For me it’s also been 12 years and I feel the same way. I’m not exactly sad to see it go, in fact, I’m sort of happy they gave most of their users the momentum to move to something new. Using Lemmy wouldn’t be fun if was just empty, but I’m really happy how it’s all working out right now.

If you have your own instance, that is true. Otherwise, on a good instance, I’d assume the host has already taken care of linking all the communities. Especiall, because otherwise the posts won’t be aggregated.

Honestly, I’ve been waiting on a replacement for a while. They made a lot of poor choices ever since they dumped the AMA mod. Then there’s also this thing about tencent owning a big part of Reddit…