It's not even about the passive site owner. Reddit has a simple and straightforward site interface and a mobile app. After all, I didn't sign up to save the Apollo developer's business, I wanted a time-killer with a consulting function for the issues I was interested in. Lemmy...an old-timer on fediverse told me today that you have to have multiple accounts to be comfortable using Lemmy. Somewhere he's right because Lemmy is wildly infuriating after using reddit. Apparently everyone likes having random instances and comments show up in their feed, but not what you signed up for. Everyone likes that after the mass migration...I'm tired of retelling the same thing a thousand times. Saidit is still more or less. The interface is old Reddit style, some window with someone's chat in some community. It's cool and maybe in a year I'll like it all, but now it's incomprehensible and annoying. Also annoying is the silence. Not a lot of people in the reddit alternatives.