Fediverse memes

I would say "^This" in jest but didn't want to traumatize you, so wrapped it in this sentence:-). But yeah, I decided to leave Reddit for good around the time of the protests. Fortunately I had Kbin (a now-defunct alternative to Lemmy, the project carried forward by Mbin and somewhat in spirit by PieFed which I am on now) to jump to, but seriously I was going to leave all that trash regardless. I did not enjoy what it was doing to me - like how argumentative and defensive I was having to become upon saying ANYTHING at all, and more often choosing not to respond in places like r/pop(ular) bc of the feedback that would inevitably come.

The Threadiverse (threaded-style defederated forum software, currently Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed) isn't perfect, but is so much better! It requires a ton more effort to set up than Reddit did (well, Lemmy does - check out PieFed's setup wizard and you'll never look back!:-P), yet unlike corporate enshittified Reddit is worth it. Breathe the free air here!

Also an interesting article to read about the addictive effects that such platforms engender in their unwitting participants: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb .