I found out about it because of a hacker news comment discussing the Reddit drama. I’m pretty upset that I didn’t discover it on Reddit. I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?
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It’s a vibrant community all of the sudden!
I’m glad you’re back. Welcome back. 😊
Not as many as we would like though. People complaining about fragmentation (when that’s the very point of the fediverse), and things like the UI and “it’s not the same bro”. Mods are opening up their communities on Reddit.
At this point I think I should just do what I can; post the least on Reddit and lurk on every forum I can find with RSS
Can’t remember. Probably 2 weeks ago on a random reddit thread.
Reddit has been banning/deleting comments and subreddits dedicated to Lemmy or Kbin—unless someone notices, then they un-delete or un-ban
Interesting. Up until a few days ago, there was a subreddit devoted to Reddit alternatives. It’s how I learned about kbin and other options.
Some of the posts were, let’s say, suspiciously negative. Lemmy/kbin were supposedly impossible to sign up for unless you had at least 2 degrees in CS. (I managed, somehow) Oh, and lemmy is run by tankies. (Wouldn’t care if it were). And it looks like hot garbage. (I like it well enough. It’s easier on the eyes than new or old reddit imo)
It seemed like there were too many alternatives to make a rational choice, but ALSO “they all suck so don’t bother.” It sounded overwhelming, but I just said fuckit and picked one.
I wasn’t expecting a fully formed set of communities and content or a perfectly polished interface. And I wasn’t expecting the interface to be filled with tons of features or to have no learning curve. This is actually a lot nicer that what I expected, which was a very new/basic site that will need to do a lot of growing.
I wouldn’t sign up on an instance ran by nazis, I wouldn’t sign up on instance ran by tankies. I don’t think I’m being unreasonable connecting those two.
Sounds like the Streisand Effect is working.
I saw it on hacker news and wanted to check it out as I intended to delete my Reddit account but wanted a new home where I could get my info fix. I came, I saw, I deleted my Reddit account and here I am :)
Hacker news was my fix last Monday and it always delivers!
I followed a link from a comment from r/menopause. If us old farts can figure out how to get here in between hot flashes, anyone can.
After I saw the AMA with spez, I didn’t have any hope for reddit being useable anymore. So I googled for something else to do my doom scrolling. I ran across a 4 year old YouTube video explaining the fediverse. Then I googled fediverse reddit alternative, and here I am. I wish I would have found out about all of this a long time ago.
I caught the post about reddit censoring mentions of lemmy that made it to the front page. Streisand effect.
From a comment on Reddit.
I found out about it during the recent Reddit shitstorm.
If I remember correctly, I found Lemmy while looking into how to ‘de-google’ my phone
Came here after leaving Reddit and looking for alternatives. Happy to be here and I’m never going back.
Honestly, when I first came here, I entirely expected that Reddit would eventually cave and I’d return to it. I expected the Fediverse to fail. But instead Reddit has doubled down and the Fediverse has rapidly gotten considerably better. I’m intending to stay here.
Though admittedly I do worry about some smaller subs. Eg, my local city sub was fairly active on Reddit and was a great place to get local recommendations, learn about stuff going on, etc. I ended up making the community myself (@[email protected]), but there’s yet to be any other subscribers (though this does remind me to go post about it in subs for the province).
My local sub has been one of the harder ones to lose… I might make one here eventually. I’m just not convinced there’s enough local users here yet.
I’ve recreated [email protected] here. I was a big community member there under a different username on r/vans. I’m determined to get this community to grow on Lemmy. r/vans is in the top 5% population size-wize on reddit. There’s bound to be dozens of us here!
Came across a reference to it on Reddit. I didn’t do anything at the time, but when I came across two or three more references to it just before the blackout I thought I’d give it a try.
I think I was looking for open source software and there was a section for social media
Found out about Lemmy a while ago the through an app that existed for it (Lemmur) due to weird search of Fdroid, when the shit hit the fan I just followed the crowd.
From comment on Reddit
