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?
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Can’t remember. Probably 2 weeks ago on a random reddit thread.
Reddit has been banning/deleting comments and subreddits dedicated to Lemmy or Kbin—unless someone notices, then they un-delete or un-ban
Sounds like the Streisand Effect is working.
If I remember correctly, I found Lemmy while looking into how to ‘de-google’ my phone
I think I was looking for open source software and there was a section for social media
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.
Reddit, like most comments here
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.
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I actually knew about it for some years when investigating fediverse software.
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 :)
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.
Saw kbin mentioned in a verge article comment section during the reddit coverage.
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.
