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.
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
When Elmo bought Twitter I moved to Mastodon, when Reddit got rid of third party apps and the API changes I asked on Mastodon if there’s is a Fediverse Reddit, not really expecting a yes.
The one thing that does my head in about Lemmy is how USA centric it is.
Reddit is pretty USA-centric, too, or at least it was the last time I was there
True that.
Initially made an account on lemmy.ml in 2022. I was eyeing the fediverse, and when I found that there is a “reddit alternative”, I wanted to check it out, but there wasn’t much activity so I didn’t use it much other than checking on it occasionally.
Then in 2023 I made an account on tchncs…when majority of users also hopped on lemmy.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?
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.
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
Same, minus the u/HamidPayaamAbbasi part
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.
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! 😃
Reddit has become too political, with inconsistent censoring. Also didn’t love the bullshit with the API costs. Seemed like a power move to push small devs out
I found out about lemmy from the announcement for boost for lemmy(i had been using boost for reddit for about a week since then)
Hello from Boost
Someone sent a mod mail to a sub i moderated about it.
Started with some political discussions from my home country on mastodon, looked in to fediverse tech in general and managed to avoid .world from the start
I was a r/196 user during the API change
Lemmy was mentioned few times when people were discussing leaving Reddit. When the purge date came I installed Jerboa.
Same, then tried other apps before sticking with Sync.
Reddit API drama >> kbin.social >> lemmy.world
It was part of my crusade to “Fediverse-sify” my internet experience. I started in Mastodon, then I added a Pixelfed account, then a Peertube one, then this Lemmy account (Which gave me a lot of good experiences) and now I’m trying Loops (a TikTok-like) and Wafrn (a Tumblr-like).
Overall, I’m in love with the Fediverse.
WAFRN WAFRN WAFRN!
I was banned from Reddit for the crime of using a different computer to login. Fun fact - there’s no appeal for that one. So I decided I had enough of that particular shit show, did some Googling for something similar to the older Reddit from years ago.
