I heard about Lemmy from Mental Outlaw and it caught my interest. The Reddit API situation made me finally decide to drop Reddit and make an account on lemmy.world. I haven’t turned back since.
What about you, what brought you to the Fediverse?
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The Reddit API situation brought me here. It’s a much nicer crew.
I was shared an article about reddit shitting the bed (API thing) that mentioned ActivityPub and Lemmy, so I checked it out on a whim. Been around since.
I got banned from reddit because I said Nazis don’t deserve to live. When I tried to appeal it I showed numerous examples of similar things being said throughout reddit’s history and that killing Nazis was an important part of my country’s history. I guess its suddenly not allowed anymore on that platform so I am here now.
Also I’ve seen way worse said about trans people on reddit but that is OK for some reason.
Lemmy has a Canadian instance. Pretty much the only place you can have online discourse without getting spammed by bots or doxxed by some Maple MAGAt divorcee.
Getting more and more annoyed by corpos turning into Nazi Bars, basically
IIRC I joined before the Reddit API protests. I wanted an alternative where I would be more free to speak my mind. The problem is, Voat and Ruqqus got overtaken by white supremacists, Tildes is too much of a walled garden and both Snapzu and Hubski are basically dead.
Voat and Ruqqus got overtaken by white supremacists, Tildes is too much of a walled garden and both Snapzu and Hubski are basically dead.
You’re just making up words aren’t you?
I liked the idea of a federated platform run by people and not big tech.
Reddit shat itself and on its users by forcing people to use an unusable app, and since I only found reddit tolerable via 3rd party apps I stumbled across Lemmy while looking for alternatives.
For me it wasn’t even matter of reddit only being tolerable via third party apps, third party apps were Reddit.
Reddit released their first app in 2014. My email shows I purchased “Reddit is Fun (Premium)” in 2013, and I know I used other apps before that.
Reddit is Fun WAS Reddit for me for 10+ years.
When it went away and I had to change anyway, I jumped to the closest thing. (Eventually landing on Voyager.)
My story is the same all the way up until I eventually landed on Boost.
Got banned by an AI on reddit, my appeal was rejected by the same AI, And after thinking it over I realized getting to see all the advertisements and bots replying to bot posts really wasn’t worth the effort of creating a new profile
I just had my quarter-life crisis and was starting to have a very FOSS period of my life. Forgot from where, but I heard someone mentioning Mastodon so I joined; this was months before the Reddit API fiasco
I heard about Lemmy on Reddit around the time of the Reddit API lockdown, and it appealed to me, so I joined and have been here since
They broke RIF with the API changes, and Voyager for Lemmy was the recommended alternative at the time. Still here 3 years later.
I haven’t fully deleted my Reddit account because, as much as I hate to admit it, the site is often a good source of information for hobby projects etc, but I’ve gone completely read-only. I get what I need and then leave - no voting, no comments, no messaging.
Being banned from Reddit
Yep same. Got a 3 day ban for jokingly saying they should have tested a mk-48 torpedo on the hantavirus cruise instead of letting them scatter to the wind like dandelion seeds.
boost for lemmy announcement post on a random community about the API pricing protest
Same reason as many other responses here, I came here because of the Reddit API situation. The Reddit app was garbage at the time (likely still is) and losing 3rd party apps with all of their features was frustrating. The API pricing scheme was obviously set high to push out most other applications.
What really pushed me over the edge was the way that Steve Huffman acted towards the Apollo dev (Christian Selig). The Reddit CEO lied about Apollo “blackmailing” them. Luckily Christian had recorded their conversation and could prove what was actually said, even then Steve doubled down.
https://www.reveddit.com/v/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/
In the fediverse I started on Lemmy.ml, but then I saw how the Admins treated those with opposing views. I switched to Lemmy.world and stuck with it for a while. Then PieFed came out with all of its additional features. I quickly switched over and felt much more comfortable donating to their development costs.
