i didnt come across lemmy, specifically. i wanted to build a public reddit clone, and found ‘kbin’, which federated both microblog (mastodon/universodeon/threads) and threaded forums (lemmy)… so i built that. kbin has since died, but was resurrected in a fork named mbin.

so im not technically on lemmy, but our instance fully federates with it.

ive been actively recruiting users from reddit who dont like swimming in bot farms talkin to eachother.

I always hated reddit. Never used it. When I heard about lemmy, it just sounded better. So, here I am.

Technically I’m from digg

I never used reddit in my life. I joined mastodon few months ago. After that i found Lemmy. And joined

I’ve been following Lemmy development for years since I think decentralized software is cool. I always thought it was a cool idea, but there was never enough content for me. It always seemed like a prototype of an idea. When the API catastrophe struck, I committed to Lemme full time and deleted my reddit account.

While I previously had a Reddit account (which I don’t really used in a frequent basis), I found about Lemmy through Mastodon, which in turn I found about through my search for social network alternative platforms. Turns out I’ve been participating at Lemmy more often through the entire 3 months I’ve been here than I participated at Reddit throughout more than a decade (I joined Reddit in 2012 IIRC).

Kinda sorta. This specific account I opened after the reddit API thing.

I have other Lemmy and broader Fediverse accounts I opened separate from any reddit issues. This is just my active one that is basically my replacement for reddit.

Looking at my password vault history, it looks like my first Fediverse account was probably Friendica. I remember I was looking for an alternative to Facebook. I didn’t think Google+ was going to last, nor did I really want to use another Google platform. I used Ello more at the time, which isn’t based on ActivityPub protocol. Ello never did gain critical momentum and fully closed down within the last year or two. I kept up some interaction with it all the way to the end.

I have never used social media before joining Mastodon, then Lemmy.

I’ve used reddit.com before but I never made many posts or comments and I haven’t used it in years. I’m pretty sure there was a period where I visited it regularly though.

I don’t think I’ve ever posted anything with facebook.com or twitter.com either. I never browsed them for fun, and if I want to coordinate with someone in my family I just contact them directly. I do use youtube.com a lot though.

I tried using pleroma but I haven’t used that in a while either. I prefer lemmy much more (probably because posts being different from comments provides more structure).

I came from EMPRESS’s suggestion to migrate here (she got banned from lemmy.ml and didnt bother to change instance), stuck with here after the whole Reddit API thing.

Jacob from TechLinked mentioned it. I had already dropped Reddit because the app sucks.

I came from Tumblr, heard about this place when when people on Tumblr where talking about the fediverse

I’m from Mastodon

But I got to Mastodon from Reddit, so idk if that counts. :P