With the BotDefense team leaving Reddit due to increasing hostility, it sure would be nice if they could find a new home in the Fediverse.

you can have accounts on multiple instances, go ahead and sign up. your info is NOT transferred, so you'll need to re-subscribe to your communities, and your posts stay on the instance you wrote them from.

you're doing it right now! 😀 how does it feel?

I started on lemmy.world but am currently writing this from discuss.online, a lemmy instance I found in the greater NYC area because that's where I'm based. It has the same access to all the communities and content that lemmy.world does and because it's nearby and has fewer users it's fast! Signing up and setting up my subscriptions only took a few minutes. I still have a lemmy.world account, but I don't need to use it all the time.

i wondered about that too, though people seem to be finding the communities and federation seems to be doing its job. it's nice seeing users from other servers actively participating. only time will tell whether it's sustainable but i think slow and steady growth is a-ok for real community building

Many people have suggested that the people most likely to leave Reddit because of the recent issues are in that 10% of posters and commentators.

yes, this is my question! i feel like it is creators/participators are the most likely to see the red flags early and do something about it.

and going...

What are some of your favorite communities?

That's awesome! 😀 Hello and welcome!

yes it is, did it work?

Lemmy should not try to be a carbon copy of a 20 year-old VC-funded for-profit site with hundreds of millions of users. Lemmy should establish its own identity and play to its strengths.

Hello and welcome! :)

absolutely, talk to !selfhosted@lemmy.world

It’s ok to say hello 😀

Cool, which city?

i'm sorry to hear that; have you found lemmy more friendly and welcoming?

try again, let me know what you posted. agreed, don't take this stuff too seriously, have fun :)

Be the change I want to see in the world, I guess?

yes! post something today :)

Worked out ok this time 😀

that'd be "participator", the "9" in 90-9-1. thank you for your service 🫡