For me Lemmy was my gateway to the rest of the Fediverse. I can say I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer the engagement feels more real and over all it’s a better vibe. Here’s to 2 more everyone!

  • @[email protected]
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    141 month ago

    2 years is coming up for me shortly. I realized not too long ago that I’ve always been interested in Reddit alt. I signed up to… volt? I forgot the name, but the users were awful so I didn’t stick around. I’m glad lemmy worked out.

  • aprehendedmerlin
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    781 month ago

    So you’re from the first reddit exodus (third party apps ban) in 2023 like me.

    • @[email protected]
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      That’s why I’m here! :D

      The developer of my favorite reddit app (dBrady, Relay for Reddit) decided to play along with Spez’s game and start charging for usage.

      So I fucked off, and after testing every Lemmy app I could find, I settled on Voyager. It’s not optimized for foldables like Relay—and it’s swipe gestures aren’t as intuitive—but it’s close and still better than paying to use reddit.

      Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez

    • @[email protected]
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      101 month ago

      Was that two years already? I thought that was last year. Tme flies when you’re having fun, I guess.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      431 month ago

      Yep they killed Apollo and I took off running looking for greener pastures I think I went to the right place.

      • Harvey656
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        51 month ago

        I also left when Apollo went down! The grass is much greener here if you ask me.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        Same. No Apollo no Reddit. Haven’t been back except to delete my account a few weeks later.

      • lundi
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        141 month ago

        PieFed has wikis and flairs for communities, Feed feature similar to how people can create their own custom feeds on Bluesky and Topics feature to browse content by subject, you can filter posts by keywords (Lemmy has it too but not on the default interface), warning label by the side of the name of people with too many negative karma/points/reputation to make it easier to spot trolls and some other fun things if you ever want to try it out although theres no mobile app for iOS afaik yet if thats a dealbreaker for you, but theres for android https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd/

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too

      • trashcan
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        There was a smaller (?) one a few months ago when reddit started punishing people for upvoting content that went against their ToS.

        Edit: here’s an article.

      • lundi
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        101 month ago

        AFAIK there was another exodus after they announced to be training AI based on Reddit content, another when they went public, another for starting heavily censoring more the platform (some people a while ago were getting banned just for saying Luigi or upvoting posts with it)

        • lucelu2
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          51 month ago

          I don’t know if I was part of any major purge or not… I had some temp bans from a bot and then finally a permanent one, just expressing a wish for some blood clot to break free. I mean, it was way less expressive than other posts but I was marked for exit due to violence?!. I felt sad. I deleted an account, made another and then got re-banned within 24 hrs for no specific post, just for trying to overcome the ban… then I did a bit of research and honestly decided they suck, I don’t need them and life offers better platforms. I hate this current internet shitification level though. The way I was treated… well, I kind of understand why people decide to be trolls as a lifestyle behavior. I am not a troll though… just a bit rowdy and irreverent.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      Same here! Though I took a 6-month break in between quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy. I remember hoping it would amount to a feeling of liberation but in reality I just felt out of touch with world events and started scrolling through my Google feed instead, which sucked…

  • don
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    81 month ago

    Happy 2-year! Damn, I’ll coming up on my 2y in a few weeks. Time flies, and I don’t even remember much about xhitter and reddit anymore.

  • trashcan
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    71 month ago

    Almost two years for me too. Wow, time flies.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    “I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer”

    punches you in the face

    Oh, yeah. Totally agree

    punches you in the balls

    Over on reddit, there are all kinds of fascists, and literal nazis.

    uppercuts you

    Over here, theres an instance full of tankies, but you can avoid them.

    kicks you in the shins

    The people here are TOTALLY nicer!

    kick kick punch

    What? I’m not attacking you to be violent. I just have a neurological disorder that causes my limbs to involuntarily thrash out.

    punch

    I’m TOTALLY being friendly right now!

    kick punch it’s all in the mind

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      One instance? There’s at least two. But does that really matter? Reddit had r/TheDonald and r/conservative, and trying to those people to fuck off and stop proselytizing elsewhere was like trying to play whack-a-mole against an anthill.

      Here, you block the tankie instances and move on with your life.

    • PastafARRian
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      21 month ago

      This kind of self-critical comment no longer exists on Reddit, lol. Appreciate it.

  • go $fsck yourself
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    21 month ago

    Two years for me, too. But I disagree that it’s nicer than on Reddit. The way Lemmy works fosters the development of cliques. Also, with much fewer users it makes it so that ‘power’ users wind up having a weird cult-like following that boosts their posts/comments and suppresses anyone who dares to point out when those people mistreat other people and/or break the rules that are clearly applied selectively.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 month ago

    Nearly the same for me, but it was closer to the end of June that I moved.

    I’ve not contributed to Reddit since, and only really occasionally browse it from my computer when I’m looking for something in particular now.

    Kinda helped by the fact the Reddit I used to enjoy seems to be more or less dead anyway. Weird bot filled comment sections, ads shoved in your face, weird monetising features no one asked for, increasingly weird moderation.