Welcome. I think the resurgence is some of us are bored with having a few major platforms regurgitate the same content and ads while gobbling up our lives as content. I personally miss the exploration of finding a new, open, and public service. Lemmy seems interesting, newish, and cumbersome enough that I’m excited to see how it evolves. It’s also rekindled my curiosity from the BBS days, the beginning of email and web browsers, when Usenet was full of FAQs and everyone wanted to share things they knew and were good at. They weren’t “better days”, things were hard to figure out, there are always bad actors, but it felt like a more tiered sharing to me. So like they always like to yell on large platforms, if you don’t like how the platform works/behaves create your own. So this is as good a time as any for us to create a new community the way we like it.

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