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?

  • shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee
    16·
    2 years ago

    Reddit has been banning/deleting comments and subreddits dedicated to Lemmy or Kbin—unless someone notices, then they un-delete or un-ban

    • ArtieShaw@kbin.social
      13·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • krevassi@kbin.social
        3·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • Rozinante@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    2 years ago

    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 :)

  • Lewistrick@feddit.nl
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Wander@yiffit.net
    4·
    2 years ago

    I actually knew about it for some years when investigating fediverse software.

  • tchotchony@mander.xyz
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • bdvenom@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • CoderKat@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, when I first came here, I entirely expected that Reddit would eventually cave and I’d return to it. I expected the Fediverse to fail. But instead Reddit has doubled down and the Fediverse has rapidly gotten considerably better. I’m intending to stay here.

      Though admittedly I do worry about some smaller subs. Eg, my local city sub was fairly active on Reddit and was a great place to get local recommendations, learn about stuff going on, etc. I ended up making the community myself (@Waterloo@kbin.social), but there’s yet to be any other subscribers (though this does remind me to go post about it in subs for the province).