this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty 74 points 1 year ago

Since June 2023, like 90% of the users on here.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] puppy 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Holy shit. How did you get to know about Lemmy and why did you join?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Not OP but reddit and the piracy subreddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At the time I knew what the fediverse was and I was using Mastodon quite consistently, and I was waiting for a federated alternative to reddit. Raddle at the time was already a thing, but federation was not on their roadmap.

As per how I found it... here's a comment from four years ago :)

[–] ConstipatedWatson 2 points 1 year ago

The hero we need, but not the one we deserve

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you one of the Elders of the Internet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

just lemmy eheh unfortunately I haven't had the chance to witness the birth of the internet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

huh I'm close

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just since The Incident at the Other Place.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Before the dark times. Before the Empire.

[–] thorbot 7 points 1 year ago

In the before times, in the long long ago

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Since June 13, 2023.

2023 / 13 * 6 produces a cool repeating pattern of 692307:

933.692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307692307

[–] conno02 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

July 17th, 2023-- you already know why

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because spez enjoys having sex with a lasagna loving cat?

[–] conno02 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

what the FUCKKK

i mean. yes. precisely that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I created my account last year but only started using it properly during the APIcalypse

[–] ConstipatedWatson 7 points 1 year ago

June 22nd, 2023.

I was simultaneously desperately hoping RIF for Reddit wouldn't die...

Now however, I'm still sad about RIF, but very happy about being here on Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

16 June 2023 - my account appears newer than that because I switched instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

June 16th, 2023

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

3 days now. I miss the abuse of reddit. Jk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

June 1st, 2023 = 102 days

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Longer than I thought. When I tried to register I was annoyed that the username was taken, but it turned out they also dropped the info in my password manager back in 2021!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Since January 2021. I left Lemmy for about a year, then came back during the Reddit blackout.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My very first account was in Feb of 2022, but i kinda abandoned it until the 3rd party apps blackout on June 12. Then i came back and really started to kick the tires.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

since the beginning of time! Like 2 months ago, it was a Tuesday I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

June 7th, 2023

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

See my cake day.

[–] DRx 2 points 1 year ago

Since the day before the Reddit strike… so mid June?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

2-3 months I think? I could check, but that's just too much effort.

Like it a lot so far though!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

December of 2022. I was moving away from closed-source social media, and after Twitter -> Mastodon, Reddit was next. I didn't become active til the whole API thing tho, because Lemmy didn't have some communities that I liked. So I made one lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I signed up to see what it was about during the Redditmageddon. I'm still on both sites and always will be though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

an hour.

hi

(to be fair i did check things out here every once in a while since the api debacle but i didn't sign up until now)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

27th August 2023

I knew about Lemmy for nearly 2 years prior to The Blackout and slowly gained some traction after the birth of the instance I created my account in (which started as a subreddit but for reasons around one year ago their exodus began)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Two years, apparently. I posted like two comments and came back after the Reddit API crisis to never look back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just a few months ago.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

4 years, everything was great until the redditors brought their bullshit.