It must have been somewhere around early 2020 when I was casually browsing Mastodon. I found about a federated Reddit alternative and got immediately interested. I registered to Lemmy.ml and in 2021 founded Sopuli when federation got implemented properly. And here I am!
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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It was part of my crusade to "Fediverse-sify" my internet experience. I started in Mastodon, then I added a Pixelfed account, then a Peertube one, then this Lemmy account (Which gave me a lot of good experiences) and now I'm trying Loops (a TikTok-like) and Wafrn (a Tumblr-like).
Overall, I'm in love with the Fediverse.
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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
Lemmy was mentioned few times when people were discussing leaving Reddit. When the purge date came I installed Jerboa.
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I knew about it during the api thing. I would have switched over but I realized I could patch boost and use it anyway. However I've made some unhinged rants that were horribly worded on throwaway accounts and got ip banned. Every account I make is immediately permabanned. I wish muttr didn't shut down so I could just vent the unspeakable there. Wasn't worth it since I'm always going to be completely alone.
Someone sent a mod mail to a sub i moderated about it.
It was indeed during the API exodus. I used the official app so I didn't have strong feelings about it, but I really hated how they handled it all. Of course it was discussed everywhere and I was like "I hate it like everybody else, but there isn't really an alternative" and someone was like "uhm, how about Lemmy or kbin [or other stuff I don't remember I think]?".
I looked into it, got confused, asked the guy some questions and they were kind enough to explain. Looked into it more and made a slow transition. Really helped this was at the peak of the exodus so everything was firing up here.
im was banned in reddit because... i accidentally wrote lgor360 (first letter: L) instead of Igor360 (first letter: I) and reddit thought i was pretending to be a person with a nickname Igor360 (first letter: I and yes there is a person with such a nickname on reddit) and ban me...
Saw it mentioned on Reddit
Several years ago I stumbled upon ActivityPub and the Fediverse. I created a few accounts across services, I think Friendica was the first. I quickly got bored with it because no one else from my real life was on it and the overall userbase was tiny. Move forward a couple of years and I left reddit when they took away third-party apps and mod tools. Lemmy had enough users at that point I've stuck around.
I created a Mastadon account when Musk bought Twitter but that's gone idle. I was never that into Twitter, it's not a format I prefer.
I was on reddit when the api changes happened, after that (and the canvas) i deleted my account over there and went here.
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.
same, Apollo was my favourite/most used app and that was it for me when they banned those apps. I found voyager/lemmy and never looked back. I bet Lemmy's population exploded after all the reddit refugees showed up.
I was weening myself off the reddit news cycle and then Baconit got killed by the API and that had been my only venue for using reddit soooooo I started looking for alternatives and already had Fdroid installed....one thing led to another
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It was ether from one of the subreddit talking about alternative to Reddit which was around the time of Reddit did changes to API or from someone made post about Lemmy on Mastodon and wanted to try it out.
I didnโt come here directly after reddit. Stopped off at mastodon first, but it was too twitter-like for my taste. Saw Lemmy on a list of alternatives, and this place scratches the itch pretty well.