I know there are a lot of us who came here from Reddit, so I kinda want to know why and how you fellas got here, and from where.
Bonus points if you explain why you're excited about Lemmy and the Fediverse, or, alternatively, share why your worried or annoyed at Lemmy and the Fediverse.
I'll go first: I was really tired of putting Reddit at the end of every Google search, and so I decided that I'd probably get better results from the same crowd of people (techie, open-source privacy geeks like myself lol) from the Fediverse. I originally wanted to join /kbin (not sure if that's how it's formatted) but I noticed that they didn't have an Android app, so I went with Lemmy for now until kbin has an app I can use. I struggled to decide what instance I wanted to use, but eventually decided to join Lemdro.id because, well, I enjoy android I guess. (And it doesn't really matter) I'm excited to see what happens with the whole Threads thing, as well as the Fediverse at large, considering the massive growth most platforms are experiencing at the moment. It sounds corny, but I feel like I'm a part of a new chapter in the Internet and the world's history, you know? I mean I'm not exactly an early adopter, but I'm earlier than everyone after me, you know? I am worried about the same social issues that plagued reddit appearing here, which would make me sad. I just don't want to see the same political discourse on the Fediverse, because otherwise, what actually sets us apart from regular vanilla reddit, then?
(Edit) Sorry for the confusion, I didn't mean for reddit-migration stories specifically, I just wanted to talk about how we all got here!
Right after spez's petulant AMA, I thought I should take a look around at alternative forums, since that AMA wasn't a good sign of things to come. I didn't have an explicit goal of moving - I just wanted to see what options were out there.
I fairly quickly ran across mentions of and links to kbin and lemmy. I was already familiar with Mastodon, but it hadn't much impressed me (though Twitter never much impressed me either, so that was no surprise). Kbin and lemmy sounded more up my alley though - more traditional forum structure rather than the sort of microblogging thing of Mastodon/Twitter.
So I checked it out
Then I just... never left.
Cool! I also kinda miss the forum-style websites as well, I think it's way better than a discord server for managing a community.