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Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.
Try to remember that a lot of engagement on reddit nowadays is bots. Even if they seem like humans. How Lemmy is now is how reddit felt back in 2008.
Is this to be Lemmy's future? I tend to believe there's no practical way to distinguish between real users and bots.
It's nice at the moment because it's new, but it seems ripe for the astroturfing. The bots are on the way.
The fact that lemmy is open source will ensure that sooner or later someone will develop a solution to the problem if it gets too bad.
The motivation of the lemmy developers is actually to develop a good platform. Unlike reddit where the only and sole motivation is money, that makes a huge difference.