Today is my third year anniversary of joining lemmy. Time flies, feels like yesterday.

It's been a good use of time - on the whole. Lemmy requires heavy curation to make the feed suitable, but once that is done its fairly breezy.

In year 1 I quickly gave up on any reasonable political discussion here. That helped alot.

I've grabbed coffee/lunch with three lemmies, all great people. the crazies don't outnumber the normal people, but it feels like it sometimes. Joel noticed the same thing in hiring - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/

I'm hopeful for the future of lemmy, with the 1.0 software making some much needed community tools widely available.

Lemmy is a much smaller place then it was 3 years ago, it does give me a sense of community (even if i am neighbors with the crazies).