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!
https://lemmy.world/c/maliciouscompliance
EDIT: since a few people asked - I posted in this comment below why I think lemmy has a much better chance than voat did
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.
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.
I am as well. Hopefully it will bet resolved soon if it’s a bug. Not super important, but a little confusing as a user.
Yeah the woes of being an early adopter haha
I unsubbed and resubbed and it worked today
I tried that a couple of times and it’s still showing pending. I can give it a go again today.