I like the ability to actually see everything from an API standpoint. Reddit is also overwhelmingly negative, and im looking for a place to discuss with people willing to actually do something other than complain.
Found out about it from Reddit, and it seemed better in several ways, so I tried it out.
More friendly, for one.
I’m a bit less extreme about it than many here. But, in short, back when Reddit made sweeping API changes it immediately gave me ‘the ick’ and so I sought less centralised platforms. Lemmy is the closest thing I’ve found to people just hosting their own message boards like back in the early internet.
I’m a big fan of decentralized platforms and I love the concept of ActivityPub.
That said, I still use Reddit and have recently started to really enjoy BlueSky, so I’m not militantly against the corporate platforms or anything.
Finally, I just like the natural selection things like Lemmy and Mastodon have for those who are naturally more techy and nerdy.
To spread the word about the ultimate beverage: WATER
Haha makes me think about the old HydroHomies subreddit and what it was originally called
Water N-[Redacted]
but it’s so dangerous; everyone who drinks it dies. lol
you must only consume piss
No one whoever drank piss died because of it
dont fall for Big Phallus propaganda
This is just one of Big Soda’s lies. Everyone who had drank water and died, had also breathed air. Oxygen is also toxic, so I think, that conclusion is obvious.
Big water lobby in this thread rn. /s
so… what is it? is it really safe to try?
Because Reddit is a shit hole from which no intelligent life will ever escape.
But we escaped…
I’m afraid it means, that you are stupid.
all of us
Saw the whole fiasco of Reddit unraveling and then went to Lemmy. Seriously fuck Spez and how he treated the developer of Apollo.
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.
Mostly because it’s fun to use sarcasm and hyperbole without attaching an obligatory /s in a den full of Linux users
without attaching an obligatory /s
I kind of need it though :( (even in real life)
The /s is useful for people who have stuff like autism or just suck at realising something is a joke (me)
Left Reddit because of the API stuff. Still on Lemmy because it’s not as addictive and has a much higher concentration of leftists.
Same.
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.
For an actual community. I was tired of Discord and Reddit.
I was here before the Reddit API kerfuffle, because I care about an open and decentralized internet.
Found the hipster
Same! I was hoping for a while that there would be a fediverse version of reddit. And it’s succeeded beyond my wildest hopes. Other than the misinformation, but I suppose that’s a problem everywhere.
i dont have anywhere else to go
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.
It started with a distaste for how Reddit was treating developers and moderators, but now I genuinely believe in the future of the fediverse.
