Post on /r/RedditAlternatives painting Lemmy in a bad light, most of the comments counter that Lemmy is a better place than Reddit

Yeah, Reddit probably just messed up with the numbers

Just the usual case of survivorship bias. The long term subscriber base of "we need to go elsewhere" gathering points is mostly comprised of people that either don't vibe with the majority destination for whatever reason, disagree that there was ever a reason to leave in the first place, or don't actually want to leave but just want to complain about the current place.