I have (maybe naive) hope that the logistics of federation might help stave off enshittification longer than other places before, since the “platform” no longer controls the content.

Outside of lemmy.ml migrating to a new server under load and Beehaw decederating, everything seems to work smoothly for me.

I personally know I don't want any server by itself to become deddit or twatter popular but I hope the fediverse at least attracts similar numbers of good people.

I believe there's a substantial number of people who found large platforms banal and toxic, so they might have been refraining from participating.

I know I was avoiding Instagram but now I'm interested in trying out pixelfed for example.

Oh yeah, Back on reddit I never checked the notifications on my comments. I liked giving the advice but got terrible anxiety when someone answered because I knew there was a fifty-fifty chance of someone flying off the handle. Making it even harder, english ain't my native language and from time to time if Im tired I mess up.

In here people have been so nice, even as Im learning and messing up how to work this platform.

I miss my niche chill subs that I don’t think I’ll ever see come here, as they were already small on Reddit so I don’t imagine enough people will be “here” to make it a viable community. But I don’t miss browsing popular subs and all the top comments being the same jokes, often literally just the same joke? I know all of Reddit isn’t the same group but it’s kind of funny Reddit as a whole mocked things like “the narwhal bacons at midnight” but then would be ok with other, newer, repeat gags just because they effectively said “hey we’re a part of the same thing and I/we show that by all proving we ‘get’ the joke”.