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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I like having ownership of my internet experience so I run a lemmy instance and my friend administrates it. It is more fun than using a botted network.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

i dont have anywhere else to go

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 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€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Just want to support Fediverse ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Fortune and glory.

[โ€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Because I love sync

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Cause need to take the web back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit banned me. They hate anti capitalists and anti fascists

[โ€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit banned r/chapotraphouse for saying "slaveowners should be killed"

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I ain't gots nowhere else to go.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

For the snacks

[โ€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I just enjoy it here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

API changes killing Apollo.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Corporate greed puts me off.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy tell you how...

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I was in F-droid searching for stuffs, then I found lemmy, since my phone can't install reddit cause I have storage problems, I tried out lemmy. And now I believe this is better than any community apps.

[โ€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

sync for Android

[โ€“] [email protected] 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€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Initially because reddit permabanned me. Then I got comfy here

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm here because Reddit got shitty. And I really wanted a decentralized platform, where one person couldn't screw things up for everybody else. It's a lot harder to "take over" a social media platform when it's spread out over 600 Instances in many different countries.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

In the past, I always felt good about never being on Twitter, considering how much people complained about it on Mastodon.

And then I realized I instead visited Reddit daily. To maintain my perceived superiority, I had to quit that and ended up here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

To give me something to do on my phone during work hours since there's no way I'm touching the official reddit client

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 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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