• Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Grew up on enthusiast BBS, Lemmy is like a bunch of them are linked up.

    Dislike for profit internet as it must inevitably lead to enshitification, just never had a term for that in the past :)

    I don’t have an issue with “toxicity” as i just ignore it, like a dog shit on the side walk. I prefer the “BBS/Usenet format” to Twitter like Mastodon though I am over on Masto and had been there for many years. I don’t participate much though.

  • Riley@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I was here before the Reddit API kerfuffle, because I care about an open and decentralized internet.

    • abbenm@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      Same! I was hoping for a while that there would be a fediverse version of reddit. And it’s succeeded beyond my wildest hopes. Other than the misinformation, but I suppose that’s a problem everywhere.

  • sag@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    For an actual community. I was tired of Discord and Reddit.

  • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    It started with a distaste for how Reddit was treating developers and moderators, but now I genuinely believe in the future of the fediverse.

  • isagani@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I was in F-droid searching for stuffs, then I found lemmy, since my phone can’t install reddit cause I have storage problems, I tried out lemmy. And now I believe this is better than any community apps.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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    7 months ago

    just lemmy or the federation? im on mbin and I left with the big reddit migration and was pleasantly surprised to find something a bit closer to the old internet I knew. Im one of the few who don’t see the need for it to get popular but its fine to me if it does.

  • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Reddit killed third party apps and their mobile site barely functions, so I wasn’t able to use reddit on mobile without installing spyware/adware.
    Lemmy was the best alternative.