Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy

a year ago by Pacrat173 to c/fediverse

For me Lemmy was my gateway to the rest of the Fediverse. I can say I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer the engagement feels more real and over all it’s a better vibe. Here’s to 2 more everyone!

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aprehendedmerlin 88 points a year ago

So you're from the first reddit exodus (third party apps ban) in 2023 like me.

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Pacrat173 49 points a year ago

Yep they killed Apollo and I took off running looking for greener pastures I think I went to the right place.

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lundi 17 points a year ago

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/

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CarbonatedPastaSauce 8 points a year ago

Same. No Apollo no Reddit. Haven't been back except to delete my account a few weeks later.

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Taiatari 6 points a year ago

I'm in the same boat here, not regretting it at all that I moved on.

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Harvey656 6 points a year ago

I also left when Apollo went down! The grass is much greener here if you ask me.

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TORFdot0 2 points a year ago

Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too

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neidu3 14 points a year ago

Was that two years already? I thought that was last year. Tme flies when you're having fun, I guess.

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Psythik 10 points a year ago

That's why I'm here! :D

The developer of my favorite reddit app (dBrady, Relay for Reddit) decided to play along with Spez's game and start charging for usage.

So I fucked off, and after testing every Lemmy app I could find, I settled on Voyager. It's not optimized for foldables like Relay—and it's swipe gestures aren't as intuitive—but it's close and still better than paying to use reddit.

Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez

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Gork 6 points a year ago

Is there more than one exodus now? I haven't been keeping track.

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lundi 16 points a year ago

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)

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can 9 points a year ago

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.

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aceshigh 3 points a year ago

There have been several. Before lemmy there were others that failed.

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BigBenis 5 points a year ago

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...

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TachyonTele 4 points a year ago

Amen

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