she/her, queer anarchist and enjoyer of video games, books, music, cool maps, history, cats, and probably other things.

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I feel it. I followed a lot of innocuous bullshit, random stuff, and most of my comments followed suit. It’s been a long while since I felt like I could have a conversation on most parts of Reddit. There are some niche communities, and things that don’t work well without a lot of users, that I’ll miss, but I’m mostly glad to be not spending so much time on Reddit.

    I do hope that the open-source nature of Lemmy, and the fediverse in general, will foster a better relationship between developers/admins and users/mods, and more development towards what the mods and users want and need out of the platform. I do have optimism for the future of such an open platform, although I do remember a time when Reddit’s software was open-source too.

    I can’t personally speak for the accessibility issue, so I don’t know if it’s a problem here, but open-source should definitely help with that too.


  • Reddit will continue to grow and change, and it will get worse and worse for longtime users who remember the earlier years. I’m happy to abandon ship now so that it’s no longer my problem at least.

    Exactly how I feel. I don’t think this will have a huge effect on the overall number of people on Reddit, but I certainly do think it will have a large effect on the moderation quality, and overall content/discussion quality. Reddit is, and has been, on its way to joining the homogenized social media group, that a lot of us were on Reddit to avoid.