Word. This is fun. Tons of jank but it doesn’t detract from the experience, but merely an interesting part of it (least right now).

I sort of had an intuition that the people I want to talk to, the people I enjoyed talking to over there, would also be the ones who made the choice to come here.

Let the journey begins.

mostly a lurker here so far but it seems the comunity is developing well.

Pretty awesome to be part of something new and growing.

True

I, for one, will not be missing the Reddit ads.

The reason is federation. People actually happen to be pretty good at holding each other accountable and self-regulating when there isn't a central authority deciding what is and isn't acceptable. Bad actors naturally gravitate toward the instances that welcome them, and then the rest of us defederate from those instances to maintain the peace. Those bad instances then stagnate or fizzle out from the inactivity.

On centralized social media, what stays and goes isn't dictated by the community but a handful of people at the top, and troublemakers are often given a bigger platform than they would have had otherwise.

Mastadon is a lot bigger and older than Lemmy is, and yet it still has the same vibe as this place.

Newbie here after RIF went to Valhalla, I really hope this place grows and develops and people stay. I am enjoying it so far it reminds me of ol' forum days and Reddit of old, maybe I'm just being nostalgic but I just want this to work well and hope it's not just a short lived influx!

I'm on kbin, but such is the beauty of federation

That's just the Fediverse. It's magical mostly because everyone in it is just committed to being so awesome. <3