Yeah I'm pretty bad for that. 😬
While I’m sad about the Reddit api changes. I’m also happy about them if they make Lemmy popular, I’d love to ditch Reddit altogether.
This is where I’m at too. Reddit is my last non-Fediverse social media account, and I already had some reservations about keeping it. I don’t think I’m ready to delete it just yet, unlike FB/Twitter/Instagram.
Feeling pretty seen here. I've registered 2 years now and this is my first post...
OH YEA! Love what I'm seeing
This is the way
I'm excited to see the concept of federation gaining traction. I can't describe how disappointed I was when Jabber/XMPP failed, IRC faded from relevance, and Facebook/Twitter became the way to talk to people. Now, seeing everyone here and on Mastodon, I'm finally feeling a bit hopeful again.
@argv_minus_one @MrsEaves Honestly I am so glad something like the fediverse exists. This is so much more in parallel with how I try to live my life than some top-down centralized system.
Come to think of it, I’m surprised I didn’t learn my lesson with centralization when AIM died. I just accepted it as a natural part of the tech lifecycle and found a different centralized service. But seeing the decisions and actions of these companies over the past few years - platforms I trusted - hit differently, and hit even harder when I went to look for forums and RSS and realized my backup options were dying. You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone, or pretty close to being gone. It definitely makes me want to support federation and indie web efforts - it’s much closer in spirit to the web I grew up with.
I feel like it's easier and more rewarding to comment when it's a smaller community. The problem is that I don't have anything interesting to post :/
For real, I feel more confident commenting and posting on here than I ever did on reddit
/lurk
Haha same! I've already commented here more than what I have on reddit in the past 5 years at least. And I'm not even forcing myself to comment. It just feels authentic. I feel that my voice won't be lost in the void of the internet. I agree with @Disgusted_Tadpole. Last time I had this feeling was on orkut back in the 2000s. Exciting times! :)
Me too! I'm primarily a lurker as well. I'm really enjoying Lemmy so far and hope to see it grow. :)
Post early and post often
And back to the shadows...