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 removed, 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

  • dystop@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s so surprising that reddit didn’t learn from the past. There was another uproar over mod tools in the last few years.

    • mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Executive teams tend not to learn from the past because they think either:

      • “our site/product/service is different and/or indispensable” or
      • “we’ll do it differently and things will go better for us”

      When the chips fall it’s never the former and rarely the latter.