One day, I was about to install RedReader through F-droid. For some reason I searched for “Reddit” in the search bar instead of “RedReader” and saw Voyager, Jerboa and some other Lemmy clients there.
I got curious and installed “Eternity for Lemmy”. I browsed around, then decided to created my first account on lemmy.ml. Instantly fell in love with how nice most people were, how quickly I got answers and replies and the closely-knit feeling of a small community where it’s not surprising to see the same user in many different places.
I found Lemmy and decentralized social media by sheer luck.
I know most of you came here after the reddit API changes to spite the corporate site, but I wonder if there are other stories.
P.S. I find it sort of weird how lemmy.ml censors the word for “female dog”. Cmon, that’s such a tame and common insult! Can’t even quote Jesse Pinkman properly.
The Reddit exodus post API changes. I honestly have found it quite nice by and large, other than a couple of idiots in my inbox, including the person a couple of weeks ago who told me they reported me to the FBI because of some post I made re Luigi and the CEO shooting, although I don’t know which one. It’s funny because I actually have a relationship with the FBI for other reasons (yes really truly), and I just asked them if they wanted me to put them in touch with my agent, LOL.
Saw it mentioned on Reddit
I didn’t come here directly after reddit. Stopped off at mastodon first, but it was too twitter-like for my taste. Saw Lemmy on a list of alternatives, and this place scratches the itch pretty well.
Lemmy was mentioned few times when people were discussing leaving Reddit. When the purge date came I installed Jerboa.
I was on reddit when the api changes happened, after that (and the canvas) i deleted my account over there and went here.
It was indeed during the API exodus. I used the official app so I didn’t have strong feelings about it, but I really hated how they handed it all. Of course it was discussed everywhere and I was like “I hate it like everybody else, but there isn’t really an alternative” and someone was “uhm, how about Lemmy or kbin [or other stuff I don’t remember I think]?”.
I looked into it, got confused, asked the guy some questions and they were kind enough to explain. Looked into it more and made a slow transition. Really helped this was at the peak of the exodus so everything was firing up here.
im was banned in reddit because… i accidentally wrote lgor360 (first letter: L) instead of Igor360 (first letter: I) and reddit thought i was pretending to be a person with a nickname Igor360 and ban me…
When the chapotraphouse subreddit was banned I learned about lemmy and hexbear. I lost the password to lemmy.ml u/HamidPayaamAbbasi now I have my own instance.
Why was the Chapotraphouse sub banned?
Wouldn’t stop promoting killing slaveowners after Spez said he would probably own slaves in a post apocalypse scenario.
A better more exhaustive answer here: https://hexbear.net/post/56333
Who knows, they said because of glorifying violence when people were praising John Brown, but really I think Reddit is anti leftist and used quarantining The_Donald as an excuse for “fairness”
Reddit is a captured propaganda tool of the US state department and heavily botted by their political parties.
Same, minus the u/HamidPayaamAbbasi part
Reddit API drama >> kbin.social >> lemmy.world
The ChapoTrapHouse-Hexbear pipeline
They took away apps that worked and apps that had accessibility features built in in favour of monetizing everything which sits very badly with me as a concept so I stopped being a part of how that company makes money and I joined here.
Now my stupid comments make nobody money. Win win.
Yep. This was me. I followed the android Sync app here. User-created content should not be monetized. Im not going to subscribe to something that’s mostly memes, attention-seeking behavior, and bullshit.
I had hated reddit for ages. Many trigger-happy omniscient mods who couldn’t admit to a mistake if it swam up their arse and blew a trumpet. I was eventually perma-banned for glorifying violence by making a Star Wars reference about Trump. I can only assume the mod wasn’t old enough to remember Star Wars movies.
I had been there from the bright and cheerful early days and watched it become 99.8% trash.
Lemmy has hit the rewind button for me. It kinda sucks that so many people are trying to emulate what modern reddit had become, but it still feels refreshing. With a bit of luck, Lemmy will go in a direction I prefer. It’s not that I don’t want people to do whatever they want, but i feel like some instances will cater to certain demographics.
Earlier this year, I decided to engage with social media, so I searched for lists of social media websites and signed up on the ones I could find. Lemmy was on one of the lists and also happens to be one of the websites I enjoy the most! 😃
When the Reddit API thing was going down I was looking for a place to jump ship before Apollo went down and Lemmy was one of the options. I found Voyager and later I joined other parts of the Fediverse
My main reddit app was switching over to make a lemmy app. The app (boost) is my personal favorite, so I figured lemmy was the better of any of the reddit alternatives. It’s larger userbase was also a good sign of it life expectancy.
I was 2 r 3 months into my sanity break from Reddit when my friends (who knew i was a redditor) started sending me msgs like “lol what are you gonna do now?”
Viewed the API drama from afar, then read some article mentioning lemmy. Tried a few instances but a lot had limits on new accts. Beehaw told me to pound sand. sh.itjust.works was the one that had the fewest roadblocks to join. Now i got a few accts spread out over grad, bear, and here.
People seem to pine for reddit (or at least more content/users) but i like the small community. You can actually be heard here, and so too can you hear speech that isn’t the same fucking meme ad-nauseam
