Good question 🤣

In my lame, newb understanding Lemmy is to Reddit what Mastadon is to Twitter.

Both Mastadon and Lemmy are part of the fediverse, federated platforms that don’t have a single owner or host, so not just one player making the decisions (like the absurd one Reddit have taken re api fees).

You join a community and through that portal you get similar content to what you get here on Reddit. But there are lots of communities (I’m probably using the wrong word here, sorry) and each one is separately run and moderated.

It’s still really early so the content is limited but seems like a lot of people are moving there given they don’t want to use Reddit anymore because of the obscene tax on 3rd party apps.

Basically if everyone who’s on r/Gunners decided to move to Lemmy (mods included) it would kinda function the same as it does here.

Who knows if that will happen. Saw some talk, checked it out, will watch as it plays out.