I feel this. It felt like anything I ever had to comment had been said a dozen times by the time I stumbled into a thread, so I rarely felt any need or desire to post on Reddit. Here, I almost feel obligated to, just to keep the threads going. Part of me is excited to see the activity keep picking up here, but part of me is enjoying actually feeling like my boring-ass comments are worth posting, and also knowing said lame comments aren't going to get heaped with random snark. Feels like the medium size forums I used to frequent back in the 00s and early 10s.

no zing doesn't get the upvotes though!

And that's exactly what i want. So over the recycled, rehashed, reposted, or whatever that has become of almost every subreddit.

can we go back to sharing information and solutions and it being at least kind of fun

Good lord I can't imagine having had browsed reddit without an account. The default subs were always so awful/toxic. It was nice having a curated list of hobby subs and cat pics and such

You're not allowed to be mild mannered you idiot. Them's the rules. Now engage me in ill intentioned banter. We will meet at dawn.

Some will make their way here, there are alot of tankies on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml who somehow love Russia and China

Oh, believe me, that happens here, too, and it happens in the exact same places it happened most on Reddit (communities dedicated to politics and specific pieces of software).

For instance, the community surrounding ReVanced here seems to be just as toxic as it was on Reddit.

Now that's just Australia.