I know there are a lot of us who came here from Reddit, so I kinda want to know why and how you fellas got here, and from where.

Bonus points if you explain why you’re excited about Lemmy and the Fediverse, or, alternatively, share why your worried or annoyed at Lemmy and the Fediverse.

I’ll go first: I was really tired of putting Reddit at the end of every Google search, and so I decided that I’d probably get better results from the same crowd of people (techie, open-source privacy geeks like myself lol) from the Fediverse. I originally wanted to join /kbin (not sure if that’s how it’s formatted) but I noticed that they didn’t have an Android app, so I went with Lemmy for now until kbin has an app I can use. I struggled to decide what instance I wanted to use, but eventually decided to join Lemdro.id because, well, I enjoy android I guess. (And it doesn’t really matter) I’m excited to see what happens with the whole Threads thing, as well as the Fediverse at large, considering the massive growth most platforms are experiencing at the moment. It sounds corny, but I feel like I’m a part of a new chapter in the Internet and the world’s history, you know? I mean I’m not exactly an early adopter, but I’m earlier than everyone after me, you know? I am worried about the same social issues that plagued reddit appearing here, which would make me sad. I just don’t want to see the same political discourse on the Fediverse, because otherwise, what actually sets us apart from regular vanilla reddit, then?

(Edit) Sorry for the confusion, I didn’t mean for reddit-migration stories specifically, I just wanted to talk about how we all got here!

  • projectmoon
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    21 year ago

    The API changes were coming, and the increasingly deranged decisions and actions of the CEO and administration just made me switch over in mid June. Just stopped using it. Haven’t looked back since.

    Did also delete as many comments as possible via API before they shut it down.

    Not doing anything drastic like blocking Reddit via extension or DNS. Just not using it and trying not to give more traffic to the site.