People didn’t leave reddit because of the bots, lemmy was created in opposition to reddit’s openly nazi ownership and leadership; as well as a way to ensure no single reddit-style platform can be dominated by a few superusers that impose far-right moderation policies and tactics in order to limit discussion and artificially reduce left-wing political discussion. The fact Epstein’s owner, Ghislaine Maxwell was a power-mod for multiple default subs tells you exactly who owns and runs reddit and that mods there aren’t exactly neutral unpaid members of the community.