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/[email protected]

https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance

[email protected]

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

  • Beardliest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    My only concern is that I seem to have “Subscribe Pending” for a lot of different communities. Not sure what that means and not sure what the limits are for that.

    Overall, I prefer it here over reddit. I think I will actually be more active.

    • dystop@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I read somewhere that it’s a bug and means you’re probably subscribed.

      FWIW, I’m seeing posts from “Subscribe Pending” communities in my feed.

      • Beardliest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I tried that a couple of times and it’s still showing pending. I can give it a go again today.

    • KlaymoreEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      might be that the servers are getting overloaded with all the new people joining, especially lemmy.ml where I’ve had that happen a couple times

    • squid010@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same! If you figure that out and remember, please let me know!

      Sometimes I sub and then unsub and that seems to do it, but it will only work for certain instances.