For me a social media in a linux distro called blendos and because reddit sucks and is soo toxic man

  • burgersc12@mander.xyz
    12·
    3 months ago

    When Reddit shut down 3rd party apps. I only used Joey for a single reason, it autohides post after scrolling past them very well, it was the only way reddit is tolerable is by only seeing a post once. Now I use Connect which has a similar autohide feature and I am enjoying Lemmy a lot more than i ever did reddit.

    • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
      1·
      3 months ago

      Joey was the best. I came here before Joey died, but the day it died for good I only went to Reddit once. I talked mad shit to a particularly horrible mod and got my account permanently banned. Haven’t looked back since.

      I sure wish codesforliving would create a joey for lemmy. I’d pay for that again in a heartbeat. One of the best apps I ever had.

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    111·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • JPSound@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • quinacridone@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 months ago

    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

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    7·
    3 months ago

    reddit locking their api was the last straw for me. so i wanted to stand up a reddit clone to fill that hole for me and others.

    surfin the githubs for federating platforms… lemmy was fugly, i started with kbin.

    i ended up with an mbin instance so i could connect to mastodon as well as all the lemmy content/users.

  • DeltaWhy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    During the Reddit API stuff, same as most of the folks here. I tried kbin first but lack of an API or mobile app at the time pushed me to Lemmy instead.

    I eventually caved and started using the official Reddit app, but I still check here as well - less content but I like the vibes here. Reddit hasn’t been the same since the protests - might just be bias but I feel like ‘brain drain’ was real and quality discussions over there are a little less frequent than before.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Reddit APIcalypse. Downloaded Jerboa and came to World after I saw a post in the middle of it.

  • RandomVideos@programming.dev
    4·
    3 months ago

    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

  • Blackout@fedia.io
    3·
    3 months ago

    Reddit referred me to Lemmy just like Digg referred me to Reddit and Slashdot to Digg

    • rammer@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      3 months ago

      For me the chain is similar but longer.

      Fidonet BBS’s -> Internet Newsgroups over NNTP -> Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Fediverse

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Knowledge of lemmy was the last great gift that Reddit gave me before it finally completed its transformation to shit.