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Finally deleted my reddit account.
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It's a weird feeling in the beginning. For me I was the same, I realized how addicted I had become to it, almost withdrawal from it. But after a while I realized what toll the constant firehose had taken on me.
You'll notice we have less here, I view it as a good thing. Less content, but it's higher quality. I check my phone less but when I do it's less mindless scrolling. There are actual good articles.
Plus as you see I can actually chat with people here, instead the insta-hate I got on Reddit.
So overall, welcome! Let us know if you need directions :)
Ugh I know. There's always been people online who just wanna fight but reddit just seems to have got nasty. The heart has gone, used to be you got random charity drives starting in comment chains and stuff like that, I've not seen that in ages.
I'm new so would you mind giving me directions? I've noticed there's duplicate communities on different instances. Some of them don't let me join or comment, is it cos I'm not a member of that instance?
Correct, not all communities are public and federated is the word. I think you're looking for, where you can join the community from any other instance. However, we do try to do those things as public and federated so anybody can join any instance. There are multiples on different instances. It's kind of up to personal preference. Which one you like. Or honestly you can join both, for example, there are multiple movies communities and I'm a part of probably three of them