Dear Faye

I personally wish there were more communities - it’s kind of difficult for me to navigate at times when looking for communities especially if they exist in another instance, but otherwise, I have definitely replaced Reddit with this site. I just lurk on Reddit now, don’t upvote or downvote, and just read some stuff that I can’t find over here on my desktop, but here - I am actively engaging. It does feel more chill, and kind of reminds me of Old Internet somehow and I really like how so many people are coming together too to fix bugs and improve the QOL.

Smaller communities, more intimate experiences, and overall, the people you’d see here are most likely who won’t accept or allow what Reddit now stands for.

I don’t feel bad that a considerable amount of them are indifferent to this plight. If they don’t care Reddit has been screwing over its users and has a very tone-deaf approach to this problem, they’re not the kind of people you want around anyway, and there’s nothing that will ever change their minds because they never had the empathy to understand the very root of this problem.

They can stay there. I’d rather be here without their gate-keeping, their negativity, their trolling, and their constant Reddit’s ass-kissing.

While a part of me doesn’t think this will last forever, it’s nice to be a part of a growing community in which you were a part from the relatively beginning (of an exodus, if we’ll be more specific about it). It makes people feel more involved and closer to each other, and see each other beyond just being a random name or a number or a statistic. Honestly, the fact that there isn’t a million eyes looking right now and scrutinizing every word I say gives me more confidence to simply… comment. Put myself out there. Like what I’m doing now. I’ve probably commented more in the past two days than I have from years on Reddit.

And I feel like even if it does get bigger (maybe not exponentially; I honestly doubt Reddit will lose a lot of people as some people just don’t care for change. Look at Twitter :/ ), I feel like the fact I’ve been here from when it was in its infancy to whatever point it may become in the future would give me the courage to keep expressing myself.

Just my two cents!

Now we take the challenge to explore the world unknown and create quality content or initiate conversations…

Or we can just lurk again. Either way, Lemmy’s fun so far! Also created our own instance that will hopefully help our friends understand the Fediverse better.

I’ll be using both - Reddit because of habit, and mostly to just lurk. I won’t upvote/downvote or contribute anything - it can’t be debated that it’s still a treasure trove of knowledge. But I’ll be actively contributing here on Lemmy for sure because I want this to be the next home :)

Mass Effect fan here! I’m just about to head to the IFF on Mass Effect 2! Great ride so far :D

And I thought they wouldn’t go any lower. It’s disgusting how far they’re willing to go - it’s like they’re so eager to prove us right.