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WTF? I don't go there for entertainment but to stay abreast of the latest scam types and procedures so that I or my friends don't become victims. They're getting insanely sophisticated out there, so I'm just as glad as I am to read of people evading scams on there as I am sorrowful for people falling prey to them, while also learning about the right and wrong steps to take.
This isn't for fun; that's what /r/FreeGameFindings is for, which is also an excellent place in its own way. I am following an equivalent Lemmy community but I'm on both just in case the Reddit one catches any titles that the other doesn't while we wait for Lemmy counterparts to grow.
So, there, two communities that aren't cesspools. To what subreddits did you go? Here are more: /r/zerowaste, /r/eatcheapandhealthy, /r/personalfinance or even /r/povertyfinance. The "cesspool" stance is subreddit-specific and I bet it's not any one of these. You have to be strict with your subreddit curation and only go to those communities and nothing else (especially never the homepage), and then it's awesome.
I'm trying to move here not because of subreddit/community issues but beef with the direction that corporate Reddit itself is going—which is fine to ditch due to that, too, but don't imply that all subreddits suck.
Maybe those are the subreddits to inhabit but they will inevitably devolve into content and moderation that serves the lowest common denominator as they grow past ~100k subscribers. That seems to be the case generally, whatever the platform. The scale motivates dysfunctional behaviour and we have to either accept it or move on. I feel better off social media in general but miss the discussion.
Well, I suppose anything can happen but they've stayed consistent since pretty much their inception... Also, Reddit used to be called a content aggregator, not social media, which was coined as such due to its non-anonymous accounts, although these boundaries have reduced over time.
Anyway, I think we can all agree that we hope Lemmy/FOSS could one day be a major contender in this playing field.