I'll have to figure out where to do that, it sounds like what I'm looking for. (Edit: Well, that was easy. Found it in the settings. Love that it's so simple.) I finally decided to let my reddit account drift off into the void a couple weeks ago, it was really hurting my mental health. I'd had the account for over 10 years and have high 6-figure post and comment karma, but like... I recognize that doesn't really mean anything, but the way it's gamified, whenever I'd make a controversial post or say something stupid or wrong and get even -1 karma, it'd ruin my day in a serious way. I felt tied to the platform, like I constantly had to "perform".

I was getting kinda lonely after leaving, since I also don't really have any social media outside an instagram that I just post my photos on, which is when I stumbled across Lemmy. I am feeling really nostalgic for the old days of forums, but sadly it seems outside super niche communities, forums are dead.

Anyway, very long story short, I'm a reddit castaway looking to just chill and talk with a smaller community of strangers for a bit. This casual conversation community seems nice.