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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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[–] ampcold@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

So far it has helped me have a healthier use of social media - simply because an app doesn't exists. Opening Apollo countless times in a day wasn't exactly a good thing and it resulted in mostly mindless scrolling for quickfixes of "content". Now opening a browser and going to beehaw.org is a bit more of a conscious effort and it encourages taking a bit more time to read what is being written and then come back a few hours later to check up again.