I didn’t come here directly after reddit. Stopped off at mastodon first, but it was too twitter-like for my taste. Saw Lemmy on a list of alternatives, and this place scratches the itch pretty well.

When the Reddit API thing was going down I was looking for a place to jump ship before Apollo went down and Lemmy was one of the options. I found Voyager and later I joined other parts of the Fediverse

The great Reddit migration when 3rd party devs realized how much Reddit would charge them to use Reddit’s API in order to serve information to their apps. RiF was my shit.

I love Lemmy now though. Its federated nature, while abnormal and at times not the easiest to explain, has me hopeful for the cyberspace future that isn’t fully dictated by corporations. Using Fdroid, getting over the hump from Chrome to Firefox, and now the prospects of switching entire OSs from Windows to Linux are within my visibility now, when before I was comfortable in my corporate bubble.

Think the next thing I need to start taking strides on after Linux is privacy. I still keep my passwords locked under OneDrive Vault and a password protected OneNote. Should probably dump that and move over to keypass or some other password manager. I just don’t want to have to pay for a service right now on a recurring basis unless I choose to to support the devs.

I was on reddit when the api changes happened, after that (and the canvas) i deleted my account over there and went here.

im was banned in reddit because… i accidentally wrote lgor360 (first letter: L) instead of Igor360 (first letter: I) and reddit thought i was pretending to be a person with a nickname Igor360 (first letter: I and yes there is a person with such a nickname on reddit) and ban me…

I was a r/196 user during the API change

i used the android app “reddit is fun”. i had stopped using reddit well before the api and public offering drama so i had absolutely no idea it was going on. i needed to get an answer to a question and the google search led to a reddit link. typically i normally chose web links, but this time i said, what the hell, and opened the link with rif. then i read the changelog of the app. that pointed to a lemmy instance for rif (which does not have a lemmy version btw) and that’s where i caught up on all the bullshit i missed during the intervening 3 years.

ps i also have a .ml account. it was the easiest one to create an account with at the time. if i could transfer all the stats and comments i made with this account and transfer it to one that allowed swearing (for instance you can’t use the word that describes selling one’s self for money or other favors that sounds similar to a garden tool called a hoe) i’d do it.

Reddit API drama >> kbin.social >> lemmy.world

Lemmy was mentioned few times when people were discussing leaving Reddit. When the purge date came I installed Jerboa.

My main reddit app was switching over to make a lemmy app. The app (boost) is my personal favorite, so I figured lemmy was the better of any of the reddit alternatives. It’s larger userbase was also a good sign of it life expectancy.

When Elmo bought Twitter I moved to Mastodon, when Reddit got rid of third party apps and the API changes I asked on Mastodon if there’s is a Fediverse Reddit, not really expecting a yes.

The one thing that does my head in about Lemmy is how USA centric it is.

I started using Lemmy because, after a previous Reddit blackout a few years, the CEO of Reddit (Steve Huffman, AKA Spez) released a statement that (while I’ve long sense forgotten exactly what he said) made it seem like he was disappointed in the Reddit community for not supporting pedophilia. I used alternativeto.net to find Reddit alternatives and, because Lemmy wasn’t at the top of the list at the time, I used a few other websites before using Lemmy. At first I used both simultaneously but I deleted my Reddit account after the API changes.

It was part of my crusade to “Fediverse-sify” my internet experience. I started in Mastodon, then I added a Pixelfed account, then a Peertube one, then this Lemmy account (Which gave me a lot of good experiences) and now I’m trying Loops (a TikTok-like) and Wafrn (a Tumblr-like).

Overall, I’m in love with the Fediverse.

I found out about lemmy from the announcement for boost for lemmy(i had been using boost for reddit for about a week since then)

EMPRESS moved here after getting banned from Reddit, so I moved. She got banned from ml shortly afterwards; but i stuck with here since i liked the concept.