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First active day on the fediverse after 11 years on Reddit, and liking it here! (lemmy.world)
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I've been on reddit for a long, long time and i've seen all the changes that have happened in the past decade. I spent a lot of time on Reddit, and have seen the slow infestation of bots, karma whores, and guerilla marketing disguised as posts.

I'm genuinely excited for the fediverse - it seems like an actual improvement over reddit, and not just a clone. There's a learning curve, but there was one when joining reddit too.

I participated in the migration to Voat, and saw how/why it failed. I'm more optimistic about the fediverse for various reasons, and I'm dedicating my time to helping this thrive.

I was a lurker on Voat, but I'm trying to be active here. I don't like modding, but I've even created my own community here, which is saying a lot given how lazy I am. Hope to interact with y'all more!

And if you're still reading this, i hope you don't mind a shoutout to my new community, maliciouscompliance - recreated this as it was one of my favorite places to lurk on reddit!

/c/maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world

https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance

!maliciouscompliance@lemmy.world

EDIT: since a few people asked - I posted in this comment below why I think lemmy has a much better chance than voat did

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[–] SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at 26 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I find Lemmy generally more welcoming to post comments. Its likely because of the lack of bots and trolls. Let's hope they stay clear from here.

[–] 60winks@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've definitely also noticed the difference, I'd pretty much stopped commenting at all on reddit. But if feels different here, we'll, not so much different but reminds me of those older Internet message board days.

[–] Kayzels@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The difference is also on Reddit, it felt like your comment would never be seen, because there were so many. It's not the same here. Which makes commenting actually feel worthwhile.

[–] PumpedSardines@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

People are much friendlier here as well so far

[–] dystop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's partially what led to all the low effort posts.

Why bother making a thoughtful reply and get no response, when you can quickly post 20 puns and get 50 upvotes on at least 1 of them?

[–] SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at 2 points 1 year ago

Yes! Same feeling for me.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It reminds me of the early days of Reddit like 2006-2009.

[–] James_Harmony@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Never experienced that. I joined more or less just before the AMA drama, and Pao. I really do Hope Lemmy takes hold. After all, ask threads get better the more varied the people participating

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