I never considered going back. Lemmy is forward. More power to the users and the community and less from greedy shareholders. This is the way.

Lemmy and Reddit promote engagement, discourse and even arguments… ok, especially arguments.

Mastodon feels like a list of billboards that I am disconnected from.

“Oh, that’s news”

But no one talks between eachother about anything. I almost feel like the nature of the layout of Twitter and it’s alternatives are almost by design to make the users a little more self serving.

Mastodon has every user standing on a soapbox yelling at crowds, Lemmy is more of a public forum.

Reminds me of what reddit used to be, what UBB boards used to be before that, and small irc rooms before that. Freedom, the never constant, always moving community of individuals. Some of the same people I knew on Reddit, I knew in my old Dreamcast irc and AOL days.

Shit changes, we move but we never go away. Now we’re here. Thanks for having us.