I like the fediverse. It reminds me of the old school Internet days - IRC, usenet, etc., before all the corporate tech bros muscled in. I’d prefer for it to stick, but I have some fears about it. I hope everything will be ok.

I do feel a little lost looking for my old Reddit communities, but I keep hoping we’ll just cross paths again. For now, I’m just sitting back and enjoying the firehose.

Yep, way more. Much to the detriment of my work.

I’m excited for all the new apps. It’s like the Wild West of app development lol.

I understand of course that Lemmy was around for a long time before me, but I still feel like an OG for some reason.

I’m on less as there’s less content of interest to me and I’m not a zealot. This is just another social media platform.

Yes very very much; there’s so much new stuff and this is a good opportunity to expand my interests and not end up having half my subs be drama subs and read AITA until I lose my soul. But also because I’m trying to make a determined effort to be a responsible community member and post actual sentences and engage with others so it becomes a habit. Will any of those sentences make sense? No, and stop pressuring me. Being coherent is an entirely separate goal and many steps from here so back the hell off, okay?

Hello fellow humans, I am normal, friendly, and sane!

I think if I’m honest, I’ve replaced one source of procrastination with another (though I’m proud of everyone here for voting with their feet and rejecting what reddit has become).

But it is definitely a nice thing to see day by day the sub count for each community growing so rapidly… though I do fear for Ruud’s sanity! I cannot suggest strongly enough that we all donate where possible. He’s doing this in his spare time from what I gather.

I think we need to get used to the idea that social media can’t be free anymore, because when it’s free, that means WE are the product

Speaking of little republicans, r/tinytrumps can stay on reddit. It was funny at first but got very repetitive.

Definitely not haha! But that’s not a bad thing. Lemmy feels less addicting.

I’m excited to be here since it feels like the old reddit community, which I missed over time. I’m just kind of tired of what reddit become as a platform and as a community. It was so nice early on, but as it gained popularity just became more toxic in various ways.

I’m actually just enjoying watching things here grow, come to life. I’m loving the energy of that. It’s so positive.

I’m on lemmy less than I used to be on Reddit because the communities I liked on Reddit are dead here. I know I don’t want to go back to Reddit, but I don’t have the time to try to build the communities from Reddit here either. So I spend less time on social media and that’s ok too.

Nope. This website has a very specific demographic and a ton of more “casual”, non-tech/internet topics see zero activity in here, for the simple reason that there’s virtually no interest or demand for them amongst the Fediverse users.

Deleting my Reddit account made me look for already stablished forums on certain topics tho.

I’ve found that I’m checking Kbin a lot less than I checked the other place, but I’m participating more because there’s a lot less toxicity and hostility here (at least for the time being).

Not really. I was the first two weeks of the Reddit blackout, but not I just use lemmy on my lunch break, exactly like I did when I still went to Reddit.