Why did you join lemmy?

3 years ago by GoldenDoge to c/lemmy

stormio 1 point 3 years ago

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Treevan 2 points 3 years ago

Agreeing with this one.

Except I made a Mastodon account to pad its numbers to make Elon feel bad and used the Mastodon account to follow Lemmy (and just used the site sans account). Once the API changes were announced, all in to make reddit feel bad with larger numbers over here.

Phone is grapheneos, use Linux, all FOSS; why did I take so long to do this? Either this or quit all social media.

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Sabata11792 1 point 3 years ago

The memes are here, I trust the anime titties are on there way too.

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SturgiesYrFase 1 point 3 years ago

Booba you say?

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rei 1 point 3 years ago

Because Reddit plans to kill 3rd party clients. No sync no Reddit

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d3Xt3r 1 point 3 years ago

If ljdawson could port Sync to Lemmy, that'd be awesome. Lemme is nice, but the app is kinda meh right now.

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ambystoma 1 point 3 years ago

Or at least, it would be cool if they could open-source it if he doesn't plan on continuing development. That way, it could be used as a basis for a new Lemmy app.

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Sowatee 1 point 3 years ago

Reddit's been spiraling downhill for years. Been searching for an alternative that's not the cesspits of Twitter and 4chan. API is getting killed, government and corporations pushing agendas, armchair experts, subreddit bannings, poor UI/UX, echochambers, hardly any OC, and many many other issues that I'm sure others have already mentioned. I'm dumping the site as soon as old.reddit goes down.

There's nothing but outrage culture on social media. Just looking for a spot to chill really...

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duskfall 1 point 2 years ago

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FaceDeer 0 points 3 years ago

I've been chasing the old Usenet feel for decades. Reddit came close, but I can see the writing on the wall now. Lemmy's got the possibility to get closer.

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wicked82 0 points 3 years ago

Because Reddit has fully turned to the dark side lol. It’s been trending downhill for a while now but with the recent API shenanigans it became very clear it wasn’t going to improve. So here I am lol. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to find an alt (RIP Digg).

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marksson 0 points 3 years ago

Same, plus curiosity and enthusiasm for FOSS. Can't wait until fediverse is developed enough to host also niche communities like 'cassette_futurism' or 'liminal_space'.

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_ed 0 points 3 years ago

There is a https://lemmy.ml/c/liminalspace community.

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klemptor 0 points 3 years ago

Yesss! Now I need to look for poolrooms and vaporwave /synthwave / chillwave type comms.

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dessalines 1 point 3 years ago

Seems like those communities are unmoderated, including the !liminalspace@lemmy.ml one. lmk if you'd like to take any of them over.

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kinther 0 points 3 years ago

I wasn't too keen on Twitter and mostly spent time on reddit. When Mastodon came out I was intrigued, but the interface just wasn't something I was into. Lemmy seems way more up my alley.

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TerrorBite 0 points 3 years ago

As a bonus, you can still interact with people on Mastodon (like me!)

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BrokenToshy 1 point 3 years ago

So I'm completely new to the "fediverse" so does this mean now I've got a Lemmy account I can use that same account for Mastodon? I never really gave it a try as I wasn't a Twitter user

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TerrorBite 2 points 3 years ago

@BrokenToshy Yes and no. Your comment shows up to me like a toot and I'm replying to it with a toot, so in that sense, yes. I could even boost your comment to my followers like a toot. But the Lemmy software was designed around communities and groups, and it currently lacks the capacity to do certain one-on-one interaction the way a Mastodon user can. Since you can only use your account from your home instance, that does limit you a bit in how you can interact.

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_cnt0 0 points 3 years ago

I came for the drugs and hookers. So far, pretty disappointed.

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ArtVandelay 0 points 3 years ago

Because I like the general interface of (old.)reddit but not its userbase. Nor do I think social media should be a profit-driven, as the practices to keep us engaged is clearly having effects on society in every corner of the world.

I also miss the days of old, when communities were smaller and you could actually get to know people.

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X77 -1 points 3 years ago

Mostly because of Lemmy spam on reddit intensified 😅 technically it is good alternative, but it lacks content.

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