I’ve been gone from lemm.ee for a while. Why is that? Well, for one: I’ve been quite busy. I haven’t been able to access lemmy.world on my Chromebook, so I decided to shift back to using Lemm.ee for now on here! Keep in mind, both accounts will be cross-posting, so follow whichever you see fit! Something I do, however, want to say is that I have been getting even more involved with the Fediverse nowadays, having accounts on Misskey and Mastodon/Aethy. I have been a huge fan of these sites for a while now, and - when Reddit became something that tons of people despised - I promoted Lemmy to users leaving Reddit for its API changes. I didn’t know that Lemmy was popular enough to get put on a blocklist, but, apparently, it is! That is actually a huge W for Lemmy because that means it is getting popular enough that schools are actually having to ban it. Unfortunately, this also means information that could be useful to school students are banned from their fingertips. It is incredibly sad that people see places like Reddit and Lemmy as only “social media platforms” rather than tools that students can use. I feel that trust should happen between students and teachers enough to not block an entire site from existants. That should only happen with inappropriate sites (for example: P0rn sites).

Trust your students more. They may not be the smartest tools in the shed, but when you allow them Internet access and they use it right, it can give them so much information that they wouldn't have originally had. Anyways, that’s all from me! Happy 1st of October!

Being a subreddit owner wasn’t very fulfilling

When I was a subreddit owner, it didn’t really gain any traction. I honestly had a better time working on my Discord server. At least it allowed me more options. I wasn't forced to spend money on Nitro or anything to run it, I could moderate it on my own accord, easily make friends moderaters, etc.

Reddit doesn’t want me to have that much NSFW content

Reddit is a platform that wants to make money. NSFW communities prevent Reddit from doing that due to advertisers. (This is a problem because then Reddit is giving into these companies and censoring media, which Lemm.ee doesn’t do.)

Reddit could be funded through donations, and they even have a premium feature, so I don't understand why they would do this shit to third-party APIs, especially when their website has TONS of traction! It doesn't make sense to me!

I'm a little tired from working really hard and from having an accident with my medication because of my doctor/pharmacy. Oh well, things'll get better soon, I suppose

I'm hoping this is a welcoming community! I've switched from Reddit to here purely because it values its users and privacy. It's completely open-source, and I find that admirable!

I'm a privacy enthusiast myself, so knowing a website supports privacy is amazing! I personally can't wait until Boost for Lemmy arrives! It'll be exciting to see a Reddit alternative become popular! It's inevitable, haha! I just hate the clunkiness of the Reddit official app compared to other API's, so I decided to switch. It became unusable and unappealing :/