Just chillin, reddit is becoming toxic for me

I joined around the time /r/chapotraphouse got banned. I didn't and don't listen to the podcast, but I enjoyed participating in an online community with a leftist slant and the cultural values that come with that. And a community that was more about memes and joking than just dry politics all the time. It was cathartic, and I thought the banning justification was total bull shit.

When I learned about the Fediverse and these open source, decentralized services, they struck me as projects that more aligned with my personal values compared to Twitter and Reddit. So I joined up hoping they'd eventually grow to replace those.

I actually have probably been using the Hexbear instance more than the federated instances though I cooled down on that instance over time. Still go every now and then though, but Reddit still has some subreddits that didn't have an analog there or here. Hoping that's going to begin to change.

I had been souring on Reddit for years as I watched the default subs get worse and worse over time and saw cracks in the general community that I either was ignoring when I was younger or better recognized as I got older. I no longer identified with the "average Redditor"

I joined a few months ago, when all of Reddit went down for hours... then only the new site went up at first before old and the API were restored.

It was like a glimpse into the near future. Thus I started my transition into Lemmy and Jerboa, from Reddit and QuantumBadger's RedReader app.

Got fed up with anti-consumer behavior of companies. Projects like Lemmy are really the only long term reliable alternative to the communication style reddit showed me

I like platforms that are owned by the users.

it has a large leftist community and hasn't been overrun with FBI and CIA just yet

Because I like the content and model on Reddit, and want to support a federated and open source Reddit alternative. Would be nice if Lemmy would grow.

Escaping Reddit's bullsh*t. I exclusively use Reddit using Infinity, Apollo and old.reddit.com. They are now killing the API (and 3rd party clients for that matter) and I don't think that old.reddit.com will live much longer tbh and I cannot be bothered to use the new Reddit. It takes ages to load and is WAY to bloated. Add the NFT Profile pictures and RPAN into the mix and you have a dead website in my eyes.

Reddit moving against my preferred clients. I'm not abandoning the site completely until both third-party and old.reddit is gone, but thought I might as well have a foot out the door. Lemmy just seemed like the most closely related option.

same reason I joined Reddit when Digg was starting to behave like a Digg.

Because I was getting fed up wading though endless garbage on the sewage-plant also know as Reddit

I've had my eye on it for a while. Now that Reddit is getting super corporate anticipating their IPO, now may be its moment.

I love Apollo and don’t agree with the BS that Reddit is doing. The Musk era of Twitter pushed me to try Mastodon and I’ve loved exploring the Fediverse since then.

/u/awkwardtheturtle

I've been curious about the fediverse since I first learned about it, which was probably about when Trump's social media company cloned Mastodon instead of creating their own site from scratch. I did some reading and glanced at some different fediverse sites, but couldn't entirely wrap my mind around how the fediverse worked and honestly I was overwhelmed by the server choice aspect, especially since so many Mastodon servers in particular seem focused on specific topics and there wasn't any one specific topic I wanted to interact with more than the others.

Once Elon took over Twitter, I decided to finally sign up for a general Mastodon server out of a voyeuristic desire to see what the people fleeing had to say about their experiences. Joining in the middle of the Twitter exodus meant tons of fediverse tips and explanation posts were being shared and I finally got a better grasp of how the fediverse as a whole worked. I commented on PeerTube from Mastodon, I tried PixelFed and learned the global feed was pretty much all Mastodon posts and wished there was a global PixelFed-only option between local server and entire fediverse, and I finally settled on Calckey because it's way more playful with emojis and text animations but still allowed me to follow all the fascinating scientists that had hopped on the Mastodon train and Calckey formatted their Mastodon posts well.

I had checked out Lemmy, too, when reading up on the fediverse because I use Reddit far more than any other social media site. I initially passed on Lemmy because of server choice paralysis again and also because it didn't look very active. Now that Reddit is making their API unaffordable for third party apps, it seemed like a good time to give Lemmy a chance. The official Reddit app and site are insufferable and I'd rather start over in a smaller community without the ads (I loathe ads) than deal with an app that's too cluttered with irrelevant features like NFTs or use a website that constantly begs me to switch over to that terrible app instead.

I hope this does well. I have been using the internet since the 90s and it has been a crazy evolution. I'd love if we move out from the walled gardens that took over. Maybe I'll just be on the fringes while the masses stay with the corporations, but at least there are good people in these fringes.

I learned of it awhile back through an arrrr acquaintance. I would lurk a little here and there. Didn't make a profile until I saw my RIF was going to die... Without RIF there is no reddit.

I haven't signed up for a Lemmy account yet nor settled on an instance to join, but I'm here through the magic of federation!

When I do probably join, it'll be because of the Reddit API going away. I use Reddit almost exclusively from my phone, and there's no way I'm using their official app with all those ads. Mobile web just results in constant nagging to use their app – plus they recently ran an experiment where they logged out some mobile web users to try and force them into their app.

Was looking for an alternative to Reddit, found Lemmy and really like the concept.

I miss dial-up BBSes and federated message echoes like FidoNet. This kind of stuff feels a bit like the good ol' days! (I'm old)

When I joined mastodon during the Twitter Diaspora I learnt more about alternativee, (actually) decentralized social Networks and mostly the Fediverse. I wanted to try something different and know more. Thanks of this I've actually realized how fucked up the enveroinment in other commercial social media platforms. I love that the Fediverse is decentralized and maintained by people like me so that companies and the American govt don't spy on me

At least here people are actually willing to have a conversation without ending up insulting you just because you have a different opinion and you're not a white bourgeois girl

Freedom

@GoldenDoge Because it is a topic-oriented access to the Fediverse.
I don't have any experience with #Reddit or similar, but rather like that it's a kind of forum where the content is a bit more sorted than in the micro-/macroblogging software. Nevertheless, everyone with accounts from #Misskey, #Mastodon, #Friendica, #Hubzilla etc. can also comment and create posts in #Lemmy communities. So the circle of users is much larger than just Lemmy alone.