If so, how’d you hear about lemmy?
It feels like everyone here came from reddit but I’m curious if anyone found lemmy organically
I came from Tumblr, heard about this place when when people on Tumblr where talking about the fediverse
I have never used social media before joining Mastodon, then Lemmy.
Technically I’m from digg
Same here! I remember when Digg only supported single-level replies. Good times…
Speak up please, I can’t hear you over those creaking hips
Slashdot? Fark? BBSes? Smoke signals?
I’ve used reddit.com before but I never made many posts or comments and I haven’t used it in years. I’m pretty sure there was a period where I visited it regularly though.
I don’t think I’ve ever posted anything with facebook.com or twitter.com either. I never browsed them for fun, and if I want to coordinate with someone in my family I just contact them directly. I do use youtube.com a lot though.
I tried using pleroma but I haven’t used that in a while either. I prefer lemmy much more (probably because posts being different from comments provides more structure).
I’ve been following Lemmy development for years since I think decentralized software is cool. I always thought it was a cool idea, but there was never enough content for me. It always seemed like a prototype of an idea. When the API catastrophe struck, I committed to Let full time and deleted my account.
While I previously had a Reddit account (which I don’t really used in a frequent basis), I found about Lemmy through Mastodon, which in turn I found about through my search for social network alternative platforms. Turns out I’ve been participating at Lemmy more often through the entire 3 months I’ve been here than I participated at Reddit throughout more than a decade (I joined Reddit in 2012 IIRC).
Same. 12 year mostly reddit lurker. I have x10 the posts and comments hear using Lemmy for a year :| once I’m working again I really need to set up a monthly donation for my server admin
Jacob from TechLinked mentioned it. I had already dropped Reddit because the app sucks.
Maybe I dont count, but I was a reddit mild lurker, I would check something like r/memes every week, and also r/linux with similar frequency, and learnt about lemmy close to reddit API stuff, and made a lemmy account sometime after
Me
Slashdot > Digg > Reddit > Lemmy
“is anyone not from Reddit?”
“Me, I’m from Reddit”
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That’s me, with a brief stopover on Fark before my brain was fully developed.
I created my account a couple years before any of the recent reddit migration, but I barely used it back then as the traffic was miniscule.
Me! I’m new to social media in general, decided to engage with it earlier this year by looking up lists of social media sites and then joined the ones I could find that I vibed with!
What else did you join?
I’m on too many to list here, but here’s a few, I’m on Tumblr where I post my art, Cara, and Newgrounds
It’s odd to me to see Newgrounds in a list of social media. I thought it was more of an indie game/animation-hosting platform, lol
That’s awesome! Beginning your social media journey with the fediverse is great :)
Been having such a great time so far!!
Lemmy is def substantially higher quality content, commentary, and community as a whole compared to all the other popular social media I use. You made the right choice!!
Not exactly what you’re asking, as I was on reddit for many years. Never touched twitter tho, but nonetheless I’ve been really enjoying Mastodon
exactly me, I tried to get into Twitter a few times in the late 2000s and 2010s, but never could really see the use of it; nowadays I am a regular reader of Mastodon
Reddit meanwhile I have been active on (sometimes more, sometimes less, on different accounts) since 2014, so I can’t post a top-level answer here. I still enjoy forum-style communities like on Lemmy more than I enjoy microblogs, so post a lot more here than on Mastodon, but I read both regularly.
I never used reddit in my life. I joined mastodon few months ago. After that i found Lemmy. And joined
So I assume you went from Twitter to mastodon?
No i also never used Twitter. I randomly found mastodon from a yt video
Interesting. Good for you you skipped the toxic stuff
Nice! How are you liking it so far?
Really great. On mastodon not a lot of people will talk to you. I do but not as much as lemmy. So it’s great.
I always hated reddit. Never used it. When I heard about lemmy, it just sounded better. So, here I am.
Glad to have you here!
i didnt come across lemmy, specifically. i wanted to build a public reddit clone, and found ‘kbin’, which federated both microblog (mastodon/universodeon/threads) and threaded forums (lemmy)… so i built that. kbin has since died, but was resurrected in a fork named mbin.
so im not technically on lemmy, but our instance fully federates with it.
ive been actively recruiting users from reddit who dont like swimming in bot farms talkin to eachother.
Moist cat sweat - 10/10!
