Imagine if I didnt join fedi. It was on my bucket list for like 2 years before I eventually did. I didn't expect me to fit in. I expected to be just as ignored and id forget about it soon enough. Sure it would be opensource and decentralized but id be just as unseen. Thats why I put it off for so long cuz it was effort and stuff and I figured it was gonna be the same.
Fedi is made great by a lot of things but a huge part is that u can have 0 followers and if u post stuff people like then someone will see it for sure and probably interact with it in some way.
@ChaosKitsune I had a bit of a rocky start when I finally jumped from Reddit. I landed over in kBin and that was and still is a big mess. It wasn't until I migrated over to this side of Fedi that I had the experience that you just highlighted.
For the first time I really feel like my peers in this space are my actual friends and not using me to promote their own interests are social media presence. I love hanging out here because all we do is chill, post memes, artwork, personal projects and make each other feel better.
It's literally the best place on the internet :ablobcatrainbow:
My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:
<span style="color:#323232;">>>> import random
</span><span style="color:#323232;">>>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)])
</span><span style="color:#323232;">'e0qdk'
</span>
I have that literally in my kbin profile, but it’s not on my reddthat one. (I think I tried to copy it there originally when I set up the account but ran into some issue with Lemmy’s UI – been long enough that I forget what exactly.)
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