The second that pig boy said that Reddit’s “corpus of data” was his to sell.

The fuckstain showed that the people that were the corpus of data were irrelevant to him, and every decision they’ve announced since that moment has driven that message home.

The population isn’t really bigger any more. It’s propped up by bots and reposts so much that the actual humans get buried outside of niche subs.

Here, the chances of talking to a bot are lower, and (barring newcomers that haven’t adapted to the culture yet) most of the people range from neutral to genuinely good.

A bigger population doesn’t help anyway. Most people in the world are stupid, or cruel, or just assholes. The bigger a given platform gets, the more you run into those because it’s a numbers game.

A smaller platform can manage to self regulate and, bluntly, drive the serious assholes away. But once things get big enough, the assholes take over because there’s too many of them to drive out.

I’m not saying lemmy doesn’t have assholes. I’m just saying they don’t dominate the discourse, and tend to have a high turnover rate.

That’s why I’m on lemmy.