It’s all helping raise awareness, even if it’s just in small increments.

I was on Reddit for 17 years. It was my home on the Internet. I used to go to Reddit meetup days and hang out with other Reddit nerds. It’s natural for people to have sentimental feelings about something that’s been such a big part of so many of our lives.

I haven’t been back since the Lemmy exodus, except by accident a few times. But I miss what it was.

my mom said i am special, like a snowflake

There’s no harm in leaving a forwarding address when you leave a place.

Additionally, it’s a common practice for some users of reddit and things like it to click over to the profile of someone who posted something you find interesting; why not check out what else they post or are into? Now whenever someone clicks OP’s profile the first thing they’ll see is this, and that’s potentially of value to someone over there who hasn’t yet checked things out over here. Old reddit posts and commments still get new engagement coming in all the time even years after the fact, so something like this can actually reach folks.

There’s one obscure sub I was active on that I still feel bad not reading, as I was a fairly experienced in the topic contributor. There are most likely a few folks on there noticing my absence including the mods. I just haven’t been back once since June. I knew feel like maybe I should have said something.

They wanted an excuse to post their Karma

I’ll either delete my entire account or if possible replaceme all my posts (12 years worth) with “GOTO LEMMY!”

Yeah. Fuck that place. I left and never went back (intentionally). No ones gonna miss me. No one over there cares that I left. Fuck em.