hello lads and ladettes - feeling wild, wtf else should I do heavy breathing
It is a bummer to leave behind a place that I enjoyed. I met several people IRL, I got 2 Guinness World Records for Reddit Secret Santa. Countless new music from r/listentothis & r/music. Great brewery recommendations from people in the places I visit from r/beer.
Iām looking forward to find fediverse places that are just as fun & helpful.
Secret Santa was great. You never know, maybe weāll end up being able to run something similar one day, fediverse-style.
Iām from the U.S.
One of my gift exchange people were from Norway. My extended family is from Norway and I had been dying to visit.
I kept in touch with my gift person and we actually met in person in Oslo. Was a great day.
I love what Iāve experienced through reddit.
But,
#Fuck /u/spez
Iām officially out by July 1st.
Thatās amazing! Last year we tried and failed to get tickets to see the Green Bay Packers (my team) play in London, as Iād never seen them in person before. Was a bit gutting to miss out, but there was huge demand so such is life.
Commiserated with others in the Reddit thread, congratulated those who managed to get in, etc etc. Then I got a random message from a stranger, offering me free tickets.
Obviously that sounds like a scam and as a woman on Reddit youāre naturally wary of unsolicited messages anyway, but TLDR it was a real offer, we got ourselves down to London and met this amazingly generous Redditor and his wife and spent a fantastic day, er, watching my team get trashed by the Giants!
So yes, Reddit had potential for these connections that would otherwise never have happened, and Iāll definitely miss that side of it. But ultimately that was the people, not the platform itself, so I guess what Iām saying is all we need to do is build Lemmy into a place those kinds of people want to hang out.
