For me a social media in a linux distro called blendos and because reddit sucks and is soo toxic man
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On Reddit. Used it because of how shit Reddit became. Couldn’t use Infinity for reddit and Spez was removing moderators for protesting.
Reddit.
Reddit.
I read about and liked the concept of the Fediverse, opened a few accounts across various platforms, quickly got bored with the small userbase. Then reddit did their thing with the API, I wanted to stop using it entirely, and enough people also migrated to Lemmy at the same time that this is now a level of users and activity to hold my interest.
Same. The fediverse brought me here!
Found it mentioned as an alternative when Reddit announced their API changes.
Same. Migrated to Lemmy with the API changes, haven’t looked back
yeah… it was literally all over Reddit. I also remember the lemmy vs. kbin discussions.
Reddit APIcalypse. Downloaded Jerboa and came to World after I saw a post in the middle of it.
I liked that people could run their own instance and that it was not controlled by big tech.
Don’t remember the exact date now but I believe I learned about Lemmy either slightly before or during the first wave of Twitter/Mastodon migration… I was trying to find Reddit alternatives, and quickly realized that the only option is a thing that is run by Tankies where the most popular posts only gathered fewer than 100 upvotes each
… anyway the statement did not age well. I’ve been lurking on Lemmy for the past year but haven’t really registered an account so
It’s interesting that you were able to post without an account
Found out about it from r/RedditAlternatives but had always been reluctant to sign up, after watching Voat and Ruqqus become right wing shitholes.
The API controversy was what caused me and others to flock here.
Minutes before the reddit API pricing changes being announced, i started testing 3 party reddit apps because the official one was terrible
While testing, i found a post about the reddit changes but ignored it
I ended up using boost for reddit.
During the community strikes, i rarely opened reddit to check one of the subreddits about the protests
I found out about lemmy from the announcement of he creator of boost for reddit making boost for lemmy
Created my account 3 years ago so I could still access one of the piracy subs in case they were banned from reddit, they used to have an alt community on lemmy.ml…
I came over properly during the reddit blackout, set up the communities I most wanted to see over here (that didn’t exist already), and have stayed ever since
I like the fact that the posts have (generally) sensible comments, without 1000 replies of inane drivel to sift through, overall it feels like a nice quiet corner of the internet where I can recognise usernames and have a brief chat, then be on my way
Definitely love that it feels like a nice quiet corner of the internet
I came over in the API exodus. Lemmy lacks niche content, so I went back to Reddit. I stick around here because I’m so used to Sync.
Reddit referred me to Lemmy just like Digg referred me to Reddit and Slashdot to Digg
For me the chain is similar but longer.
Fidonet BBS’s -> Internet Newsgroups over NNTP -> Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Fediverse
Heard about Lemmy from Mastodon and I found out about that from Hackernews.
During the api debacle I just looked on alternativeto.net and found lemmy. I didn’t want to switch at the time, so I just used both until Relay stopped working and then I just used lemmy.
I did exactly the same. I found lemmy through a reddit post about alternatives to Reddit. And after 13 years as a daily reddit user, once RIF went down, I haven’t gone back.
I do wish we’d get more traffic with the science communities but I’ve still noticed slow and steady growth since then.
Same here, though I technically never used lemmy - I started on kbin (kbin.social) and finally ended up hosting a single user pyfedi/piefed instance (piefed.social)
