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I feel like the rest of the fediverse thinks about us a lot more than we think about them. We were here for years before most of the big Reddit-clone instances started up, and had already developed a significant site culture and norms. Many of us were ambivalent about federation in the first place, and .world and others defederating from us as a "preemptive last resort" was pretty much just funny. The hysterical propaganda about how insane and abusive we are is also funny; this is one of the friendliest and most supportive places on the internet as long as you're not a fascist. We're happy over here doing our thing away from all the Redditors.
I think a lot of the reddit clones really can't conceive that anyone was here before they were and therefore thinks it must be bots or people using multiple accounts or Putin's personal bodyguards
This is why all the accusations of us "brigading" or whatever here are amusing. We were here first, nerds.