Got here on the 12th, 6 more days!
Been switching accounts every time I learn something new about self hosting, but I’ve been here about a month as well!
Haven’t checked reddit in 2 weeks and I’m not looking back. This place is awesome! Self hosting is awesome!
Almost!
Same
Around 3 weeks here 👍
Fortnight for me
Nah, I have an account on beehaw since before LW existed, but when beehaw defederated from LW I opened an account here, so 3 weeks for me here :)
Why did BeeHaw defederate?
Concerns with other instances policies for new signups, their reasoning was to avoid spam / bots.
The honest reason is that they have a safe space for LGBTQIA+ and didn’t want TERFs or CIS gendered people fucking up their vibe. They did do it in a tasteful way though.
Actually I had one on lemmy.ml before too, but that was more like looking around.
Lemmy months feel like 2 months :D
A little over a month for me
No, I was late to the party… Only 26 days, but it feels like a month!
Me too, Lemmy birthday twins!
I came here after the reddit protest blackout…and never went back.
I came here even before the blackout.
u/spez’s “AMA” was the final nail in the coffin for me.
Amen. Haven’t looked back.
3.5 weeks here!
Such a sad cat 🥹
I’m just about to reach a month too. Joined as soon as I heard Reddit was killing Apollo, the main way I used Reddit.
5 weeks!
Personally I think lemmy.world was key in driving momentum. After realizing a couple days before the protests started that reddit was not going to change, I started looking for real alternatives. When I found lemmy, I thought I had to join the biggest instance to get a shot at seeing enough content, not understanding how the fediverse worked yet. I imagine it was the same for a lot of people. And the bigger userbase lemmy.world got, the more appealing it was for reddit refugees. Once we got here we now know we can branch out to other instances if needed, but lemmy.world’s awesome handling of the user influx absolutely looked appealing to people looking to make the jump, and we shouldn’t discount that. Awesome work to @ruud and all the admins he has brought on the team. We appreciate you all.
I’ve been here for over a year. Thankful to finally see a lot more content.
Same here!! I guess we’re Lemmy veterans (Lemerans?)
Oh, there are such people 😁
Ooh, we have a veteran here. ;)
Happy 30 day anniversary.
Personally I only lurked at first, checking out what it was all about before creating an account.
