I found out about it because of a hacker news comment discussing the Reddit drama. I'm pretty upset that I didn't discover it on Reddit. I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?
I had heard about it on reddit and hacker news here and there, but I never made an account until I was downloading some modded/cracked apps off of mobilism and saw the 'Jerboa for Lemmy' listed on there.
Installed it, made an account, been morbin' ever since
Honestly, when I first came here, I entirely expected that Reddit would eventually cave and I'd return to it. I expected the Fediverse to fail. But instead Reddit has doubled down and the Fediverse has rapidly gotten considerably better. I'm intending to stay here.
Though admittedly I do worry about some smaller subs. Eg, my local city sub was fairly active on Reddit and was a great place to get local recommendations, learn about stuff going on, etc. I ended up making the community myself (@Waterloo), but there's yet to be any other subscribers (though this does remind me to go post about it in subs for the province).
Came across a reference to it on Reddit. I didn't do anything at the time, but when I came across two or three more references to it just before the blackout I thought I'd give it a try.
I can't really recall when I first learned about it existing. But I was looking into options for messaging, and saw it mentioned alongside matrix in an article. I'm fairly sure it was lemmygrad that I tried out at the time, because everything there was politically oriented, and with a heavily socialist/communist slant. That was back a while though
But it was pretty empty, so I didn't go back until the reddit shit with Apollo happened. It was obvious to me that reddit was changing beyond what I was willing to put up with, so I looked into alternatives and discovered that lemmy was actually much netter developed than when I originally saw it. Kbin came along with that.
I'll chime in and add Reddit. Once I saw the direction things were going in, I went ahead and created accounts on tildes, lemmy, and kbin (which was the order I learned of them in). Right now, I think I'm most fond of kbin, but I wanted to keep my options open.
I went to see Motörhead at Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg around 1986 and there he was, center stage.
Oh. I learned about lemmy a while back after searching something like "fediverse like reddit". I didn't join until this year. I didn't know about the API wars until afterward.
I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?
The RedditAlternatives sub is about 10 years old. Fediverse sub 5 years. The Lemmy sub is newish, only 1 year.
I've seen Lemmy mentioned about 30 times on Reddit. Granted, that's been on protest-oriented places like /r/ModCoord, /r/Save3rdPartyApps, /r/APIcalypse, and /r/RedditAlternatives.
I honestly don't recall, even though it was just a week or two ago. It was one of the Reddit alternatives that people were talking about, and I liked the federated aspect - it reminds me of the Usenet of old, which was my first online social experience. I tried signing up to one of the handful of non-lemmy.ml servers that were being recommended at the time to balance the load, but only lemmy.ml was actually online when I made the attempt so I signed up there.
Then I started noticing the odd popularity of Russia and China in the news communities, and around that time I heard about kbin. Again, even though I'd have loved to load-balance, kbin.social was the only one available at the time so I signed up there.
As soon as account transfer gets implemented I'll start looking to move to another instance and finally do my part to distribute things a bit more.
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