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?
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.
My sibling in Sync, you made the right choice.
I still don’t feel comfortable here. Lemmy feels too much like an echochamber of the same opinions. The lack of diversity makes me feel more comfortable on tumblr than Lemmy at the moment.
It’s frustrating when I do need to check Reddit for any niche things. I love forums, but find chatrooms like Discord anxiety inducing. Sometimes the only forum for a niche topic is a subreddit :/
Find yourself an instance that doesn’t defederate lemmygrad and hexbear and you’ll find yourself some “diversity.”
Lemm.ee is already like that
What kinds of opinions do you think are lacking? And what niche topics you wish lemmy had communities for?
I’m not the original commenter, but I have a similar experience.
I come to places like Reddit/Lemmy/Mastodon/Twitter to see other views and ideas. Lemmy doesn’t have that - at least for Canadian politics, commenters tend to voice opinions compatible with the current government. Lemmy has an extremely narrow Overton window.
A great example is discussion on Canadian party leaders - when links are posted about the leader of the opposition, commenters generally agree he’s a jerk, totally regressive, and doesn’t have much policy to offer. When links are posted about the prime minister, the consensus is that, as lousy as he is, the leader of the opposition is worse. I agree, but it’s basically the same conversation each time.
The conversation goes roughly the same way when policy issues come up. Posts about the housing crisis inevitably have a comment saying we just need more density or better transit; that Conservative premiers are terrible; etc. These things are true (enough), but there’s not much more than that. Posts about election interference are filled with comments saying US companies are at least as bad as state actors, etc. It’s just a lot of the same.
Generally speaking, I agree with a lot of the points. But I’m not here for that. I’m not interested in reading a comment I disagree with that forces me to think.
tl;dr: the Canadian Lemmy consensus has a tinsy Overton window, and that’s boring.
Reddit was slowly but surely becoming a terrible host for our @RimWorldPorn@rimworld.gallery community (direct link.) Then came the final straw, while we went black we held a vote and a majority voted for the community to move elsewhere. We chose for Mbin, which has turned out a to be a great platform, with the advantage of being part of the fediverse.
I’d personally only used mastodon up to that point, I now hardly ever browse reddit
I moved over after the Reddit API with third party apps thing. Needed to voice my opinion with action
Lemmy is great, I spend way less time with it, it’s a nicer and generally more respectful community, and I’ve learnt a lot more about computers/OSS.
I realised that all my time with Reddit wasn’t actually teaching me anything valuable. I’m now more conscious of my internet usage
This happened to me too. I’m more conscious, I feel like I have more free time and am more creative. It’s a life upgrade somehow.
Reddit exodus last year. I like it here, it’s like old Reddit.
When they killed off third-party app support, and Apollo developer exposed Reddit CEO.
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.
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
[] lemmylike you can with reddit, yet.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.
My journey on Lemmy is a part of my journey to be on every site. I have the world record for the most sites having signed up for. Even had I not signed up for genuine interest, I probably wasn’t going to not sign up for Lemmy. I gotta be the best like no one ever was.
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.
It doesn’t have to be perfect; it just has to be better.
How do you have reliability without servers? That is essentially the role of the instance admin—to manage the server.
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.
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.
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
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.
Quit reddit but still use google tsk tsk
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.
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.
