I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It’s just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there’s no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don’t even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it’ll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there’s a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I’ll find them here or more people will join and it’ll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?
When reddit started it’s dive down the enshitification hole. As for things I wish it had, a lemmy version of multireddits would be nice, especially since we can end up with multiple communities for the exact same thing here.
I moved to Korea and started posting on r/Korea. I recorded a video of a big fire in Seoul, and because I couldn’t find any news about it I uploaded it to my peertube instance and linked it on r/Korea.
The mods banned me for promoting my own website and said I should have uploaded it to YouTube.
So that resource was gone which was a bummer for me who just moved across the world and didn’t speak Korean. That was my main reason to use reddit.
I already hosted mastodon and when the 3rd party amargeddon happened I heard about Lemmy. I was hoping that there would be a vibrant Korea community which never happened.
But somehow the UX is much better than on mastodon so I stayed. Later I switched the software from Lemmy to PieFed though.
What’s piefed
It’s a similar software as Lemmy and MBin, but it is written in python: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
It’s compatible with the Threadyverse, therefore you can read what I’m writing.
thank you!
I read through it but am confused by why someone would care to have a small host just for python?
I hosted one Lemmy instance but it is optimized to run thousands of users, I an only one user so the overhead was a lot. As much in fact that it constantly used all the resources on my server so that the other services I run on it stopped working.
PieFed uses much less resources when running as a single user instance like mine. This is why I chose to switch. And now it runs fine on my small server together with all the other services.
That’s a great reason. Did you find it easier to setup?
Oh god yes, much much easier and without the need of docker and things.
I quit Reddit many years ago, because I noticed the toxic culture was fucking with my mental health. Then I was on Mastodon for a few years. Lemmy started to exist in that timeframe and the premise sounded good, so I joined pretty early on, when there were only a handful of posts every week or so. But yeah, these days Mastodon is what I check only occasionally and this place has taken over, as I do like the format a lot more.
Reddits idiotic moderation
I like open protocols and free software, and during the API exodus there was finally enough content that I wanted to jump ship.
of course I had annoyances with reddit, but I have annoyances with Lemmy too.
it’s still preferable imho
I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.
I didn’t even use a third party app so it didn’t affect me, but as an old-school Internet user I believe in federated networks over centralized services and it seemed like the one opportunity to finally get critical mass.
I’m the same but I used Apollo, and the ads + principle of what they did drove me away permanently And I scrambled all my comments
I have a very similar experience, I only left because I noticed just how awful the website has turned by the time the API fiasco happened, and I was definitely getting a bit addicted to the website so leaving essentially made me combat this addiction. I haven’t logged into Lemmy for over a month. Yeah, it has definitely helped me cut down on social media usage.
Same here, both the X and the Reddit things came at a time when I was trying to cut down on social media usage as it was definitely having an effect on me. Having social media that runs out and doesn’t just go on for infinity is so much healthier.
Fun fact: I deleted Twitter exactly 23 days before it was renamed to X. I was just tired of scrolling through drama.
I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.
Heh, and they say the exodus/protest were pointless 🤣
I assume you mean the federation in general or at least the reddit alternatives like mbin or lemmy. this is asked every so often and there are sorta multiple waves and I came in response to the reddit api thing were it was really apparent how things were gonna be.
I finally lost patience with almost every interaction on Reddit becoming a knife fight. No other platform I use(d) is like that. I’d post something, reply to something, or whatever and invariably someone would be needlessly aggressive and hostile. Any attempts to engage on anything beyond a surface level were either mocked or misunderstood (“it’s not that deep bro” - get out of here with that attitude). In general it was socially exhausting and I was tired of it.
I’ve not found that’s the case here, so this is what I use instead.
Early last year I decided I wanted to join social media so I’d periodically look up lists of different social media websites and I joined the ones I vibed with. Lemmy was on one of those lists. I’ve been having such a great time so far! 😃
Tired of 14 YO “experts” and trolls.
I am actually 41, Sir!
Reddit is becoming WAY too nazi like. Say something that goes against they ideas and views? banned. fuck those fat fucks.
API debacle. Went from Apollo for Reddit to Voyager for Lemmy
I used Boost for Reddit but well, we know how that went. I really loved Boost. The dev pivoted to Lemmy, so I did as well. So far the experience has been pretty solid.
I’m not sure I’m aware of reddit boosts or 3rd party apps, could you please explain to me how those work and how it was a deal breaker to so many people here on Lemmy?
Reddit changed the API which meant that any popular third party apps were going to have the pay thousands or even millions to Reddit just to access it.
Third party apps like Boost, Apollo etc all left the platform but some devs created apps for Lemmy instead which gave people the experience they were used to. Reddit official app is full of ads and you can’t download half the stuff you want.
I installed it alongside mastadon, and Lemmy was mode usable than mastadon
I found out about Lemmy when the api thing happened but since Infinity was still working, I stayed. But because I like open source stuff and I wanna be part of the fediverse and support it, I joined Lemmy.
