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?

Tier1BuildABear ,
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I've unfortunately found myself back on reddit here and there for some niche communities, and also to just not be so depressed by the news, politics, and Linux that permeates EVERY FUCKING COMMUNITY regardless of the focus of that community. We all seriously need to branch out here a bit.

cyclohexane OP ,

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

Tier1BuildABear ,
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Just some nerdy things I'm into, and also the "fun" subs, so like retro handhelds, rubik's cubes, lightsabers, knives, stuff like that and then just the general "funny" and "meme-y" subs, I know they exist here but it's always depressing or political or boring-dystopia-esque and I need more light hearted stuff lol

dandroid ,

I created my first account in June of 2023, like many of us, I'm sure.

Now that I have RIF back via Vanced, I spend a lot of time in both places. The communities that I want to engage with just aren't here. But when I want Linux news, this is my place to go.

I had my own instance for about 10 months. I started it when I was frustrated at the downtime all the big instances had. But now they seem a lot more stable, so I shut down my instance.

Gallardo994 ,

Generally because Sync for Reddit died (api bs and shit) and Sync for Lemmy was one of the first results that caught my eye looking for a working client. Haven't looked back since.

sbv ,

My sibling in Sync, you made the right choice.

Aggravationstation ,

Came here when the Reddit 3rd party app threat started looming, loved it and never went back.

Sure, Lemmy doesn't have the same variety and amount of content that's on Reddit but that's because it's a smaller and newer platform along with the fact that not all instances federate with each other (which is great).

I still get my scrolling urge fulfilled and presented with random memes and news that I'm interested in without the data harvesting factor which is perfect for me.

Thorny_Insight ,

Came here about a month before reddit killed 3rd party apps and I've been here ever since. This is hardly a replacement but it sort of scratches the same itch and that's fine by me. YouTube is where I spend most of my time anyway.

I kind of like the slower pace and tighter community here but the content is generally quite uninteresting for someone like me who rather discusses ideas than events or people.

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
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Came here last year during the exodus from Reddit and never looked back.

I only use reddit to troubleshoot tech issues now or occasionally to look up info on some topic I'm researching.

I really enjoy Lemmy, it's the part of the fediverse I use the most. I think federation is the best model for decentralized networks and I like how it feels a little like the old internet, when things weren't totally corpo-controlled and hyper-monetized.

needthosepylons ,
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Quitted reddit during the great exodus and never came back (well of course apart from when a Google search leads me there for an [outdated] answer). Came to Lemmy, never looked back and never left since then. I plan on being here as long as there's an instance standing.

wuphysics87 ,

Quit reddit but still use google tsk tsk

needthosepylons ,
@needthosepylons@lemmy.world avatar

Fair

synae ,
@synae@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

16 years on reddit, they killed my client. Now I'm here, probably forever - I don't expect there will be any permanent issue with the protocol so from here on out it's just a matter of federation/moderation/blocking the right things

jack ,

The thing that I dislike about lemmy is that we all share a boat (instance) with a lot of other people. If the boat owners drill holes into the boat (defederate with instances) we all sink.

I'd like to settle on a platform that scales better and gives more reliability (no dependence on instance admins).

But lemmy is fine for now.

WeirdGoesPro ,
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How do you have reliability without servers? That is essentially the role of the instance admin—to manage the server.

jack ,

Servers are fine, but your identity shouldn't depend on a single one. On Nostr for example, servers are just there to relay the content to other peers. The servers are interchangeable and you don't depend on any of them.

Sadly, Nostr doesn't have good content and is kinda overrun by crypto bros.

WeirdGoesPro ,
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Give it time. I know there was a lot of discussion about account backup and migration a while back. There is only one full time Lemmy dev, so who knows what the program will look like in a few more years and with a few more dollars for code.

corsicanguppy ,

It doesn't have to be perfect; it just has to be better.

land ,
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When they killed off third-party app support, and Apollo developer exposed Reddit CEO.

Churbleyimyam ,

I joined mastodon just before a big twitter exodus because I was getting into open source, via privacy, and quitting commodity social media. I got Lemmy and Pixelfed accounts not long afterwards because I was passionate about the fediverse. I'm only logged in to fediverse social media now. It's not perfect (it's still social media after all) but it has so much more integrity and feels more real, especially pixelfed which is an absolute peach and which I hope never changes!
I mostly enjoy memes and shitposts here on Lemmy but it's also getting pretty good for mutual help and advice in some communities, which I think is the most valuable thing about this format of social media.

404 ,

Reddit exodus last year. I like it here, it's like old Reddit.

jjjalljs ,

When reddit did their API nonsense I was primed to try something else, and someone linked me to lemmy.

It's been fine so far. It hasn't reached the level where you can search [specific problem] lemmy like you can with reddit, yet.

Kierunkowy74 ,
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Vivaldi web browser opening their Mastodon instance brought me to the Fediverse. I started from Mastodon, but became curious of other fedi softwares - /kbin is one of them. I am on kbin.social as my Threadiverse instance in English since April '23, before Reddit API affair.

TexMexBazooka , (edited )

Rolled in after the API fiasco and haven’t left since. I’m very involved with my instance, and feel a genuine sense of community instead of “all of us are screaming into the void”

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