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?
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It’s a vibrant community all of the sudden!
I saw it on hacker news and wanted to check it out as I intended to delete my Reddit account but wanted a new home where I could get my info fix. I came, I saw, I deleted my Reddit account and here I am :)
Hacker news was my fix last Monday and it always delivers!
I found out about it during the recent Reddit shitstorm.
If I remember correctly, I found Lemmy while looking into how to ‘de-google’ my phone
From a comment on Reddit.
I think I was looking for open source software and there was a section for social media
I definitely found out about Lemmy and Kbin through Reddit. I was familiar with Mastodon before all of this stuff started going on but Lemmy came onto my radar this month. I think someone in r/apolloapp asked Christian if he was going to port Apollo to be a Lemmy client was when it came into my radar, but it may have been shortly before that.
Reddit has been banning/deleting comments and subreddits dedicated to Lemmy or Kbin—unless someone notices, then they un-delete or un-ban
Interesting. Up until a few days ago, there was a subreddit devoted to Reddit alternatives. It’s how I learned about kbin and other options.
Some of the posts were, let’s say, suspiciously negative. Lemmy/kbin were supposedly impossible to sign up for unless you had at least 2 degrees in CS. (I managed, somehow) Oh, and lemmy is run by tankies. (Wouldn’t care if it were). And it looks like hot garbage. (I like it well enough. It’s easier on the eyes than new or old reddit imo)
It seemed like there were too many alternatives to make a rational choice, but ALSO “they all suck so don’t bother.” It sounded overwhelming, but I just said fuckit and picked one.
I wasn’t expecting a fully formed set of communities and content or a perfectly polished interface. And I wasn’t expecting the interface to be filled with tons of features or to have no learning curve. This is actually a lot nicer that what I expected, which was a very new/basic site that will need to do a lot of growing.
Sounds like the Streisand Effect is working.
I happened upon one comment in r/TrackMania so it was totally coincidental. But I’m happy I found it. Otherwise I’d probably still be there or had searched for alternatives which might’ve lead to me ending up here anyway.
Can’t remember. Probably 2 weeks ago on a random reddit thread.
I found it on the reddit mod Discord server in the list of alternatives.
r/rust a few years ago
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 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.
Saw kbin mentioned in a verge article comment section during the reddit coverage.
