For me a social media in a linux distro called blendos and because reddit sucks and is soo toxic man
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Found it mentioned as an alternative when Reddit announced their API changes.
yeah… it was literally all over Reddit. I also remember the lemmy vs. kbin discussions.
When Reddit shut down 3rd party apps. I only used Joey for a single reason, it autohides post after scrolling past them very well, it was the only way reddit is tolerable is by only seeing a post once. Now I use Connect which has a similar autohide feature and I am enjoying Lemmy a lot more than i ever did reddit.
Joey was the best. I came here before Joey died, but the day it died for good I only went to Reddit once. I talked mad shit to a particularly horrible mod and got my account permanently banned. Haven’t looked back since.
I sure wish codesforliving would create a joey for lemmy. I’d pay for that again in a heartbeat. One of the best apps I ever had.
Same reason here, my 3rd party app was BaconReader and now using Connect. I didn’t know Connect had an auto hide feature, I’ll have to check that out.
I have “scrolling past marks as read” enabled, and then in my Lemmy account setting I have “show read posts” disabled, so it hides basically anything I’ve already seen. Comes in handy :)
During the Reddit API stuff, same as most of the folks here. I tried kbin first but lack of an API or mobile app at the time pushed me to Lemmy instead.
I eventually caved and started using the official Reddit app, but I still check here as well - less content but I like the vibes here. Reddit hasn’t been the same since the protests - might just be bias but I feel like ‘brain drain’ was real and quality discussions over there are a little less frequent than before.
reddit locking their api was the last straw for me. so i wanted to stand up a reddit clone to fill that hole for me and others.
surfin the githubs for federating platforms… lemmy was fugly, i started with kbin.
i ended up with an mbin instance so i could connect to mastodon as well as all the lemmy content/users.
That instance name.
Reddit APIcalypse. Downloaded Jerboa and came to World after I saw a post in the middle of it.
I read about and liked the concept of the Fediverse, opened a few accounts across various platforms, quickly got bored with the small userbase. Then reddit did their thing with the API, I wanted to stop using it entirely, and enough people also migrated to Lemmy at the same time that this is now a level of users and activity to hold my interest.
Same. The fediverse brought me here!
Reddit, both questions. Jumped ship the day the API died.
Reddit. Came here in the API to exodus and never went back. I use my phone less too.
I actually heard of Tildes first on reddit, so I tried to get a signup invite but couldn’t. I think I eventually saw Lemmy mentioned and saw how the signup process was easier.
never really heard of tides tbh
When it was a bit too much with all the enshittification and bots on Reddit, I wanted alternatives. Lemmy was a suggestion, and I’ve had a good experience thus far.
Knowledge of lemmy was the last great gift that Reddit gave me before it finally completed its transformation to shit.
I had been keeping an eye on Lemmy for years and years. I’m an open source, federated service enthusiast so Lemmy was always just something I was aware of.
I heard more and more about it in the time between reddit announcing their API changes and the actual last day RIF was usable unmodded. Then RIF suggested lemmy.world, but so many people were signing up that the page wouldn’t load right, and I went in search of another instance. I signed up with both slrpnk.net and midwest.social and have been here ever since.
Banned from Reddit for suggesting that certain cult members should in fact drink the flavor aide.
what
Reddit API fiasco. Practical issue since I didn’t want to use Reddit’s shitty app for my phone browsing and it was just the writing on the walls.
