Your journey with Lemmy: When and why did you join? When did you leave and come back? Are you finally settled?

My journey with Lemmy started in 2022 out of interest in the fediverse and paranoia around how much control social media companies have, and how little choice common people are left with over the Internet.

Lemmy was much smaller back then. I really wanted it go get bigger, and tried to contribute to it. But it was small enough to be unsatisfying, so I would go back and forth between lemmy and Reddit.

After the Reddit fiasco, I shifted more and more towards lemmy and less towards Reddit. I finally abandoned Reddit when third party apps broke. I only go there for specific questions in communities that aren't active on lemmy.

What about you?

SalineSolutions ,
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Found this during the Reddit diaspora. Tried it for weeks. Left. Came back once a month. Still not committed to this place but i still check in and post.

Too much FOSS/Linux evangelism here.
Still too little activity in communities centered on my interests.
The vibes are... not great here but I'm not giving up on it. I just don't think "my" people are here yet

cyclohexane OP ,

What communities do you wish existed here or were more active?

communism ,
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I've known about lemmy and the fediverse for ages, applied to join a mastodon instance a while back but never heard back. Joined lemmy recently because !unixporn was created and I wanted to talk about linux on an actually privacy respecting floss platform rather than one of the mainstream proprietary social medias. I like it, a good middle ground between modern social media models and more old school forum vibes.

Edits: been figuring out how to link a community on lemmy lmao. Now I know

PaulSmackage ,
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Chapo got banned, checked out chapo.chat, found the "under construction" page with what i think was "call me maybe" as a chiptune playing, and joined a little while after.

D61 ,

r/chapo diaspora, spent a week on the Discord that popped up and it was just too much for my old eyes. Shifted to chapochat (now hexbear) and got all comfy.

DinosaurThussy ,
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I first joined up almost 4 years ago following the r/chapotraphouse ban. It feels like it’s been so much longer.

some_guy ,

Last summer when the old site had a protest. Left for two weeks at the same time that I stopped checking Google News. Felt happier. Tried adding Lemmy back but not news. Still works ok.

mp3 ,
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Four years ago on my original account when I discovered it. I participated once in a while in parallel to Reddit, then when Spez shat the bed I removed myself from modding any Reddit communities and logged off for good.

waterbogan ,

I joined on here a bit over 9 months ago after I was permabanned from reddit for ????? reason after I posted a Google Streetview link of a layby. This happened to coincide with the third party API fuckup and several other irrational and counterproductive changes so I arrived here right in the middle of a period of huge growth. I havent left since then per se but have had periods of reduced activity. Have started another profile on reddit (which was stupidly easy) as there are still a number of niche communities there that have no activity on their equivalent communities here. Am settled, and will likely gradually spend more time here as reddit management continue to find more feet to shoot themselves in

vortexal ,
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I started using Lemmy a few years ago because of the blackout that happened then (the one that started because they hired a known pedophile apologist as an admin). When Reddit fired her and made what they considered an apology, I continued to use both just simply because I didn't like the fact that their apology sounded like they were disappointed in the community for not supporting pedophilia.

When the second blackout happened (the one caused by the API changes) I didn't support the statements that Spez was spouting about the app developers. At first I waited to see what their response was to the blackout but they, more specifically Spez, made it obvious that they didn't care, so I deleted my Reddit account and started only using Lemmy.

nutsack ,

third party Android apps

ColeSloth ,

I had a LOT of reddit use over 15 years, but moved over here right after the API use fiasco caused my browsing apk I used to stop working. Between that and the general degradation of reddit over the last 5 years, it was time to jump ship. Found an apk called Thunder that works very similar to what I used on reddit.

Makeshift ,

Fuck Steve Huffman should be all I need to say. Came from Apollo.

I’m not fully settled though. I’ll probably end up making an account on another instance or two, and check out Mastodon. I was never a Twitter person but hey why not try new (similar but different) things? But I also don’t feel rushed to do any of that.

frostmore ,

reddit went woke with woke moderators freely accusing and labeling anyone who who does not conform a phobe of something convenient for them.

fuck reddit and those power tripping woke ass mods.

Cowbee ,
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You're on a far more "woke" platform.

SalineSolutions ,
@SalineSolutions@reddthat.com avatar

Is the "woke" in the room with us now?

andrew ,
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Joined last year when Apollo was forced to shut down like many of us. I’d been a huge fan of federated social media and decided this was the time to finally kick my Reddit addiction. So far Lemmy has completely scratched the itch and I rarely check Reddit anymore. That in itself has been a huge win and every month it’s just more and more upside as the communities get stronger.

I ended up starting a dedicated Magic: the Gathering instance at https://mtgzone.com for anyone interested. We’re small but growing!

gkpy ,

i joined mastodon in 2017. at the time i was also cutting off whatsapp and facebook and was just generally getting deeper into foss and fedi.

at the same time i was a heavy reddit user and was looking for fedi-based alternatives. i was following prismo development for a while, but that never took off.

i eventually joined lemmy in 2020 but never really found the community, that reddit had (and tbf still has for most topics).

last year during the API fiasco i finally made this account and have been pretty happily reading (and sometimes posting) here.

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