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Are you an "expat" from Reddit or are you here to stay and help Lemmy grow and be its own thing?
Answer that.
He's here... why does it matter?
I came here because my favorite app, Sync for Reddit, died like the other 3rd party apps. I still use reddit some because the groups I was a part of there don't really exist here, or not with much volume anyway. Ketorecipes for instance... if I want to see new recipes frequently, I gotta go to reddit, but I wouldn't if their content was being x-posted. If I post a recipe it'll be here but in a recipes forum, like many other subject types, you're more commonly a reader than a content maker. I have no doubt the small community here will grow eventually but for now it's limited by the low subscriber/contributer count.
Can Lemmy be more/different than reddit? Sure. Can Lemmy be similar to, a replacement for and yet better than reddit? Absolutely.