I found out about it because of a hacker news comment discussing the Reddit drama. I’m pretty upset that I didn’t discover it on Reddit. I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?
Reddit has been banning/deleting comments and subreddits dedicated to Lemmy or Kbin—unless someone notices, then they un-delete or un-ban
Interesting. Up until a few days ago, there was a subreddit devoted to Reddit alternatives. It’s how I learned about kbin and other options.
Some of the posts were, let’s say, suspiciously negative. Lemmy/kbin were supposedly impossible to sign up for unless you had at least 2 degrees in CS. (I managed, somehow) Oh, and lemmy is run by tankies. (Wouldn’t care if it were). And it looks like hot garbage. (I like it well enough. It’s easier on the eyes than new or old reddit imo)
It seemed like there were too many alternatives to make a rational choice, but ALSO “they all suck so don’t bother.” It sounded overwhelming, but I just said fuckit and picked one.
I wasn’t expecting a fully formed set of communities and content or a perfectly polished interface. And I wasn’t expecting the interface to be filled with tons of features or to have no learning curve. This is actually a lot nicer that what I expected, which was a very new/basic site that will need to do a lot of growing.
I wouldn’t sign up on an instance ran by nazis, I wouldn’t sign up on instance ran by tankies. I don’t think I’m being unreasonable connecting those two.
Sounds like the Streisand Effect is working.
If I remember correctly, I found Lemmy while looking into how to ‘de-google’ my phone
I happened upon one comment in r/TrackMania so it was totally coincidental. But I’m happy I found it. Otherwise I’d probably still be there or had searched for alternatives which might’ve lead to me ending up here anyway.
I found out about it during the recent Reddit shitstorm.
After I saw the AMA with spez, I didn’t have any hope for reddit being useable anymore. So I googled for something else to do my doom scrolling. I ran across a 4 year old YouTube video explaining the fediverse. Then I googled fediverse reddit alternative, and here I am. I wish I would have found out about all of this a long time ago.
I saw the drama thread re: the removal of the post about moving to kbin lol. Haven’t been back since except to guide people to the verse.
I actually knew about it for some years when investigating fediverse software. But I never made the plunge until now.
In a Facebook chat group, set up by Hungarian leftist tech guys.
I found it on the reddit mod Discord server in the list of alternatives.
Found it after a random comment on reddit mentioned it. Been doing the same at least once a day, trying to slip under the radar and have gotten replies on it too, so at least I’m not shadowbanned (yet) it seems.
I discovered it on reddit
in a comment about the german r/ich_iel blackout, it was about feddit tho so more about the fediverse in general
Feddit.de is a Lemmy instance.
The comments that I made on Reddit that mentioned kbin mysteriously disappeared.
On Mastodon!
From comment on Reddit