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For me Lemmy was my gateway to the rest of the Fediverse. I can say I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer the engagement feels more real and over all it’s a better vibe. Here’s to 2 more everyone!

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[-] aprehendedmerlin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 week ago

So you're from the first reddit exodus (third party apps ban) in 2023 like me.

[-] Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago

Yep they killed Apollo and I took off running looking for greener pastures I think I went to the right place.

[-] lundi@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

PieFed has wikis and flairs for communities, Feed feature similar to how people can create their own custom feeds on Bluesky and Topics feature to browse content by subject, you can filter posts by keywords (Lemmy has it too but not on the default interface), warning label by the side of the name of people with too many negative karma/points/reputation to make it easier to spot trolls and some other fun things if you ever want to try it out although theres no mobile app for iOS afaik yet if thats a dealbreaker for you, but theres for android https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd/

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I also left when Apollo went down! The grass is much greener here if you ask me.

Same. No Apollo no Reddit. Haven't been back except to delete my account a few weeks later.

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too

[-] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago

I'm in the same boat here, not regretting it at all that I moved on.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Was that two years already? I thought that was last year. Tme flies when you're having fun, I guess.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's why I'm here! :D

The developer of my favorite reddit app (dBrady, Relay for Reddit) decided to play along with Spez's game and start charging for usage.

So I fucked off, and after testing every Lemmy app I could find, I settled on Voyager. It's not optimized for foldables like Relay—and it's swipe gestures aren't as intuitive—but it's close and still better than paying to use reddit.

Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Same here! Though I took a 6-month break in between quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy. I remember hoping it would amount to a feeling of liberation but in reality I just felt out of touch with world events and started scrolling through my Google feed instead, which sucked...

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Is there more than one exodus now? I haven't been keeping track.

[-] lundi@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

AFAIK there was another exodus after they announced to be training AI based on Reddit content, another when they went public, another for starting heavily censoring more the platform (some people a while ago were getting banned just for saying Luigi or upvoting posts with it)

I had no idea they went public

[-] lundi@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

TheVerge covered it nicely

[-] lucelu2@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I don't know if I was part of any major purge or not... I had some temp bans from a bot and then finally a permanent one, just expressing a wish for some blood clot to break free. I mean, it was way less expressive than other posts but I was marked for exit due to violence?!. I felt sad. I deleted an account, made another and then got re-banned within 24 hrs for no specific post, just for trying to overcome the ban... then I did a bit of research and honestly decided they suck, I don't need them and life offers better platforms. I hate this current internet shitification level though. The way I was treated... well, I kind of understand why people decide to be trolls as a lifestyle behavior. I am not a troll though... just a bit rowdy and irreverent.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There was a smaller (?) one a few months ago when reddit started punishing people for upvoting content that went against their ToS.

Edit: here's an article.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

There have been several. Before lemmy there were others that failed.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago
[-] DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

Congrats! This is definitely a better place than reddit.

4 years over here for me, when lemmy.ml was pretty much the only option.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

2 years is coming up for me shortly. I realized not too long ago that I’ve always been interested in Reddit alt. I signed up to… volt? I forgot the name, but the users were awful so I didn’t stick around. I’m glad lemmy worked out.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah voat was pretty much nazi central

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The wiki article says it was up from 2014 to the end of 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voat

[-] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

Wow, thanks for the memories. I waded through the Nazis to get my shitposts on Voat, now I wade through the tankies to get my shitposts here. Reality is a wild and magical thing, isn't it?

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yes! Voat… anyway. Grateful for lemmy.

[-] Goten@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

i already got banned once, so its really THE reddit expirience. xD

[-] lundi@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

PieFed becoming a lot more akin to an evolved Reddit than Lemmy lately with the recent updates

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Is that a positive or native opinion of PieFed? I’m genuinely curious since I’ve never really scrolled through PieFed

[-] IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What makes it better and what were these recent updates? Genuinely curious. I hope there is more than one dev, lest it go the way of mbin or kbin, forgot which one was abandoned.

it was kbin, the first one i registered on because it played nicely mastodon too, and i thought it would be nice to have less tabs permanently open.

now i have accounts on mastodon, dbzer0's lemmy, piefed, pixelfed and even friendica goddamnit it's like collecting pokemon

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[-] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

Happy lemon cake day!

[-] Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Wow. Same here. Haven't logged on since then either. Although I do browse r/printsf in my laptop still... Fediverse is the shit

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Nearly the same for me, but it was closer to the end of June that I moved.

I've not contributed to Reddit since, and only really occasionally browse it from my computer when I'm looking for something in particular now.

Kinda helped by the fact the Reddit I used to enjoy seems to be more or less dead anyway. Weird bot filled comment sections, ads shoved in your face, weird monetising features no one asked for, increasingly weird moderation.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago
[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 4 points 1 week ago

Happy cake day Dave

[-] vatlark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

hey me too! All the best!

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Same here. It's been a blast.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

Has it really been that long...? I can't even tell since I can't log into my OG account anymore to see my join date (yiffit shut down 😭).

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Two years for me, too. But I disagree that it's nicer than on Reddit. The way Lemmy works fosters the development of cliques. Also, with much fewer users it makes it so that 'power' users wind up having a weird cult-like following that boosts their posts/comments and suppresses anyone who dares to point out when those people mistreat other people and/or break the rules that are clearly applied selectively.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Just like old web forums, how nostalgic

[-] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Me too. Happy 2 years everyone!

[-] don@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Happy 2-year! Damn, I’ll coming up on my 2y in a few weeks. Time flies, and I don’t even remember much about xhitter and reddit anymore.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Almost two years for me too. Wow, time flies.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Geez that was a quick two years

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