Im transfem on the internet, I can't trust mainstream platforms and i like the idea of federated platforms, so I ended up here
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So I was actually on Mastodon a long time ago in ~2016, where someone very programmer recommended it to me. I didn't get it and so skipped out but I was aware of it.
Years later, before the API-pocalypse, I was getting frustrated with Reddit and then-Twitter and so bailed out on them. A friend had brought up trying to ditch Facebook and algorithms, and I recalled Mastodon and went to looking at it again, this time giving it a proper try.
Well I stuck around obviously and went to browse around at other Fedi-stuff and stumbled upon Lemmy/PieFed, joining it a short while later.
escaping surveillance, algo feeds, and detoxxing myself and reducing screen time (works like a charm so far)
A lot of youtubers I watch in tech spaces had their mastodon listed for social media, and after looking into it I found the concept of the fediverse neat, so I decided to try out a couple of platforms, and see if it's any better than the cesspit that is mainstream social networks
A few factors:
- Reddit became insuferable with all the "twitter-refugees" and political bots during the last US-Elections.
- The Buy European movement thought me what lemmy was in the first place.
- Before dropping reddit for good, I was using it along side lemmy because lemmy is quite slow compared to reddit. Than reddit did one change that made me delete the app: they made it so that you could put your profile as private. So you could no longer see if it was a grnuine misguided peraon ot just some bot /shit stirrer.
Persona age-verification bullshit on reddit
This + enshittifying itself through tracking and "recommendations".
Interest on foss alternative to big corpo social network. It s not big corpo but if u didn't know well it s just the same
I started to dislike meta and musk more and more.
The API. At that point, I deleted my account and created an account here. Unfortunately, at this point I'm debating going back, especially since you need a login to use old.reddit. As much as I want Lemmy to succeed, there just isn't enough here for me. I was on Reddit for the niche interests like Dota, CS, 3D Printing, military hardware, and Virtual Reality, and none of that is really present here. That said, no way am I downloading their official app. All their new UIs are unusable.
Might I ask, how do access reddit outside of the official app?
You can just use the website, particularly with old.reddit, but u/CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone suggested redlib, which also looks really promising.
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Got banned from reddit for the 5th time
Never been interested in being bubbled and having an algo rammed down my throat - I deliberately go places online that aren’t necessarily for me. I like to see how others live and think. Hate the omnipresence of advertising. Heard about Mastodon, did some reading, ended-up here…
This. I came after seeing a post about lemmy on reddit, but at it's core my move was less about reddit specifically and more about wanting to escape algorithms generally.
Edit to add: I also want to see places outside my comfort zone. How am I meant to learn and grow, if my beliefs are never challenged?
Yeah - the whole thing about the internet for me at the turn of the last century was to discover cool and interesting new stuff, to see things from other perspectives and learn… then one year September didn’t end / became eternal and a generation later here we are. Surfers drowning in algorithms and adverts.
i came for the ideological reason of being able to host one's own communication server.
i stayed for the great community
I speak loudly against immorality because of my neurodivergence, interests and character and it was all okay until I started talking too much about Western imperialism and Israel in the wrong places at the wrong times... so I ended up being banned4lyfe. 🤷♂️😬
They have “auto ban filter” for any anti Zionist content, they directly work with pro Israel agencies. Its not even mods of personal preference, the site itself have ties with pro Israeli agencies.
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So I heard about the concept and it appealed. Its like when I heard stallman talk I started looking for gpl in everything I could. The first time I heard about it was mastadon but I never liked twitter and the format did not appeal to me. When the api thing happened with reddit there was more talk and I found there was the reddit alternative in kbin and lemmy. I like kbin better and went with it and when earnest dropped away I went to mbin as that made kbin kinda abandonware. Mbin was nice enough but did not have the energy that earnest brought to kbin but piefed came out and it kinda had that energy. So I went to that. I do miss moist though.
I made a joke about punching Nazis.
I got thrown off Reddit.
Got annoyed with Reddit and the social media megacorps in general. I can actually sometimes remember and recognize usernames here. Reminds me of old school forums.
Reddit admin and mod corruption.
Preach
I wanted to try and find a smaller community and move to something with less of an algorithm
I'm very interested in the underlying protocol: ActivityPub. It seems like the future of the open web. I'm not so sure that lemmy or mastodon will be the breakaway hit some think it might, but I'm happy to explore what they have to offer.
I'm of the opinion that for ActivityPub to really take off it will need something novel, that isn't a clone of an existing social network. It's a tall order because there are only so many ways you can configure a purely text or even multimedia based platform, but I have faith we'll eventually get there. I've personally been tinkering with the idea of a friend-finding platform that would help people make meatspace or cyberspace friends.
Reddit is just AI garbage these days and the culture there has been shit for long.
It's not much better here, but still
if you aggresively block entire instances where the majority of weirdos come from, it gets a lot better here.
but you get waaaaay less content. the majority of the content and activity is from insane people and their victimhood doomer hater agenda.
I was part of the Great Reddit Emigration of 2023.
distribution of power is good for the humanity. If no one control the whole network, risk of platform-wide abuse of power reduces
I'm in various FGC circles, and when Twitter had... I don't even remember which of its many controversies, it was a few years ago, but something or other resulted in fgc.network being launched and I immediately signed on to the idea of a federated alternative that no CEO can destroy.
At the time I also did peek around some of the other parts of Fedi, uploaded some of my Splatoon stuff to PeerTube but it was a complete ghost town. My first impression of Lemmy was that it wasn't there yet, not enough critical mass.
Then Reddit had its API debacle, and I decided to commit to trying Kbin for a while, for at least as long as the blackout lasts. My impression was still that it wasn't ready to replace Reddit, that it unfortunately can't replace the kinds of niche hobby and fandom communities I used Reddit for, but I thought Kbin's software felt like it had more potential, and I would stick with it. Then the Reddit admins turned sour, the sub I moderated that participated in the blackout had our mod team threatened by the admins, and I knew I was just never going back to Reddit.
Got banned from reddit for being anti russia
Ironically, it was talklittle. I say ironically because even though he directed people to lemmy he himself ended up on tildes.
i used tildes for awhile but it was way too group-thinky for me.
I haven't used any social media before, I'm just interested in anything that's open source or decentralized. So when I heard about Lemmy, I thought I should give it a try and so far I'm loving it!
yeah yeah reddit but looking back it all started when google plus imploded
Either getting ignored or getting all the assholes in one comment section.