One day, I was about to install RedReader through F-droid. For some reason I searched for “Reddit” in the search bar instead of “RedReader” and saw Voyager, Jerboa and some other Lemmy clients there.
I got curious and installed “Eternity for Lemmy”. I browsed around, then decided to created my first account on lemmy.ml. Instantly fell in love with how nice most people were, how quickly I got answers and replies and the closely-knit feeling of a small community where it’s not surprising to see the same user in many different places.
I found Lemmy and decentralized social media by sheer luck.
I know most of you came here after the reddit API changes to spite the corporate site, but I wonder if there are other stories.
P.S. I find it sort of weird how lemmy.ml censors the word for “female dog”. Cmon, that’s such a tame and common insult! Can’t even quote Jesse Pinkman properly.
In the wake of the Reddit API changes, I decided to jump off that ship. Saw Lemmy mentioned but a lot of posts were painting it negatively, due to federation things and tankies. I was on Squabbles (lol) as my Reddit replacement platform for a few months before that disintegrated and then finally arrived at Lemmy.
I moved to Lemmy during the Reddit API stuff
Saw Lemmy mentioned but a lot of posts were painting it negatively, due to federation things and tankies.
The tankie stuff was what made me try lemmy out and stay.
Thought that it’d be an actually leftist community, if it was facing such terms.
And it was indeed one. And is quite good.
I got know about the Dessalines audiobook channel too and that’s nice too.
Reddit has become too political, with inconsistent censoring. Also didn’t love the bullshit with the API costs. Seemed like a power move to push small devs out
Lemmy was mentioned few times when people were discussing leaving Reddit. When the purge date came I installed Jerboa.
Started with some political discussions from my home country on mastodon, looked in to fediverse tech in general and managed to avoid .world from the start
When Elmo bought Twitter I moved to Mastodon, when Reddit got rid of third party apps and the API changes I asked on Mastodon if there’s is a Fediverse Reddit, not really expecting a yes.
The one thing that does my head in about Lemmy is how USA centric it is.
Reddit is pretty USA-centric, too, or at least it was the last time I was there
