• j4k3@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    I want to actively build community and engage with people here; to make this place home. That’s how it changed me. I’m not a lurker or passive. It has made positive improvements to my reading and cooking, along with bending my language more positively. I’ve also further grown in my appreciation of diversity.

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      9 months ago

      I want to actively build community

      That was the key for me. To take one of my favorite communities (“bande dessinée,” i.e. Euro comics) and create a version on Lemmy eight months ago. It’s taken a load of work (usually daily), and sometimes I get really discouraged, but overall it locked me in to the FV.

      Also, you might have to burn me at the stake for saying this-- I still visit Reddit because of the far more prolific content, and do have worries & reservations about the tankie founders of Lemmy. But so far, so good. The more the FV grows, the more I’ll have no problem leaving Reddit behind.