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Reddit has been banning/deleting comments and subreddits dedicated to Lemmy or Kbinβunless someone notices, then they un-delete or un-ban
Interesting. Up until a few days ago, there was a subreddit devoted to Reddit alternatives. It's how I learned about kbin and other options.
Some of the posts were, let's say, suspiciously negative. Lemmy/kbin were supposedly impossible to sign up for unless you had at least 2 degrees in CS. (I managed, somehow) Oh, and lemmy is run by tankies. (Wouldn't care if it were). And it looks like hot garbage. (I like it well enough. It's easier on the eyes than new or old reddit imo)
It seemed like there were too many alternatives to make a rational choice, but ALSO "they all suck so don't bother." It sounded overwhelming, but I just said fuckit and picked one.
I wasn't expecting a fully formed set of communities and content or a perfectly polished interface. And I wasn't expecting the interface to be filled with tons of features or to have no learning curve. This is actually a lot nicer that what I expected, which was a very new/basic site that will need to do a lot of growing.
I wouldn't sign up on an instance ran by nazis, I wouldn't sign up on instance ran by tankies. I don't think I'm being unreasonable connecting those two.
Sounds like the Streisand Effect is working.
Can't remember. Probably 2 weeks ago on a random reddit thread.
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 :)
Hacker news was my fix last Monday and it always delivers!
If I remember correctly, I found Lemmy while looking into how to 'de-google' my phone
I actually knew about it for some years when investigating fediverse software.
I think I was looking for open source software and there was a section for social media
I found it on the reddit mod Discord server in the list of alternatives.
I happened upon one comment in r/TrackMania so it was totally coincidental. But I'm happy I found it. Otherwise I'd probably still be there or had searched for alternatives which might've lead to me ending up here anyway.
I caught the post about reddit censoring mentions of lemmy that made it to the front page. Streisand effect.
From a comment on Reddit.
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.
Saw kbin mentioned in a verge article comment section during the reddit coverage.
Came across a reference to it on Reddit. I didn't do anything at the time, but when I came across two or three more references to it just before the blackout I thought I'd give it a try.
I found out about it during the recent Reddit shitstorm.
r/rust a few years ago
I'll chime in and add Reddit. Once I saw the direction things were going in, I went ahead and created accounts on tildes, lemmy, and kbin (which was the order I learned of them in). Right now, I think I'm most fond of kbin, but I wanted to keep my options open.
in a comment about the german r/ich_iel blackout, it was about feddit tho so more about the fediverse in general
Found it after a random comment on reddit mentioned it. Been doing the same at least once a day, trying to slip under the radar and have gotten replies on it too, so at least I'm not shadowbanned (yet) it seems.
I definitely found out about Lemmy and Kbin through Reddit. I was familiar with Mastodon before all of this stuff started going on but Lemmy came onto my radar this month. I think someone in r/apolloapp asked Christian if he was going to port Apollo to be a Lemmy client was when it came into my radar, but it may have been shortly before that.
I had heard about it on reddit and hacker news here and there, but I never made an account until I was downloading some modded/cracked apps off of mobilism and saw the 'Jerboa for Lemmy' listed on there.
Installed it, made an account, been morbin' ever since
I found out about on hacker news
On Mastodon!
Found out about Lemmy a while ago the through an app that existed for it (Lemmur) due to weird search of Fdroid, when the shit hit the fan I just followed the crowd.
I still don't understand if I'm on Kbin or Lemmy. I have a Kbin login so this is Kbin right? But I can view subs/magazines/federations on lemmy? But not all of the content? And I can comment/interact with those Lemmyubs/magazines/federations if i'm on Kbin, but not with the same account if I go to Lemmy? WTF is going on.
you're on kbin, you can tell because your username ends in @kbin.social, which is a kbin instance. Instance is just another name for a server. Due to federation you can view and comment on threads from any other federated instance. You can also join maganzines (called communities on Lemmy, groups on mastadon, and subreddits on reddit) from any other federated instance as well. The only thing I don't think you can do is become a moderator on another instance. Note, the content is being brought to your kbin feed because we are federated, if you go to to the original instance you've left the website and thus won't be logged in.
Same. I think I only have the kbin and am not sure if I have the lemmy. I keep seeing posts like this talking about it so I must be. Fuck am I old?
Nah, this shit is confusing initially. Think of it like email. You're using gmail, but you can still see and participate in email threads sent by Outlook users. It's just that instead of emails, it's a threaded forum somewhat in the style of reddit.
The way it should work is everything can interact with everything unless its defederated.
I discovered it on reddit
Found it about a year ago after looking for social media alternatives that respect privacy and are open-source. Mainly lurked for a while, but then decided to try and get some communities active here. about two or three weeks back.
Just happened to be a coincidence everything going on with Reddit started occurring shortly after.
From discussion on the unixporn subreddit about moving the sub
I went to see MotΓΆrhead 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.
Reddit, like most comments here
Using my kbin.social user, although I have a lemmy account too (sopuli.xyz).
I find out about Lemmy after I joined Mastodon last year, on April. I don't remember if I was told about Lemmy by another user, or it was me who was digging on other fediverse projects. I liked the idea of a federated Reddit-like, but I didn't get very engaged because it had few users, and I was still learning about federation and instances. Now it's different and more awesome.
Just recently, thanks to the awful meltdown going on over at Reddit.
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.