Basically what I mean is, did you also come here from reddit?
I came here after I got my Reddit account banned permanently. And the thing is, I don’t exactly know why I got banned. Nor what I did wrong. I always tried to follow the rules, post and comment appropriately and nicely, but on New Year’s Day last week, I got a message simply saying "Your account have been permanently banned for violating the rules.
But when I replied asking what rule or rules I unknowingly broke, they just messaged me back saying “you got banned because you violated the community guidelines”. So now I’m here.
What about you? Are you also a Reddit Refugee?
I voluntarily quit Reddit when the API fuckery happened. Deleted all of my posts, comments, etc. after 16 years, and millions of useless points. I don’t and never will give a fuck. Also a refugee from Digg before that, Fark, /. etc. I’m pretty happy with the fediverse so far, and will likely stand up my own server(s) in the next year or so.
… Every single person on Lemmy is a Reddit refugee. You’re not going to find a single person here who has not used Reddit before.
Since the API exodus, yes.
I made a very conscious choice to leave reddit at that time, due to that particular bullshit, and I don’t regret it.
Doesn’t mean I don’t miss reddit though, because I do. Reddit has a lot more traffic which obviously means a lot more content in the sort of niche communities I really love.
But I made the right choice. I don’t want to be part of that any longer. And the more of us make this choice, the better things will be for us all.
I left during the api bullshit, fuck spez
I think the majority of Lemmy users are Reddit refugees, not because they got banned, but because of the Reddit API changes that forced 99% of the third party apps to shut down.
The API change wasn’t it, it’s when it became clear to me they were selling all my data to Google. I frequented mental health subs, and I started getting Google ads for scams TARGETING people with mental health issues. Just sick.
the recent surges of refugees are from the multi-wave purges last year.
What is API?
Like ELI5 please
+1 RIP Apollo
I still consume on Reddit, but won’t post or contribute there anymore.
Yeah, so much good information is there it’s unavoidable to just browse on in, from time to time.
It feels like Even if someone did ask on Lemmy, it doesn’t appear on Google or other search engines at all. makes me wonder if it’s because of the federation or if it’s actively being pushed down…
Really obscure or local stuff is going to be just on Reddit. But yes, I definitely have noticed Lemmy used to appear in search results (Bing via DuckDuckGo usually) but hasn’t for a while.
i spent 15+ years on reddit but when they started to sell out to wall street it was pretty obvious where it was going… but im addicted to doomscrolling so i built an instance to replace my own reddit addiction. the fediverse has filled the gap nicely.
just before it took a hard right turn and replaced half the users with bots
You…I like you. Well done.
My reddit account (the first one) was 12 years old. I nuked it and took a 18 months social media sabbatical. It was nice.
I then set up a second account…that got shadow banned (for the MVNO reasons I outlined above).
Thank you for confirming that my “fuck it, I’ll make my own Reddit. With blackjack and hookers!” plan (aka making your own Lemmy instance) is actually possible.
Please tell me you’re self hosting that on a broken down 2012 laptop, using a $99 GoDaddy domain for the ultimate fuck you asthetic.
How utterly delicious to imagine others spite out-enginering a multi billion dollar company with a box of scraps in a cave, Tony Stank style.
Please tell me you’re self hosting that on a broken down 2012 laptop, using a $99 GoDaddy domain for the ultimate fuck you asthetic.
well, no. i wanted to build something scalable and something a little more fashioned like reddit so i ended up using an open source project called mbin.
its runnin ~40$/m for the resources required on a rental outta helsinki.
i like to keep it open to the public as a fediverse onramp… not a lot of local content, but pulls in quite a bit of shit. i think my compressed database backups are ~7GB. image store is ~500GB/3.25m unique.
after 3 years, some instance stats:
