Is it federated?

If not, it’s not useful.

I liked it briefly when I logged in but as someone on reddit pointed out, the owner encouraged others to astroturf bringing new users to the site which feels kinda icky given the way other users have also bashed lemmy alongside it.

I use it sometimes. Apart from the non-federated aspect, there is a cultish mentality in some users there, which I find very annoying.

Seems pointless to switch to a different closed-source, centralized platform. Why would this be any different from Digg or Reddit? Switching to a federated system is the only way to make sure that cycle doesn’t repeat.