I just wanted to tell you how great you all are.

I moved to Lemmy shortly before the mass exodus from Reddit in 2023. I eventually created an instance of my own and to begin with, leaving Reddit felt like a mistake.

I could browse Lemmy's equivalent of /r/all top-last-24-hours in about 15 minutes, so my doom-scroll time plummeted. I was better for it. However, I still yearned for the meme laughs and thought provoking comment threads of Reddit. Lemmy had them, but they were much fewer.

Fast forward to today. My instance is hosting a popular up and coming community, of which I'm honoured, even if I'm not welcome. The top-24-hour of all posts is now more than enough to satisfy my needs. I laugh at memes, I get to share posts I found on Lemmy with friends and family, I'm exposed to more cultures than just American which is a real refreshing change.

It isn't mainstream, and I think its better for it. It has its own culture, and we are beginning to get all meta with Lemmy in-jokes which I think is both annoying and awesome at the same time (ie. Hussain memes).

Overall, I am just really happy for Lemmy and am glad to be sharing it with all of you. May the good times continue.

Hey guys, I told one of my mates this story, they mentioned you might like to hear it here.

Before this pandemic, I was running a home brew adventure with some friends, and a couple of strangers and we were having a a blast. It was me, 5 adventurers and our Rogue's Gf (who we'll call Silent) who wanted to watch and learn but didn't feel she could play.

Now Silent had a really bad stutter, and I don't mean bad like she stuttered on every few words but you could understand her, I mean it took her 3 minutes to say 2 words. Because of this, she felt she couldn't really play which is a shame. She would normally watch and then text her boyfriends or me some questions.

But hey we gotta make sure she is involved, so I gave her a character sheet and some spare paper and Silent ended up designing a bard name Baroness Hammer lute with a +10 to Performance (You'll never guess what her instrument was). Now as our sessions continue, I found out that while Silent cannot speak clearly, when she sings, she is essentially clear as day. She could sing entire songs with maybe a slight falter if she has to say 'Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious' and she can 'sing speak' (if that's the right term)

The group are more than happy to have her join in the game so myself and her bf suggest that she plays as the Baroness, but that her character has a curse that makes it she can only sing, she cannot speak normally also we had to nerf that +10 bonus). We ended up calling it 'The Divorce Curse' after her character divorced her husband.

She's happy as a clam and two sessions later, she's literally playing a drum solo on the BBEG with a pair of dragon bones while singing the opening verse from 'Psycho Killer' (which was a little scary).

To see this quite, reserved person turn into a Bardic maniac singing 'C'mere you little goblin bastards! I haven't eaten all day...' was amazing, and it's why I love this game.

He was the runt of the litter but it was love that made him grow :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29431079