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Can't remember. Probably 2 weeks ago on a random reddit thread.
Reddit has been banning/deleting comments and subreddits dedicated to Lemmy or Kbinβunless someone notices, then they un-delete or un-ban
Interesting. Up until a few days ago, there was a subreddit devoted to Reddit alternatives. It's how I learned about kbin and other options.
Some of the posts were, let's say, suspiciously negative. Lemmy/kbin were supposedly impossible to sign up for unless you had at least 2 degrees in CS. (I managed, somehow) Oh, and lemmy is run by tankies. (Wouldn't care if it were). And it looks like hot garbage. (I like it well enough. It's easier on the eyes than new or old reddit imo)
It seemed like there were too many alternatives to make a rational choice, but ALSO "they all suck so don't bother." It sounded overwhelming, but I just said fuckit and picked one.
I wasn't expecting a fully formed set of communities and content or a perfectly polished interface. And I wasn't expecting the interface to be filled with tons of features or to have no learning curve. This is actually a lot nicer that what I expected, which was a very new/basic site that will need to do a lot of growing.
Sounds like the Streisand Effect is working.
I saw it on hacker news and wanted to check it out as I intended to delete my Reddit account but wanted a new home where I could get my info fix. I came, I saw, I deleted my Reddit account and here I am :)
I followed a link from a comment from r/menopause. If us old farts can figure out how to get here in between hot flashes, anyone can.
After I saw the AMA with spez, I didn't have any hope for reddit being useable anymore. So I googled for something else to do my doom scrolling. I ran across a 4 year old YouTube video explaining the fediverse. Then I googled fediverse reddit alternative, and here I am. I wish I would have found out about all of this a long time ago.
I caught the post about reddit censoring mentions of lemmy that made it to the front page. Streisand effect.
If I remember correctly, I found Lemmy while looking into how to 'de-google' my phone
From a comment on Reddit.
I found out about it during the recent Reddit shitstorm.
Came here after leaving Reddit and looking for alternatives. Happy to be here and Iβm never going back.
Honestly, when I first came here, I entirely expected that Reddit would eventually cave and I'd return to it. I expected the Fediverse to fail. But instead Reddit has doubled down and the Fediverse has rapidly gotten considerably better. I'm intending to stay here.
Though admittedly I do worry about some smaller subs. Eg, my local city sub was fairly active on Reddit and was a great place to get local recommendations, learn about stuff going on, etc. I ended up making the community myself (@[email protected]), but there's yet to be any other subscribers (though this does remind me to go post about it in subs for the province).
Found out about Lemmy a while ago the through an app that existed for it (Lemmur) due to weird search of Fdroid, when the shit hit the fan I just followed the crowd.
From comment on Reddit
I think I was looking for open source software and there was a section for social media
Came across a reference to it on Reddit. I didn't do anything at the time, but when I came across two or three more references to it just before the blackout I thought I'd give it a try.
Reddit. Someone mentioned Lemmy in r/apolloapp. Some were upset knowing the news that Apollo would be shutting down by the end of the month so folks started mentioning alternatives. I welcome the change βΊοΈ.
Saw kbin mentioned in a verge article comment section during the reddit coverage.
I went to see MotΓΆrhead at Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg around 1986 and there he was, center stage.
Oh. I learned about lemmy a while back after searching something like "fediverse like reddit". I didn't join until this year. I didn't know about the API wars until afterward.
I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?
The RedditAlternatives sub is about 10 years old. Fediverse sub 5 years. The Lemmy sub is newish, only 1 year.
I found it on the reddit mod Discord server in the list of alternatives.
Was looking at reddit alternatives on.... reddit. Lemmy got mentioned a few times (comments were really buried).
from reddit - used it daily for 15 years.
Found it after a random comment on reddit mentioned it. Been doing the same at least once a day, trying to slip under the radar and have gotten replies on it too, so at least I'm not shadowbanned (yet) it seems.
I definitely found out about Lemmy and Kbin through Reddit. I was familiar with Mastodon before all of this stuff started going on but Lemmy came onto my radar this month. I think someone in r/apolloapp asked Christian if he was going to port Apollo to be a Lemmy client was when it came into my radar, but it may have been shortly before that.
I happened upon one comment in r/TrackMania so it was totally coincidental. But I'm happy I found it. Otherwise I'd probably still be there or had searched for alternatives which might've lead to me ending up here anyway.
I actually knew about it for some years when investigating fediverse software.
I found out about it years ago (before the pandemic) at r/privacytoolsio or r/privacy or something.
I discovered it on reddit
r/rust a few years ago
I can't really recall when I first learned about it existing. But I was looking into options for messaging, and saw it mentioned alongside matrix in an article. I'm fairly sure it was lemmygrad that I tried out at the time, because everything there was politically oriented, and with a heavily socialist/communist slant. That was back a while though
But it was pretty empty, so I didn't go back until the reddit shit with Apollo happened. It was obvious to me that reddit was changing beyond what I was willing to put up with, so I looked into alternatives and discovered that lemmy was actually much netter developed than when I originally saw it. Kbin came along with that.
I'll chime in and add Reddit. Once I saw the direction things were going in, I went ahead and created accounts on tildes, lemmy, and kbin (which was the order I learned of them in). Right now, I think I'm most fond of kbin, but I wanted to keep my options open.
in a comment about the german r/ich_iel blackout, it was about feddit tho so more about the fediverse in general
On the blackout day of Reddit I hop here, I'm still here an will be for a long time.
I had heard about it on reddit and hacker news here and there, but I never made an account until I was downloading some modded/cracked apps off of mobilism and saw the 'Jerboa for Lemmy' listed on there.
Installed it, made an account, been morbin' ever since
I found out about on hacker news
I can't remember how exactly, but a couple of weeks ago, I was on the Snoosite when I read something about Lemmy's developers being communist. I looked it up, read some relevant posts about it, and thought it's a pretty good place to set-up an account for the (back then) impending blackout and its aftermath.
Reddit, like most comments here
I saw the drama thread re: the removal of the post about moving to kbin lol. Haven't been back since except to guide people to the verse.