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It gets better once you find interesting subs. I think it scratches the same itch and I plan to continue using it. I do have some concerns about the community, however. I guess I was hoping it would be less of an echo chamber and have a more nuanced and in depth discussion.
I haven't really found that and I think it's more or less the same as reddit most of the time.
I also miss browsing through the short video subs like /r/crazyfuckingvideos once a week or so just to see some crazy things.
However, I do find there is actually pretty good discussion on tech stuff and you do find some geopolitics/ political discussion if you read through some of the ideological drudgery a bit.
So all in all, I think Lemmy so far has been a positive experience for me and I'm committed to remaining here for the foreseeable future. At the end of the day - it's an open source decentralized community. I'll put up with a lot of shit just because of that. No chance I'd be going back to reddit.
For technical discussions I still find Hacker News much better than both Lemmy and Reddit.