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

  • SkinOfAnOrange@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    11 years with Reddit in September here.

    As some other people have mentioned, I have missed that rawness of old internet forums, and I feel like this brings it back in some way. Which I love, as Reddit was becoming too corporate, which has obviously been their downfall.

    I feel as I can be more active on here, though I became more and more active on Reddit as time went on, but didn’t really enjoy it.