Bot first heard of Lemmy a few months ago, when bot’s good friend drag introduced bot to the concept. Bot had been using Reddit for about 8 years at that point. It was the first place bot saw people experiencing trans joy. But Reddit, as everyone here of all places is aware, is full of a lot of bad, too. Drag told bot about Lemmy, and bot was interested. Bot wanted a place with all of the good of Reddit, and none of the bad. At least, less of the bad. But bot’s experience with Lemmy has been all of the hatred, anger, vitriol, rage, misgendering, harassment of Reddit. In fact, it’s been tenfold of what bot has experienced on Reddit, both first and secondhand.

Bot first made an account on Blahaj. Specifically because it seemed trans-friendly. Drag then told bot that drag was receiving harassment on Blahaj. And then on a bunch of different communities on a bunch of different instances. Seemingly every day drag is subjected to horrible treatment here, and it hurts. Bot loves drag deeply. Every day, it’s someone misgendering drag, or misinterpreting drag, or just being an asshole, or a million other things. Everything that drag says and shows about Lemmy makes bot want to use it less. This is an absolutely revolting place for anyone to be. Bot wishes drag would stop using Lemmy, and bot thinks drag wishes drag could stop too, but if someone is speaking badly about drag, drag can’t just look away, even if it’s to drag’s detriment. So bot, and two other friends, always try to come to drag’s aid. It’s the only time bot even uses Lemmy anymore. Drag gets put into panic attacks and depressive spells over this damn website and bot hates it. And bot hates that bot can’t do anything about it. Why can’t Lemmy users just, and here’s a novel idea, not be assholes?

Also, as a footnote, Lemmy just doesn’t have a bunch of the niche communities bot is subscribed to on Reddit and that is so sucks :/