Today is my third year anniversary of joining lemmy. Time flies, feels like yesterday.

It’s been a good use of time - on the whole. Lemmy requires heavy curation to make the feed suitable, but once that is done its fairly breezy.

In year 1 I quickly gave up on any reasonable political discussion here. That helped alot.

I’ve grabbed coffee/lunch with three lemmies, all great people. the crazies don’t outnumber the normal people, but it feels like it sometimes. Joel noticed the same thing in hiring - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/

I’m hopeful for the future of lemmy, with the 1.0 software making some much needed community tools widely available.

Lemmy is a much smaller place then it was 3 years ago, it does give me a sense of community (even if i am neighbors with the crazies).

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I’m in Lemmy for five years. Initially lurking; then 2023 happened, and gave this place enough of a critical mass to let me interact more with it. So for all intents and purposes let’s say I actually joined the place roughly at the same time as you.

    Unlike you I don’t avoid the political discussion, but I curated my feed to have less of it.

    I miss some stuff from Reddit. But even without Lemmy I’m not touching that place with a 3m pole. That place was making me sick, and after those years I do notice my psychological health improved by a lot.