• spitz@lemmy.ml
    30·
    2 years 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.

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
    14·
    2 years ago

    Last November, Seattle Bike Blog posted about a “mostly Seattle-based transit-loving” Mastodon server (social.ridetrans.it), and it sounded great to me (and still is!). But coming to Lemmy around the Reddit blackout (I was a RIF user for probably 10+ years) was what really got me interested in the fediverse as a whole.

    • Daniel@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      a “mostly Seattle-based transit-loving” Mastodon

      I think one of the greatest powers of the federation is that you can join a niche community and still get the rest of the content. It’s pretty amazing.

  • Ab_intra@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years 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…

  • val@infosec.pub
    4·
    2 years ago

    I technically started with Lemmy pretty early, long before any of the Reddit exit stuff, but it was hyper focused on politics still and I feel like spending that much time talking politics online is extremely unhealthy. I was really only interested in a hobby forum with the Reddit format that didn’t have the suffocating debate bro culture.

    I started lurking since the Reddit exit stuff to see if it would grow enough to support other topics. It has, but I’m not certain if I’ll stay. Unsurprisingly an influx in Redditors has made this place culturally a lot more like Reddit, for the worse.

    I also dabbled in Mastodon years ago but I’ve never particularly liked the Twitter format so a federated clone didn’t really gel with me.

    • Daniel@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      culturally a lot more like Reddit, for the worse.

      I have to agree with you… but, the good thing is is that we don’t have karma farming!

  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    4·
    2 years ago

    mental outlaw got me on mastodon and i found peertube randomly (puffy.tube instance) my peertube videos are still unavailable since i think puffytube doesn’t really operate i probably will check and Reddit api incident got me to go to fling up, lemmy and kbin

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years 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.

  • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years 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