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That was a hard decision for me to make, but once I did it... I haven't looked back since. I hope my friends there come join the Fediverse someday though.
There was one community of people I really got to know well. Like all of them. I remembered all their usernames by heart and their avatars. We would have a daily chat thread and the community was private. None of knew who each other were but we all shared details about our personal lives, you know like stories from our day or news events we wanted to discuss. Sometimes we just vented. It was great, we all really cared about each other and supported each other. I grabbed a copy of a photo where one of the users stitched all our Reddit avatars together before I deleted my account.
It's going to be hard to find a replacement for that but I am really starting to see some awesome new communities and it makes me hopeful.
That sounds awesome. How did you find that the first time around?
I started a talking to someone from another community who invited me there. They didn't invite me at first but overtime I kind of became friends with that user and they asked me if I would be willing to hang out there.
I feel very much the same way.
In 2016 I was coming out of a nasty depression. I wound up falling into a smaller subreddit and even became a ‘cool kid’ with a group of folks from it. We spun up a group chat and became very good friends - to the point of sharing our lives, meeting each other, and in my case - I started dating someone from the chat, and she moved halfway across the country to live with me. She is my forever person.
Last week, I was thinking about what had been lost in the 10+ years of comments and posts that I had either overwritten or deleted. So much of my life was shared there. And so much of my future will be determined by experiences there. I legitimately cried.
But change is inevitable, and we’ll always make the best of it.
Prior to deleting my account I filtered my comments from that subreddit for that reason. I mean, over time all of them will eventually forget but if even one goes back one day, I’m happy I left something there.