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[โ€“] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Fortune and glory.

[โ€“] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Once RiF announced it would shut down due to the API changes I made my account here. I only used Reddit on mobile so just staying on old.reddit wasn't an option. Tried a few different apps for Lemmy and landed on Sync since I can set it up as close to RiF as I could, but with improvements like sliding to up vote.

It's a much better place here, and I actually comment more here than I ever did on Reddit due to the toxicity and just getting buried by bot accounts. My account was 12 years old when I left, now I've been here over a year and don't plan on leaving any time soon. You're stuck with me now

[โ€“] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 weeks ago

Big, centrally owned platforms aren't a good idea.

Reddit did some API nonsense, and that was when I left there. I was already off twitter, and never used facebook stuff.

I need somewhere for my meme and internet highlights supply, and lemmy has been ok so far.

[โ€“] fool@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Non-ideologically: the culture is measurably better. Here's why.

  • The Lemmy Algorithm. This is a big flaw with Reddit -- people have the attention span for the first ten comments, and then subcomment upvotes halve (with decent std. dev -- we aren't Zipf's Law devotees there) until invisibility. I don't think my Reddit comments are even seen, let alone replied to. But here, new comments have a chance.
  • The sense of "mineness". A lot of people see this place as "their own", so there's responsibility to raise your communities right, and another to interact (hence, variably lower hostility). I don't post much but I respond a lot to the people who comment in them, because I feel that it'd be nice to contribute to do my part and keep this place up.
  • At risk of sounding self-absorbed/elitist, the entry level helps culture too. People are here because they were dissatisfied with the state of other sites, then made a jump; this is a sieve that to an extent increases the standard of sorting by new. (This has limitations of course -- we still have extremists for example -- and it isn't necessarily advocating for Lemmy to never be mainstream.)

e.g. that Draw a Duck post a while back is probably far beyond a lot of platforms' capabilities/proclivities.

(I admit: this is a paraphrased comment I made a few months ago)

[โ€“] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Better engagement than Reddit at this point I'm starting to believe it's all bots for real.

[โ€“] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit got redundant. I like arbitrary All and Popular feeds and boy did those suck after the nth made up feel good repost.

As for staying, I'm more inclined to comment here. I'm shy even by online standards but Lemmy feels like it needs more commenters.

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

i came here like most lemmy did; because reddit; and i hope to be here for a long time since all substantially financed social media platforms enshitify eventually like reddit or facebook did or enshitify immediately like bluesky did when they banned gazans.

[โ€“] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

It started with a distaste for how Reddit was treating developers and moderators, but now I genuinely believe in the future of the fediverse.

[โ€“] Lumidaub 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because spez was being a dip shit. Other than that, yeah, idklol

[โ€“] dims@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Just want to support Fediverse ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

As in, why here and not reddit? I drifted away from posting on reddit about 5 - 8 years ago. I was icky over their ads and tracking and it was just a time sink I didn't need back then, but I would still use alternate frontends (the current equivalent would be libreddit) to lurk while on the train trip to work and back.

I forget whether I found lemmy from /r/piracy exploring bunker options (raddle and lemmy) or if it was through FOSS, but I liked its potential and have been here posting here since 2022.

[โ€“] Volkditty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I ain't gots nowhere else to go.

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[โ€“] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because I love sync

[โ€“] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit banned me. They hate anti capitalists and anti fascists

[โ€“] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Cause need to take the web back.

[โ€“] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

For the snacks

[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Came because I liked open source software and hate corporations. Stayed because communism

[โ€“] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

i dont have anywhere else to go

[โ€“] Nerrad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I just enjoy it here.

API changes killing Apollo.

[โ€“] tourist@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I was meant to be doing something but I got distracted

I have no idea what I was meant to be doing because I smoked the mystery joint

I think most of it was probably blue cheese

[โ€“] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly don't remember why I signed up. I like it though. Kind of similar vibe to when I used Reddit except much better. It's got some nice small-ish (but not too small) communities for FOSS stuff.

[โ€“] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago
[โ€“] Thteven@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Corporate greed puts me off.

[โ€“] nutsack@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

sync for Android

[โ€“] Alphamars@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I was IP banned on reddit. Anybody on reddit that uses my ip address gets an automatic ban forever. I don't know exactly what I said or do. I tried appealing no response till date. Got tired of trying different vpn just for reddit and had to move.

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[โ€“] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I tried Reddit but I had enough with all the rules and corporate cleanliness of it. I used this site called 'Saidit' for a bit but but no one ever posted there so I looked into Reddit alternatives and stumbled across Lemmy. The rest is history

[โ€“] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

I can't be on Reddit, but I like the branching comment format and thematic post grouping ideas I learned there.

[โ€“] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Initially because reddit permabanned me. Then I got comfy here

Where Boost goes, I go.

[โ€“] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Grew up on enthusiast BBS, Lemmy is like a bunch of them are linked up.

Dislike for profit internet as it must inevitably lead to enshitification, just never had a term for that in the past :)

I don't have an issue with "toxicity" as i just ignore it, like a dog shit on the side walk. I prefer the "BBS/Usenet format" to Twitter like Mastodon though I am over on Masto and had been there for many years. I don't participate much though.

[โ€“] sag@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For an actual community. I was tired of Discord and Reddit.

Lemmy tell you how...

[โ€“] phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit killed third party apps and their mobile site barely functions, so I wasnโ€™t able to use reddit on mobile without installing spyware/adware.
Lemmy was the best alternative.

[โ€“] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I found it in the reddit kerfuffle and stayed because it reminded me of a combination of Usenet text forums and early Reddit. The pace here is manageable and it's mostly nice.

So I am here for whatever I was on Usenet then Reddit for, just to have a space to read people's opinions and maintain a niche community.

[โ€“] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't think all social media should be based in one country because that creates a risk of political censorship.

[โ€“] SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit's app is a pile of shit and I did not want to be forced to use it. I have donated to Boost a couple of times.

[โ€“] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reddit went ban happy and nuked my 13 year old account over attempting to appeal a mod power tripping over an innocent comment they didn't like.

Which was after the api think killed RiF

[โ€“] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I want to talk to people online but reddit is too yucky. Lemmy has a better community than reddit and it's not for proffit open source decentralized and all the other things that I love.

[โ€“] Aux@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

To monetise it and extract wealth from lemmings.

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