It started with a distaste for how Reddit was treating developers and moderators, but now I genuinely believe in the future of the fediverse.
Honestly don’t remember why I signed up. I like it though. Kind of similar vibe to when I used Reddit except much better. It’s got some nice small-ish (but not too small) communities for FOSS stuff.
I don’t think all social media should be based in one country because that creates a risk of political censorship.
I’m here because Reddit got shitty. And I really wanted a decentralized platform, where one person couldn’t screw things up for everybody else. It’s a lot harder to “take over” a social media platform when it’s spread out over 600 Instances in many different countries.
Initially because reddit permabanned me. Then I got comfy here
The lack of accountability of mods on reddit. Reddit doesn’t want to lose their free labor.
just lemmy or the federation? im on mbin and I left with the big reddit migration and was pleasantly surprised to find something a bit closer to the old internet I knew. Im one of the few who don’t see the need for it to get popular but its fine to me if it does.
Mbin is better for some reason
I tried both when I was deciding and liked kbin at the time (I don’t know what happened to earnest and really wish I did). this was due to the web interface though and I only use a laptop so I don’t think the interface matters with smartphone users as much as they I believe have a variety of apps that can change it around.
As in, why here and not reddit? I drifted away from posting on reddit about 5 - 8 years ago. I was icky over their ads and tracking and it was just a time sink I didn’t need back then, but I would still use alternate frontends (the current equivalent would be libreddit) to lurk while on the train trip to work and back.
I forget whether I found lemmy from /r/piracy exploring bunker options (raddle and lemmy) or if it was through FOSS, but I liked its potential and have been here posting here since 2022.
i came here like most lemmy did; because reddit; and i hope to be here for a long time since all substantially financed social media platforms enshitify eventually like reddit or facebook did or enshitify immediately like bluesky did when they banned gazans.
I found it in the reddit kerfuffle and stayed because it reminded me of a combination of Usenet text forums and early Reddit. The pace here is manageable and it’s mostly nice.
So I am here for whatever I was on Usenet then Reddit for, just to have a space to read people’s opinions and maintain a niche community.
Well I was IP banned on reddit. Anybody on reddit that uses my ip address gets an automatic ban forever. I don’t know exactly what I said or do. I tried appealing no response till date. Got tired of trying different vpn just for reddit and had to move.
No luck getting around the ban? I’ve tried vpn with emulated devices but still no luck. I’m certain they are teaming up with more companies because this is beyond the typical browser tracking
I left Twitter and Reddit and I found Lemmy and Mastadon. Lemmy is going much better than Mastadon.
Because fuck u/spez
Got banned on Lemmygrad for being hitler. Most of my family considers me Stalin.
Lemmygrad is Lemmy
Yet I’m no longer allowed to post on lemmygrad for saying that the US democrat party has been taken over by olifeminists and transsexualists, while the republican party is now occupied by olimachoists and zionists. They are no longer left and right, just right and right.
I’m still allowed to post here though.
Because fuck Spez, that’s why.
