I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I’m feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how other’s are taking it.

For me, I feel a bit of a sore hollow spot for what reddit used to be and watching it implode is not fun for me.

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    I found similar when I left my country of birth, that many people don’t keep in touch, even if I tried to maintain a connection. Out of sight, out of mind.

    What did you bond over with your friends?

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        Third Culture Kid

        Wow just knowing that it’s so common an experience that there’s a name for it is comforting.

        Thank you so much for sharing that.

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          Read a book about it if you have time or a few articles.

          I read the big one (Pollock, Van Reken) and it was honestly scary how well it described some parts of my personality, and the challenges I was dealing with in my life.

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            Thanks, added it to my to-be-read list. My preference is fiction these days, but I’m not above mixing in an academic book every now and then

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        That sounds nice. Similarly I’ve been in a book club for about two years now that was started on Reddit.

        Although we haven’t read a book in months, we still meet virtually every week, so I guess we’re just friends now.

        The ultimate test of these kinds of groups seems to be whether they can survive transplantation from one social medium to another. I wonder how my little book club would fare if there was a schism over using discord…

        Maybe there is a board here that would help you set up something like that? It can’t hurt to look around and put out some feelers.