Hi everyone! We have hit the entirely arbitrary threshold of 100 subscribers*, so I figured a post was in order!

First, thanks to all of you for joining in on this experiment. I expect that we may see some more users as some of the Reddit–>Lemmy apps like Sync and Boost come on line too, and bring some users with them. I appreciate the posts and engagement from many of you. We’ve had a few good match threads, even if the matches have been… less than stellar. Give it a try and join us!

Second, please feel free to post! Many of us (me included) are habitual lurkers, especially on big forums like Reddit. Here, though, we want to hear your voices and perspective. This feels to me more like the old days of the internet, with BBS and forums driving real discussion instead of algorithm-driven clickbait. But it’s only as good as the discussions themselves, and for discussion we need your thoughts and opinions. Consider commenting and posting, whenever something comes up.

Third, thanks to our nacent mod team, including PloKoop@lemmy.world and CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world. There hasn’t been much need to moderate so far, but please feel free to reach out to us with ideas or if any concerns come up.

Last, we probably all recognize that the stability of lemmy.world has been challenging as of late, due to the alpha stage of Lemmy and a series of DDOS/ other attacks. Being on the current-biggest Lemmy instance means that these downtimes may happen for now, as it seems to be a target for script kiddies. Most recently, this happened during the leagues cup game, disrupting our match thread. (Though it may have saved us from a pretty depressing discussion…) I know it’s less than optimal, but hopefully it’s just temporary and stability will improve over time. This thing called Lemmy is still young, after all.

Anyway, thanks again - and let’s get posting!

EBFG, coys25

* I think that this doesn’t count people on other instances, so who knows how many of us there really are!