Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.
My account is 3 years and 5 months old. I joined Lemmy before it was cool, because I like open source things. In fact, when I joined, Lemmy.ml was the main/recommended instance. Now you all hate it.
Lemmy used to be a barren wasteland of content. Now it is not. I’ve noticed no further changes. The tankies, the in-fighting, the debates about whether to de-federate with instances, the arguing over whether it’s becoming too much like reddit - it’s all been here as long as I can remember.
Hated for good reason, as you point out in your second paragraph partly for tankies and China/Russo propaganda bots.
Though it raises a question for cases like yours: is account migration to another instance possible?
Do you think it’s fair to ask someone to migrate their account just because you hate pro-China and/or pro-Russia bots, assuming they exist?
Yes. It’s the same reason I migrated my party banner from Republicans to Democrats over the decades. No longer wanted to be associated with the prevailing winds of those coalescing beneath it.
But also, I didn’t ask them to move; rather, I posited the question of whether or not they could.
Well, good luck asking for it.
Don’t know, don’t care. This honestly isn’t my main account anymore, but I switched to it to reply to this post to prove I’m not lying about how long I’ve been here.