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Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy
(lemmy.ml)
Happy 2 years!!! Very glad you had a great time!
So you're from the first reddit exodus (third party apps ban) in 2023 like me.
Yep they killed Apollo and I took off running looking for greener pastures I think I went to the right place.
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/
Same. No Apollo no Reddit. Haven't been back except to delete my account a few weeks later.
I also left when Apollo went down! The grass is much greener here if you ask me.
Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too
Was that two years already? I thought that was last year. Tme flies when you're having fun, I guess.
Is there more than one exodus now? I haven't been keeping track.
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 was part of the 1st AI usage of banning. yup once you get a temp ban all your accounts will get ban automatically, regardless if its lifted or not for the original ban. and then i started hearing people were getting shadowban for no reason at all. i still visit the shadowban sub.
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.
reddit went downhill as soon as they went public and capitulated to MUSK and by extension right wingers, because spez is so in love with him.
alot of people originally were fighting politcal posts on thier subs from being posted, after the musk purges, they all allow it now, for the ones that dont strictly block politics.
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.
There have been several. Before lemmy there were others that failed.
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...
Happy lemon cake day!
Congrats! This is definitely a better place than reddit.
4 years over here for me, when lemmy.ml was pretty much the only option.
4 years wow, so you must really remember the more quiet times. Even just in the last 1 to 2 years it's got so much busier.
Yes, it was pretty quiet, but I feel the quality was always pretty good, even from the beginning.
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.
Yeah voat was pretty much nazi central
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?
Do you recall the year?
Yes! Voat… anyway. Grateful for lemmy.
2 years for me as well!
Happy cake day Dave
"I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer"
punches you in the face
Oh, yeah. Totally agree
punches you in the balls
Over on reddit, there are all kinds of fascists, and literal nazis.
uppercuts you
Over here, theres an instance full of tankies, but you can avoid them.
kicks you in the shins
The people here are TOTALLY nicer!
kick kick punch
What? I'm not attacking you to be violent. I just have a neurological disorder that causes my limbs to involuntarily thrash out.
punch
I'm TOTALLY being friendly right now!
kick punch it's all in the mind
One instance? There's at least two. But does that really matter? Reddit had r/TheDonald and r/conservative, and trying to get those people to fuck off and stop proselytizing elsewhere was like trying to play whack-a-mole against an anthill.
Here, you block the tankie instances and move on with your life.
This kind of self-critical comment no longer exists on Reddit, lol. Appreciate it.
Almost two years for me too. Wow, time flies.
Geez that was a quick two years
Happy 2 years!
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.
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.
hey me too! All the best!
Me too. Happy 2 years everyone!
Wow. Same here. Haven't logged on since then either. Although I do browse r/printsf in my laptop still... Fediverse is the shit
Same here. It's been a blast.
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.
Feel free to report such abuse on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
The irony of that suggestion is very amusing, because the moderator/admin of that community/instance is one of those people.
Then report them on !modabuse@lemmy.sdf.org
It's really not worth the effort. Nothing will change, and there will always be others.
I would say it's worth it. Communities have moved to other instances after admin power tripping reports. Users have moved to other communities after mods power trips reports.
Just like old web forums, how nostalgic
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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