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.
WAFRN WAFRN WAFRN!
Lemmy was mentioned few times when people were discussing leaving Reddit. When the purge date came I installed Jerboa.
Same, then tried other apps before sticking with Sync.
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.
I tried it near to when it first launched, I had been hoping for a Fediverse replacement for Reddit ever since Mastodon (I liked the idea of Mastodon but I wasn't a big Twitter user). It was pretty inactive back then and didn't cover enough subjects I was interested in to hold me initially. Then I came over fully with the Reddit exodus.
Someone sent a mod mail to a sub i moderated about it.
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.
Initially made an account on lemmy.ml in 2022. I was eyeing the fediverse, and when I found that there is a "reddit alternative", I wanted to check it out, but there wasn't much activity so I didn't use it much other than checking on it occasionally.
Then in 2023 I made an account on tchncs...when majority of users also hopped on lemmy.
I knew about it during the api thing. I would have switched over but I realized I could patch boost and use it anyway. However I've made some unhinged rants that were horribly worded on throwaway accounts and got ip banned. Every account I make is immediately permabanned. I wish muttr didn't shut down so I could just vent the unspeakable there. Wasn't worth it since I'm always going to be completely alone.
Someone posted on one of the subreddits I used to read, and I tried it out. I stopped using reddit because of the API thing and a general dislike of private consolidation that you get with sites like it.
It's been fine. Some rough edges but worth it.
Reddit has become too political, with inconsistent censoring. Also didn’t love the bullshit with the API costs. Seemed like a power move to push small devs out
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