Evenin’. I’m doing alright, aside from being tired of all the chaos that’s happened these past three months.
I’m one of the many people coming to Lemmy from Reddit. I made a Mastodon account back when Twitter went to shit (kolektiva, to be precise), so I figured I may as well make one for here.
First post! I’m in Minnesota. I’m too old to understand the federated stuff very well and am having a confusing learning curve here and on Mastodon. I just know it’s time to get away from social media with shareholders attached, so here I am. Every day is some new horror, but also every day, here I am, trying to learn something new.
Indiana here, 40 trans woman/mom figure Doing pretty OK despite everything
if you don’t see a community you are looking for, create it.
First post here. Thanks for showing me the way.
Welcome!
I’m freely up voting things without repercussion. weeeeeeeeeeee
Since this place has midwest in the name, and the main mod is from Ohio, I’m gonna roll some dice here. If you happen to be anywhere near northeast Ohio, There’s a group in Cuyahoga Falls called “Meaningful Conversations Akron” that can be found on FB and meets every Saturday morning at 9:30 AM. They leverage principles of interfaith spirituality to stay focused on the sort of unity which is necessary as a goal in order to even begin winding down the division that dragged us here.
The old stickied post suggested going out and making friends in person. That effort is how I found that group. It’s been really good for me.
Doing pretty well! At this point it’s been over a year since I came over in the third-party app exodus and it’s been great. Haven’t really looked back all that much.
I’m glad to have picked this instance for my main account since it’s local to me, isn’t heavy handed with defederation (I like to watch the crazies from a safe distance) and performance has generally been good.
Outside of Lemmy things are pretty chill, no major complaints and my birthday is on Saturday, so it should be a good weekend :)
So did anything in particular trigger the influx of new users? Just curious. I’m another one of those people that came from Reddit during the API bullshit in 2023.
For me, it was the upcoming news of paid subreddit access that finally pushed me over to retry this place.
Like you have to pay to join certain subs? Gross.
Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says - we don’t know for sure what it’ll be, but it’s just generally not a good sign.
I deleted my 11 year account when they restricted API access, but capitulated and came back. Updoot restrictions and two 3 day bans made me close up shop and come over for good. I loved reddit, but will never go back again.
My understanding is that it’s due (at least in part) to some pretty aggressive censorship that’s been going on over there. Especially with regard to Luigi and related topics.
I’m also curious to hear if I’m wrong or if there’s other stuff at play too
That’s precisely why I’m here. I deleted my Reddit account a few days ago, after I got several subreddit bans for upvoting Luigi related posts/comments that had no violent context. Just the name. One of them was a picture of the actual Nintendo character. After that I was like “fuck it, I’m done”.
Fuck Spez. Free Luigi.
Yeah, this was the last straw for me. Sorta embarrassed it took me this long to ditch Reddit, I should have done it as soon as the API was killed
I’m doing as well as can be, also, first post. I saw Kentucky was “added” to the midwest as a community and said, “let’s make an account” - glad to get away from reddit. Honestly, I keep seeing the sticky post to go make friends, and with spring in KY, I’ve been going on walks to the park. So hello Lemmy, thanks for having me.
I think Oklahoma has a community on here too. We judge, but in a polite Midwestern way.
I’m new here. What’s up with the frequent use of the word “rule” in post titles?
The rules for the various 196 communities state that if you interact with the community, you have to post a meme, or at least something before you “leave.” Shoehorning “rule” into the title is a high-effort way to indicate a low-effort post. Such is the mystery of 196.
Before Blaze shows up to funnel people to his 196 sub, all 196 communities are inclusive and people should contribute to whichever ones they feel welcome in.
Don’t let users identifying as sonic characters bully you into exclusively using the spaces they contol.
