Your journey with Lemmy: When and why did you join? When did you leave and come back? Are you finally settled?

My journey with Lemmy started in 2022 out of interest in the fediverse and paranoia around how much control social media companies have, and how little choice common people are left with over the Internet.

Lemmy was much smaller back then. I really wanted it go get bigger, and tried to contribute to it. But it was small enough to be unsatisfying, so I would go back and forth between lemmy and Reddit.

After the Reddit fiasco, I shifted more and more towards lemmy and less towards Reddit. I finally abandoned Reddit when third party apps broke. I only go there for specific questions in communities that aren’t active on lemmy.

What about you?

Pandantic,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

For me, it was APImageddon - when Christian of Apollo played out the whole story, the lies he had been told, and how he tried to negotiate and Reddit just wouldn’t budge; when he said that there was no way he could make it work, I said, “Well, looks like I’m done with Reddit.” I went to mastadon first, but I’m not a micro-blog person, so I went between Kbin and Lemmy.world. I went to Reddit a few times, spreading the word and looking for communities that made the migration but, for the most part, I didn’t look back. I tried to contribute, and when it was quiet, I touched grass and stuff. I’m now at Midwest.social now because of the piracy debacle and .world defederating with Hexbear. I still use my mastadon account from time to time. But I’m happy and only see Reddit when it shows up in searches.

Edit: I did go back Reddit to help make pixel placing canvas (what was that thing called again?) a very special send off though. Fuck spez 4ever!

wizardbeard,
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

the piracy debacle

Think I missed this. What piracy debacle?

Kierunkowy74,
Kierunkowy74 avatar

Lemmy.world removed Piracy as a external community. Again

Pandantic,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

The basics: .world defederated from piracy comms in other instances as to not have liability in pirated material hosted on their servers. I’m cool with them making that decision, but I’d rather be in a more open, free instance so I moved.

ada,
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Lemmy started for me in December 2022. By that point, I’d been on the fediverse for 6 months or so. The Twitter implosion had just happened the month before, and I finally realised how sick of centralised social media I was. Reddit was the only one I was using, though I barely touched it because of the moderation, and so I went looking for alternatives.

I found lemmy.ml, and saw the potential of the concept. A month later, in January 2023 my partner and I were running an instance (we already ran a regular fediverse instance). The lemmy instance was basically just a single person instance. Sign ups were open, but lemmy was quiet back then, so the few people that joined left again. My partner barely used lemmy, so it was basically a single person instance.

And then the reddit implosion happened, and suddenly we found ourselves running a fully fledged lemmy instance, with more users than our “main” instance. And that was really the moment that I got more serious about lemmy too. The increase in community size and engagement transformed the experience.

I’ve never been back to reddit since I left in December 2022, but I didn’t delete my account until 2023 during the reddit exodus.

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

I used Sync for Reddit since 2011 or so, that’s how I accessed Reddit 99% of the time. Then they just announced sorry, no more app. For me leaving Sync was akin to leaving Reddit anyway, and someone posted about Lemmy, I learned about the Fediverse, and I came over.

Now when I need to google something and Reddit pops up it feels… overencumbered . Heavy, too much going on with it. Lemmy feels clean, simple, what Reddit used to be. I won’t be leaving any time soon.

Naz,

I began using Lemmy abruptly after quitting Reddit after the API fiasco of last year. With the third party apps on Lemmy like Voyager (lol), picking up the slack.

People don’t give a shit what service or server it’s hosted on, as long as it’s free and they can continue to interact with other users, because that’s ultimately, what matters, the community.

If you were having a party with some friends watching the Superbowl and some random corporate ass clowns came in and said: “Pack it up, we’re charging you for the privilege of talking to each other and also we’re selling your conversations on the Internet”, you’d give them a swift kick in the ass.

The content is yours, you made it, you spent the effort, the mental energy, the loss of actual lifetime to create it, post it, and share it with the world.

And then they want an IPO and pat themselves on the back for stealing. Get the fuck outta here, y’know?

Lemmy rules.

QuarterSwede,
@QuarterSwede@lemmy.world avatar

Ditto.

Spez can get fucked. Lying asshole.

solidgrue, (edited )
@solidgrue@lemmy.world avatar

Thirded. Joined Kbin and Lemmy.world about the time the reddit Blackout started and settled in pretty quickly. Haven’t looked back, except only to backup then nuke all my content at the old place. No regrets.

Want it, spez? Go get it from your own backups.

SalineSolutions,

Found this during the Reddit diaspora. Tried it for weeks. Left. Came back once a month. Still not committed to this place but i still check in and post.

Too much FOSS/Linux evangelism here. Still too little activity in communities centered on my interests. The vibes are… not great here but I’m not giving up on it. I just don’t think “my” people are here yet

cyclohexane,

What communities do you wish existed here or were more active?

communism,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve known about lemmy and the fediverse for ages, applied to join a mastodon instance a while back but never heard back. Joined lemmy recently because !unixporn was created and I wanted to talk about linux on an actually privacy respecting floss platform rather than one of the mainstream proprietary social medias. I like it, a good middle ground between modern social media models and more old school forum vibes.

Edits: been figuring out how to link a community on lemmy lmao. Now I know

PaulSmackage,
@PaulSmackage@hexbear.net avatar

Chapo got banned, checked out chapo.chat, found the “under construction” page with what i think was “call me maybe” as a chiptune playing, and joined a little while after.

D61,

r/chapo diaspora, spent a week on the Discord that popped up and it was just too much for my old eyes. Shifted to chapochat (now hexbear) and got all comfy.

DinosaurThussy,
@DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net avatar

I first joined up almost 4 years ago following the r/chapotraphouse ban. It feels like it’s been so much longer.

some_guy,

Last summer when the old site had a protest. Left for two weeks at the same time that I stopped checking Google News. Felt happier. Tried adding Lemmy back but not news. Still works ok.

mp3,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

Four years ago on my original account when I discovered it. I participated once in a while in parallel to Reddit, then when Spez shat the bed I removed myself from modding any Reddit communities and logged off for good.

waterbogan,

I joined on here a bit over 9 months ago after I was permabanned from reddit for ??? reason after I posted a Google Streetview link of a layby. This happened to coincide with the third party API fuckup and several other irrational and counterproductive changes so I arrived here right in the middle of a period of huge growth. I havent left since then per se but have had periods of reduced activity. Have started another profile on reddit (which was stupidly easy) as there are still a number of niche communities there that have no activity on their equivalent communities here. Am settled, and will likely gradually spend more time here as reddit management continue to find more feet to shoot themselves in

vortexal,
@vortexal@lemmy.ml avatar

I started using Lemmy a few years ago because of the blackout that happened then (the one that started because they hired a known pedophile apologist as an admin). When Reddit fired her and made what they considered an apology, I continued to use both just simply because I didn’t like the fact that their apology sounded like they were disappointed in the community for not supporting pedophilia.

When the second blackout happened (the one caused by the API changes) I didn’t support the statements that Spez was spouting about the app developers. At first I waited to see what their response was to the blackout but they, more specifically Spez, made it obvious that they didn’t care, so I deleted my Reddit account and started only using Lemmy.

nutsack,

third party Android apps

ColeSloth,

I had a LOT of reddit use over 15 years, but moved over here right after the API use fiasco caused my browsing apk I used to stop working. Between that and the general degradation of reddit over the last 5 years, it was time to jump ship. Found an apk called Thunder that works very similar to what I used on reddit.

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