To escape reddit and to help people if I can.
spez is a piece of shit
Trying to understand someone I adore who prefers Lemmy. Also, Reddit feels overrun with fake accounts and scammers.
Just to get away from Reddit and help make the fediverse successful.
As a better alternative to what I was using prior (Reddit and other stuff). Came to Lemmy.ml as it seemed like a good generalist option whose top categories include open source programs and technology, to which I’ve enjoyed reading further into.
Additionally, I didn’t know Lemmygrad exists, however I’m super glad it does. I regularly browse it, and through doing so, I’ve corrected several misconceptions I had held prior, gotten even more insights into history, put together a reading list to finally delve deeper (which I need to keep reminding myself to start), and I’ve renewed efforts to try to find a way to organize.
Reddit’s bot detection bot banned me for being a bot. The irony was too much.
I guess that happened because you had your VPN on
Got sick of reddit morons, but increasingly they are moving over.
Reddit killed third party apps
It wasn’t just that. I used the first party app so the API changes didn’t affect me. It was how bad they handled the whole situation that made me lose faith that reddit was going in a good direction. That thread “addressing” the changes and concerns was brutal.
Yup. I still miss my rif app. It just felt like such a bad decision. Especially limiting NSFW. I needed to try something else.
Because reddit shut its api access off and “rif is fun for reddit” stopped working, duh.
reddit isn’t fun
Was thinking of trying something like Reddit. And I never imagined I would like a platform this much… And I’m also glad that I came to Lemmy instead of using Reddit
I just want to see less bots and find real community and conversations. I also love the concept of decentralized platforms. I feel like the Internet mostly isn’t even real. I miss what it was like 15+ years ago.
apicalypse, rip apollo
Never seen the term apicalypse and just had to say it’s fantastic.
That was my fediverse cohort too.
Same. I could only reddit through Boost.
Typing this from Boost for Lemmy :)
Because I missed the niche that reddit filled and I wasn’t willing to return to reddit or any other corporate, centralised social media/community platform.
Reddit killed third party apps and I refused to use their shit app. It all just stinks of enshitification. So I spun up my own instance of Lemmy and haven’t looked back.
You seem like a high initiative individual. Congrats. I lack technical sophistication to even buy a domain name lol. How much do you pay for lazysoci.al per year (the domain name)?
It’s about £10 a year. I’m lucky though as I run a small side business which has some hosting capabilities. So there is already an enterprise grade set of servers ready to deploy Lemmy. I don’t need to look for hosting costs or be worried about performance as the servers are paid for and are top spec.
What is your Lemmy instance?
