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18 hours agoI’m more of a deserter than a refugee. My first Lemmy account must be 5 or 6 years old at this point; I was there in the background when the magic was written 😛. Over time, my activity on reddit gradually decreased, and I stopped using it some months before the API exodus.
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The devs were far more accessible, and new server admins would troubleshoot issues with the newly implemented federation thingy with them (yup, it wasn’t always there!). And they’d make a sort of introduction post for their server, asking to be federated. Yeah, there was a kind of simplicity that’s been lost the more people got in.
It was also feasible to read an entire day worth of posts in less than an hour 😅