I just wanted to tell you how great you all are.

I moved to Lemmy shortly before the mass exodus from Reddit in 2023. I eventually created an instance of my own and to begin with, leaving Reddit felt like a mistake.

I could browse Lemmy’s equivalent of /r/all top-last-24-hours in about 15 minutes, so my doom-scroll time plummeted. I was better for it. However, I still yearned for the meme laughs and thought provoking comment threads of Reddit. Lemmy had them, but they were much fewer.

Fast forward to today. My instance is hosting a popular up and coming community, of which I’m honoured, even if I’m not welcome. The top-24-hour of all posts is now more than enough to satisfy my needs. I laugh at memes, I get to share posts I found on Lemmy with friends and family, I’m exposed to more cultures than just American which is a real refreshing change.

It isn’t mainstream, and I think its better for it. It has its own culture, and we are beginning to get all meta with Lemmy in-jokes which I think is both annoying and awesome at the same time (ie. Hussain memes).

Overall, I am just really happy for Lemmy and am glad to be sharing it with all of you. May the good times continue.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      Hah, I was born in the very late 80s… I know the exact generation lines between X and Millenial are somewhat contentious, but I’d probably either be a Millenial or ‘Elder Millenial’.

      … I just picked up tech stuff at a very young age, and also had a number of … not actual uncles, but ‘cool uncle’ type people in my life, guys and gals a bit older than me, but not as old as my parents… so I’ve had more exposure to the music and culture and such more particular to Gen Xers.

      Uh I guess, smell you later, bodacious, r a d i c a l ! ! ! or something rofl.