For me a social media in a linux distro called blendos and because reddit sucks and is soo toxic man
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.
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.
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.
Same reason here, my 3rd party app was BaconReader and now using Connect. I didn’t know Connect had an auto hide feature, I’ll have to check that out.
I have “scrolling past marks as read” enabled, and then in my Lemmy account setting I have “show read posts” disabled, so it hides basically anything I’ve already seen. Comes in handy :)
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 heard more and more about it in the time between reddit announcing their API changes and the actual last day RIF was usable unmodded. Then RIF suggested lemmy.world, but so many people were signing up that the page wouldn’t load right, and I went in search of another instance. I signed up with both slrpnk.net and midwest.social and have been here ever since.
I’ve been keeping track of free and open source software and federated social media. Discovered Lemmy quite a while before the Spez/Reddit thing happened. But I only really started using it then, as it exploded practically over night and became usable to talk to more than just a dozen people or so.
Before the whole API fiasco, reddit was down a whole bunch, and old reddit plus 3rd party apps were taking significantly longer to recover than the new interface. I’d already been noticing the quality of posts going downhill and the number of plagiarizing bots and shirt sellers going up.
One time it was down, I searched up Reddit alternatives and found Lemmy. I had previously heard tidbits of the Fediverse (like Mastodon and Friendica) which sounded like something up my alley, but the Twitter/Facebook style didn’t fit my vibe. So when I discovered this Reddit alternative that seemed appealing. I looked around for a good server to join and I made an account, coincidentally on my 6-year Reddit cake day. I was in a transition period away from Reddit between March to July 2023 since there wasn’t too much content on Lemmy really until June, but I tried to contribute a handful of local posts and news to my communities. In June I posted a handful of comments trying to help people migrate to Lemmy. It was a little difficult to leave, but I edited my top 20 comments plus a handful of other niche answers saying I left for lemmy, put a goodbye self-post and swore to myself I would not post or comment on Reddit again.
So far I’ve stuck to this pledge. Still I sometimes wonder if I should post an FAQ to help more people, but I’ll leave that to other people and Redditors can find us at their leisure.
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!
On Reddit. Used it because of how shit Reddit became. Couldn’t use Infinity for reddit and Spez was removing moderators for protesting.
I used Reddit app, they closed all Reddit apps so I searched what was next.
I actually prefer Mbin, but I found out about the Fediverse after searching for reddit alternatives when I heard about the API bullshit Sp*z was planning.
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
I’d been on the microblogging side of Fedi for a while and was aware there was a federated reddit-like, but my initial impression of it was that it’s a long way from getting enough of a userbase to sustain the kind of niche hobby/fandom communities I used reddit for.
But once reddit’s API scandal happened, I dropped it and decided to check out the alternative. Still feel like it isn’t really there yet, but eh, I’m here anyway 'cause I’m not going back.
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Found it mentioned as an alternative when Reddit announced their API changes.
Same. Migrated to Lemmy with the API changes, haven’t looked back
yeah… it was literally all over Reddit. I also remember the lemmy vs. kbin discussions.
