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I looked up something like "open source reddit" and came across lemmy and decided to join and stayed. Now I run midwest.social and buckeyestate.social.
Can't remember the exact way I found out about Lemmy. I must have been browsing Reddit or Mastodon and suddenly there was lots of talk about Lemmy.
same here. i think it was either reddit or hacker news where i read about it. i think i first created an account on lemmy.ml, then lemmy.ca, and now i'm running lemmy.ca!
The commies gave it to me
I think I read about it on Mastodon.
reddit, and also a friend of mine who makes leftist videos.
I've been playing around with the Rust programming language on the side for a while. I started an account when I heard Lemmy was being written in Rust.
I honestly don't remember. I think I was actively looking for a federated reddit-like site, because I really liked the concept of a federated platform as an alternative to the monopolistic social media giants, and I stumbled upon a link to lemmy somewhere. The project seemed great and I stayed.
Privacyguides.org
I don't remember exactly. But i like to search for "alternatives to x" in my search for free software because it leads to that website "alternativeto.net" which has a filter for "opensource" which usually means free software for them, so my guess is one day i decided to search for alternatives to reddit that way and i was so excited about it that i made a lemmy account soon after, but it took me a while to actually start using it. It was when i found out about the android client "lemmur" that got me to using it with some frequency. Eventually lemmur stopped working on my phone and i stopped using lemmy, until i saw that jerboa was released and here i am now. I think lemmy has gotten more useable since then as i learned about some people migrating from reddit and now I'm trying to post at least one meme everyday to help keep content flowing.
I don’t remember exactly. But i like to search for “alternatives to x” in my search for free software because it leads to that website “alternativeto.net” which has a filter for “opensource” which usually means free software for them, so my guess is one day i decided to search for alternatives to reddit that way and i was so excited about it that i made a lemmy account soon after
This was pretty much my experience, though I also don't recall it exactly.
I remember making my account, checking a couple of things and then forgetting about it for some months, then I searched for alternatives again (I do this from time to time to see how the "ecosystem" is evolving) and it rekindled my activity. Soon enough I started contributing to the project with translations, suggestions and even a bit of code :)
I found it on Reddit. I have been neglecting my Reddit account since joining Lemmy.
I started looking into Lemmy after I installed LibreWolf and it was listed as one of their socials. I already use Mastodon and Reddit is one of the few proprietary social media sites I'm still on. Lemmy seemed like a no-brainer.
lemmy really is a no-brainer, I wonder why it's going so slowly
Mastodon. Privacytools.io instance when it still existed.
Through a post about Lemmy on Reddit.
I searched for reddit/teddit types of apps on F-Droid, Lemy came up many times with different assistant apps as well. Upon installing it and seeing what was posted I became interested without having known what it was in the first place.
I honestly think I found it on Hacker News and joined out of curiosity. Stayed out of spite when people on the post had their hot takes on the politics.
I downloaded Lemmy out of curiosity when it was featured on F-Droid
I come because someone on ~~reddit~~ say about FOSS and tell what its lemmy
I found it from the Privacy Guides "social news aggregators" page. It describes Lemmy as a fediverse-compliant Reddit alternative, which sounded really appealing to me. I joined pretty quickly after that.
Edit: looks like they removed it a couple of days after I posted this lol. I guess that makes sense, given PrivacyGuides is meant explicitly for tools that are designed for privacy, supporting encryption and such. Any social media doesn't really fit that. You can see the discussion that lead to its removal here.
I was following Dessalines' work when I saw he was working in this project; it's nice. I'm sad hexbear forked so hard federation isn't possible but this is much more sustainable imo. Hope they're able to get their code base in line and merge!
Tbh, I think hexbear trying to maintain a forked codebase in perpetuity sounds like a recipe for failure given how few of their users volunteer. They should have just added a vanilla lemmy subdomain and encouraged people to migrate. Their posting power deserves to be on the fedi and not locked up on its own site.
They will use vainilla Lemmy soon!
Here's to hoping, I hope they find a way to integrate the emojis though
This is the announcement: https://www.hexbear.net/post/159221
And yes, Lemmy's developers want to integrate emojis too (check this tag for more info)
i saw it on the rust subreddit back when it first started out. i didn't really understand what federation was so to me it was just "Reddit rewritten in Rust" and that sounded cool but i didn't really get the point or how that would affect the users. commenters seemed to agree so i moved on. then i started caring a lot more about my online privacy in the past year, discovered matrix, then the fediverse, then lemmy while looking for more fediverse alternatives for mainstream social media. i never really got into social media other than reddit, so it was awesome to find a part of the fediverse that offered a similar experience
My boyfriend, he runs two instances.