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.

Is it federated?

If not, it’s not useful.

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

It doean’t even say who runs the site on the “about” page. The privacy policy also seems lacking. Not sure what to think of it yet.
That also doesn’t work at all without javascript, not even showing anything, is off-putting

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.