I found out about Lemmy through browsing the /r/linux wiki.
I usually move on as my ADHD body doesn’t feel like setting up an account on a new social media (due to executive dysfunction); but I randomly decided to sign up.
Signing up for a new platform wasn’t as bad as I thought it would. I may just need to get used to making new accounts on foreign platforms.
Using Lemmy wasn’t as bad as I thought. It’s somewhat stable and it doesn’t seem all that bad to use an unpopular social media; the lack of an echo chamber (as a result of federation) is annoying for me to deal with, because I’m not used to it; but it’s good for getting more perspectives.
I like the Active sort; it promotes discussion better than new.
Federation is a nice aspect.
Lack of hypocrisy.
Full markdown is supported!
SVG can be posted through <svg>. It’s impossible to post SVG on Reddit.
I discovered Lemmy from Matrix and joined soon after despite getting multiple JavaScript errors while signing up.
Once it’s more stable, it’ll be perfect.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
My boyfriend, he runs two instances.
I discovered Lemmy from Matrix and joined soon after despite getting multiple JavaScript errors while signing up.
Once it’s more stable, it’ll be perfect.
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 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
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!
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)
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.
From r/rust probably.
I found it on Reddit. I have been neglecting my Reddit account since joining Lemmy.
Through a post about Lemmy on Reddit.
Mastodon. Privacytools.io instance when it still existed.
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
removed by mod
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
reddit, and also a friend of mine who makes leftist videos.
Privacyguides.org
I come because someone on
redditsay about FOSS and tell what its lemmy