• spitz@lemmy.ml
    18·
    1 year ago

    I joined Mastodon when Musk took over Twitter. That didn’t really work out. So I stuck to Reddit. Then spez started up with the API nonsense, and I kept seeing stuff about Lemmy. Checked it out, and here I am.

  • Ab_intra@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    I joined after the shitstorm that Reddit made the community go trough. It’s a worse website now because of the changes to the API where they now take money for using it. They now have to charge the user for using their apps. Basically making it easy for me to stop using reddit entirely.

    Tip for you guys that still want to use an app but don’t know about it: geddit is a free app that scrape RSS to let you browse reddit. I’ve used it more and more to get used to it. It’s pretty good but since it doesn’t use rhe API you can’t comment or bookmark stuff. You can however watch NSFW stuff but it doesn’t work that well compared to how Relay for instance did it back when apps where allowed to show NSFW content…

    • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      Same here. Never looked back. Lemmy + mastodon are both amazing and I love that there are no ads or manipulative algorithms.

      Now testing pixelfed.

      • MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I actually do want a discovery algorithm of some sort, but it will have to be restricted to its own tab instead of dominating the entire platform.

  • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I was a reddit refugee from the whole spez thing. Lemmy being a potentially viable alternative kept me around through the growing pains.

    I like writing long, informative comments on occasion, and rather than let reddit own them, I’d rather we all own them. That’s all.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy on June 9th. The day before reddit died. There were 1.21k users on this instance back then. All of Lemmy looked like it was less than around 5-6k users total, and most were not active. There were less than a dozen communities I would call active, on all major instances combined. Beehaw and .ml were the biggest, but that is not saying much at the time. Kbin was totally defederated from everyone back then.

  • davidgro@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    My lemmy.ml account is now over 3 years old.

    I had forgotten about it when all this reddit stuff started, and thought it wasn’t letting me sign up (there’s a bug that existing usernames just make it sit and spin instead of letting you know it’s taken)

    … I just checked and my Mastodon account is nearly 5 years old. I’d guess my Matrix is around there also.

  • Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    Like some of us, a few weeks before the end of Apollo on Reddit. Been enjoying the ride so far, with its ups and downs.

  • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Made the switch as soon as sync shut down on reddit. Then, tried my best to figure this place out so I had a decent head start when sync reopened for lemmy! Been here ever since.

  • maniel@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    I started earlier this year with mastodon, not like I migrated from Twitter or something, never felt the need to use micro blogging service

  • t�m@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    This account technically, but I was interacting more on mastodon in the early days.