Quit using Reddit for like a year after the API changes, then used it again for like a week primarily to search for an alternative (… Reddit sadly still is best for searching information), used both for a while before I stopped using it again, this time primarily because it’s overrun by bots and the first party app is absolutely awful and I still heavily dislike their API decisions.

Only Lemmy now :)

I’m also a huge open source fan

And the brain drain on Reddit is real.

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.

Don’t remember the exact date now but I believe I learned about Lemmy either slightly before or during the first wave of Twitter/Mastodon migration… I was trying to find Reddit alternatives, and quickly realized that the only option is a thing that is run by Tankies where the most popular posts only gathered fewer than 100 upvotes each

… anyway the statement did not age well. I’ve been lurking on Lemmy for the past year but haven’t really registered an account so

First heard about it on r/dndmemes during the API shit storm. I stick around because it’s so much nicer. Smaller, yes, but easier to curate I guess? I read about my specific interests and just vibe.

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Reddit referred me to Lemmy just like Digg referred me to Reddit and Slashdot to Digg

Banned from Reddit for suggesting that certain cult members should in fact drink the flavor aide.

Minutes before the reddit API pricing changes being announced, i started testing 3 party reddit apps because the official one was terrible

While testing, i found a post about the reddit changes but ignored it

I ended up using boost for reddit.

During the community strikes, i rarely opened reddit to check one of the subreddits about the protests

I found out about lemmy from the announcement of he creator of boost for reddit making boost for lemmy

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.

From this particular Reddit post:

• Social websites with nested comments v7

I tested several from the list. So thank you to the kind poster (a Mod actually).

On Reddit. Used it because of how shit Reddit became. Couldn’t use Infinity for reddit and Spez was removing moderators for protesting.

Knowledge of lemmy was the last great gift that Reddit gave me before it finally completed its transformation to shit.

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.

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

Heard about Lemmy from Mastodon and I found out about that from Hackernews.