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I have to be honest, the fact we have an active alternative(s) to reddit at last makes this a complete success for me. I've lowkey despised reddit for years. Particularly from 2016 on when bots kind of overran the website and the front page was just filled with toxic garbage that never really went away to this day. I actually did use the revanced patch to get my RIF app working again (though I can't get my ad-less premium back unfortunately), but I've been on here far more than there. I think im just having more fun on Lemmy than I have been on reddit in years. The only reasons I hop back are for sports team specific communities (and really the game threads because I like interacting with other people watching when im watching alone). On the instance i'm on currently there are generated game threads but it hasn't got the users to make them particularly active as of yet. If that ever happens i'll happily cut off reddit for good
I'm really liking the lack of bots as well. Im hoping the sports stuff takes off here but I guess that just takes time. I'll check out that instance though. When football and hockey start up again I'd love to have gameday threads back
We've only ported over the MLB game bots over to lemmy right now (because it's the only sport in season) but we'll be porting the other major sports bots over before the season starts! One of our users created communities for all the major sports teams in preparation for this. If you'd like to mod any let me know!