Wow… I read that whole thing— up to the continued in the comments.
There was a comment in this thread about Reddit being about cynicism and the Fediverse being about authenticity (something even sweeter) and I read your mini essay and just loved it and found it whatever that sweeter word is.
What gets me about this thread are the insults from Reddit refugees who don’t understand that the only way to topple Reddit — leave it the ghost town it deserves to be — is to live this optimism and to actually be the honey we thought Reddit once was.
Everything you wrote about Reddit was spot on.
Do you remember at the beginning of the collapse they rushed a reiteration of r/ place? What a joke.
Anyway — I’m happy to join the Fediverse and Lemmy especially. I see it’s decentralized nature, and the fact we can all set up a server, as Lemme meaning: Let Me! Lemmy join. lemme participate. Lemme run an instance.