For me a social media in a linux distro called blendos and because reddit sucks and is soo toxic man
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Found it mentioned as an alternative when Reddit announced their API changes.
yeah… it was literally all over Reddit. I also remember the lemmy vs. kbin discussions.
Same. Migrated to Lemmy with the API changes, haven’t looked back
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Reddit.
Reddit.
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.
That instance name.
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!
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.
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
Reddit APIcalypse. Downloaded Jerboa and came to World after I saw a post in the middle of it.
Reddit. Came here in the API to exodus and never went back. I use my phone less too.
Reddit, both questions. Jumped ship the day the API died.
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
New to social media, I just Googled “social media websites” and “new social media websites” and Lemmy was on one of the lists! 😃
That’s a very interesting way to end up here, welcome!
