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I was a mod for a 2mill person sub with an account made in 2009 when I left 2 summers ago 😅
Not trying to one up you, honestly I get what you mean. It sounds silly but it does feel like you kind of have this energy and emotion invested in it that’s hard to give up. I’m glad you’re here now!
Unsolicited advice: Try not to fall into the trap of comparing everything to Reddit. Most of the things here are better, some things (few) are worse. You just need to find good communities.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions! People are very happy to explain how things work around here in my experience. What’s critical is finding an instance that you like and blocking communities/instances that you don’t. If you browse /all you’ll get what you expect a lot of the time lol
Beehaw and blahaj are pretty great (not everyone agrees with me on blahaj)
Yeah, so far I have no complaints. Honestly I've been pretty unhappy with reddit's design since they disabled new.reddit to use the old-new design. I don't mind how the new-new design looks, but it's just functionally worse in practically every way. The notification menu is shit now, my comments don't get posted half the time so I have to write them in notepad first, etc, collapsing threads is fiddly and inconsistent (sometimes there's a line on the left I can click, sometimes I just have to click in the empty space by the poster's name and hope for the best), etc, so I've no love lost for Reddit's shit. I spent about an hour fiddling with UIs and settled on Alexandrite and I'm pretty happy with it. I love that we have options, too, and aren't just crammed into one shit UI and told to cope.
My only real concern so far has been that there aren't a lot of active subs in some of the areas I'm interested in. I've spent a lot of time the last 5 years or so on subs like r/askaliberal, r/politicaldebate, r/debatereligion, r/debatecommunism, r/anarchism, etc, and I've looked around a bit and haven't really seen any good debate subs for either politics or religion. I've no interest in creating one myself and dealing with that headache tho, so. shrug
As for instance, I just joined lemmy.world since it seemed large and official, but then, yeah, I've been browsing /all and having to block sub after sub that I'm not interested in to clean my feed up. Not sure if there's a better way to go about that.
Honestly it’s as good a way as any