Hello, welcome, I joined a few days ago as well, because of the same reasons too. What a coincidence.
Not really I know, lot of us came here from reddit because we don't support it anymore. And that's to be expected with latest actions reddit took exposing their greed and need for control.
Anyway each day here I see more and more content, so it seems things are going good and I love seeing it grow. So guess who's going to stay here too. Cheers.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, this no karma currency thing is awesome.