For me Lemmy was my gateway to the rest of the Fediverse. I can say I like Lemmy way more than I ever did Reddit. The people are nicer the engagement feels more real and over all it’s a better vibe. Here’s to 2 more everyone!

    • Pacrat173@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      50·
      22 天前

      Yep they killed Apollo and I took off running looking for greener pastures I think I went to the right place.

      • lundi@piefed.socialEnglish
        17·
        22 天前

        PieFed has wikis and flairs for communities, Feed feature similar to how people can create their own custom feeds on Bluesky and Topics feature to browse content by subject, you can filter posts by keywords (Lemmy has it too but not on the default interface), warning label by the side of the name of people with too many negative karma/points/reputation to make it easier to spot trolls and some other fun things if you ever want to try it out although theres no mobile app for iOS afaik yet if thats a dealbreaker for you, but theres for android https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd/

      • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        21 天前

        Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      22 天前

      Was that two years already? I thought that was last year. Tme flies when you’re having fun, I guess.

    • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      22 天前

      That’s why I’m here! :D

      The developer of my favorite reddit app (dBrady, Relay for Reddit) decided to play along with Spez’s game and start charging for usage.

      So I fucked off, and after testing every Lemmy app I could find, I settled on Voyager. It’s not optimized for foldables like Relay—and it’s swipe gestures aren’t as intuitive—but it’s close and still better than paying to use reddit.

      Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez

    • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      22 天前

      Is there more than one exodus now? I haven’t been keeping track.

      • lundi@piefed.socialEnglish
        16·
        22 天前

        AFAIK there was another exodus after they announced to be training AI based on Reddit content, another when they went public, another for starting heavily censoring more the platform (some people a while ago were getting banned just for saying Luigi or upvoting posts with it)

        • lucelu2@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          22 天前

          I don’t know if I was part of any major purge or not… I had some temp bans from a bot and then finally a permanent one, just expressing a wish for some blood clot to break free. I mean, it was way less expressive than other posts but I was marked for exit due to violence?!. I felt sad. I deleted an account, made another and then got re-banned within 24 hrs for no specific post, just for trying to overcome the ban… then I did a bit of research and honestly decided they suck, I don’t need them and life offers better platforms. I hate this current internet shitification level though. The way I was treated… well, I kind of understand why people decide to be trolls as a lifestyle behavior. I am not a troll though… just a bit rowdy and irreverent.

          • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            19 天前

            reddit went downhill as soon as they went public and capitulated to MUSK and by extension right wingers, because spez is so in love with him.

            alot of people originally were fighting politcal posts on thier subs from being posted, after the musk purges, they all allow it now, for the ones that dont strictly block politics.

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          19 天前

          i was part of the 1st AI usage of banning. yup once you get a temp ban all your accounts will get ban automatically, regardless if its lifted or not for the original ban. and then i started hearing people were getting shadowban for no reason at all. i still visit the shadowban sub.

    • BigBenis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      22 天前

      Same here! Though I took a 6-month break in between quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy. I remember hoping it would amount to a feeling of liberation but in reality I just felt out of touch with world events and started scrolling through my Google feed instead, which sucked…

    • lundi@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      22 天前

      PieFed becoming a lot more akin to an evolved Reddit than Lemmy lately with the recent updates

      • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        22 天前

        Is that a positive or native opinion of PieFed? I’m genuinely curious since I’ve never really scrolled through PieFed

      • IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        22 天前

        What makes it better and what were these recent updates? Genuinely curious. I hope there is more than one dev, lest it go the way of mbin or kbin, forgot which one was abandoned.

        • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          22 天前

          it was kbin, the first one i registered on because it played nicely mastodon too, and i thought it would be nice to have less tabs permanently open.

          now i have accounts on mastodon, dbzer0’s lemmy, piefed, pixelfed and even friendica goddamnit it’s like collecting pokemon

    • lucelu2@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      22 天前

      I was kind of surprised to find so many that were banned and denied even their appeals. I chose not to appeal because it was obviously they were power addled assholes.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      16·
      22 天前

      4 years wow, so you must really remember the more quiet times. Even just in the last 1 to 2 years it’s got so much busier.

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    22 天前

    2 years is coming up for me shortly. I realized not too long ago that I’ve always been interested in Reddit alt. I signed up to… volt? I forgot the name, but the users were awful so I didn’t stick around. I’m glad lemmy worked out.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    22 天前

    Nearly the same for me, but it was closer to the end of June that I moved.

    I’ve not contributed to Reddit since, and only really occasionally browse it from my computer when I’m looking for something in particular now.

    Kinda helped by the fact the Reddit I used to enjoy seems to be more or less dead anyway. Weird bot filled comment sections, ads shoved in your face, weird monetising features no one asked for, increasingly weird moderation.

  • don@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    22 天前

    Happy 2-year! Damn, I’ll coming up on my 2y in a few weeks. Time flies, and I don’t even remember much about xhitter and reddit anymore.

  • Heliumfart@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    22 天前

    Wow. Same here. Haven’t logged on since then either. Although I do browse r/printsf in my laptop still… Fediverse is the shit