For me a social media in a linux distro called blendos and because reddit sucks and is soo toxic man
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Same here, though I technically never used lemmy - I started on kbin (kbin.social) and finally ended up hosting a single user pyfedi/piefed instance (piefed.social)
never used kbin tbh i just game straight to lemmy
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.
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.
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.
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, both questions. Jumped ship the day the API died.
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.
Knowledge of lemmy was the last great gift that Reddit gave me before it finally completed its transformation to shit.
When it was a bit too much with all the enshittification and bots on Reddit, I wanted alternatives. Lemmy was a suggestion, and I’ve had a good experience thus far.
Reddit API fiasco. Practical issue since I didn’t want to use Reddit’s shitty app for my phone browsing and it was just the writing on the walls.
Reddit.
Reddit.
I only started using Reddit regularly when I learned of the third party apps, so when they killed that, this is the thing all the other quitters were talking about.
Tried out a few apps and instances. It seemed very slow and quiet, but much nicer as far as the personalities. Was just a lurker at Reddit, so I had nothing to leave behind, so I stayed here.
It’s not quite as nice now as during the mass migration, but I’ve found a nice niche for myself here and I participate much more often than I ever would have at Reddit. There’s a decent audience now, but still enough room to find your own voice and to build the type of community you want.
