I’ve been on Lemmy and off Reddit since RIF died. Hope it grows, but so far it doesn’t replace the reason I used reddit. The frontpage/hot posts are similar and even better than Reddit. But I never cared about those on Reddit anyway, they were mostly junk content that I didn’t care about. Reddit was great because you could find a highly active niche community for ANYTHING. Find a new show you like? There’s a subreddit with deep discussions of every episode, and fan theories about hidden details. Are you a scientist with a specific field who wants to stay up to date on new research in your field? Well the subreddit for your field is filled with other scientists discussing newly published research.
If course I don’t expect Lemmy to be able to do that immediately. That requires a huge userbase and years of time building these small communities. Hope Lemmy can do it, pissed that Reddit already did it and now is trying to ruin it
I work on AI research. I’ve been trying to explain it to people as an improv actor that takes suggestions from the audience. It just plays along with the prompt you give it. It’s not an expert, it’s just an actor playing a role.