Here we go!

Well, after over a year of working on this, and getting to know you all to the point where I feel like I have new friends, we are finally there. It's really happening. I'm so excitied. I truly am.

I love what we have created. I love the people who have joined us. I love the communities we have created with you.

I'm a very worst case scenario person and, having worked at reddit, I have a lot to obsess over think about.

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That said, I feel like together we have created something that already has a sense of self and a very real atmosphere with a purpose. If we all work together towards maintining that, I believe we can do it. It will be hard (I had to ban a pretend Hitler today) but I refuse to believe that it's impossible because the old gaurd can't manage it.

I, and many others, don't want to or simply can't go back to the kind of platforms that abused us, made us profoundly uncomfortable, left scars, caused anxiety and ptsd. It's not worth building something that behaves the same way everything else already does. There is room for something different.

I don't want to be cocky. I'm not going to say that we are going to be the best thing ever but I will say that we have great potential and I'm really looking forward to our future together.

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If you're reading this, I'm so glad I know you. Thanks for joining me here : )