I found out about it because of a hacker news comment discussing the Reddit drama. I’m pretty upset that I didn’t discover it on Reddit. I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?

  • Frater Mus
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    21 year ago

    I went to see Motörhead at Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg around 1986 and there he was, center stage.

    Oh. I learned about lemmy a while back after searching something like “fediverse like reddit”. I didn’t join until this year. I didn’t know about the API wars until afterward.

    I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?

    The RedditAlternatives sub is about 10 years old. Fediverse sub 5 years. The Lemmy sub is newish, only 1 year.

  • iAmTheTot
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    11 year ago

    Saw kbin mentioned in a verge article comment section during the reddit coverage.

  • Br0da
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    11 year ago

    Came here after leaving Reddit and looking for alternatives. Happy to be here and I’m never going back.

  • @ppp@lemmy.one
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    11 year ago

    I found out about it years ago (before the pandemic) at r/privacytoolsio or r/privacy or something.

  • @bdvenom@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 year ago

    After I saw the AMA with spez, I didn’t have any hope for reddit being useable anymore. So I googled for something else to do my doom scrolling. I ran across a 4 year old YouTube video explaining the fediverse. Then I googled fediverse reddit alternative, and here I am. I wish I would have found out about all of this a long time ago.

  • @4ffy@lemmy.ml
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    01 year ago

    Old account here. I was directed to Hexbear after r/cth was banned from Reddit. Later on, I learned about other instances. Federation wasn’t a thing back then; I made an account here to check federation out once it finally released.

  • Rozinante
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    01 year ago

    I saw it on hacker news and wanted to check it out as I intended to delete my Reddit account but wanted a new home where I could get my info fix. I came, I saw, I deleted my Reddit account and here I am :)