Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
I’m still getting used to the whole “instance” thing but I think that a FOSS, decentralized thing has a better chance to stick around a while.
It might be easier to just think of it like email, or newsgroups.
It’s exciting to think any one of us can learn Rust and contribute code. These are the social media platforms of the future