Was thinking of trying something like Reddit. And I never imagined I would like a platform this much… And I’m also glad that I came to Lemmy instead of using Reddit
Got sick of reddit morons, but increasingly they are moving over.
Got banned from Lemmygrad
because I’m not a US progressive,
as I’m not pro-US unless the country is given back the land to the indigenous people.Just to get away from Reddit and help make the fediverse successful.
Reddit’s bot detection bot banned me for being a bot. The irony was too much.
First set of accounts on reddit perma banned for discussing jiujitsu technique - inciting violence.
Second set of accounts on reddit perma banned for recommending a lady with a stalker problem use her American freedom and get a gun for home defense - You know what you did type response.I was already on Lemmy when my subs shut down to protest the API blackout.
Because reddit shut its api access off and “rif is fun for reddit” stopped working, duh.
I just want to see less bots and find real community and conversations. I also love the concept of decentralized platforms. I feel like the Internet mostly isn’t even real. I miss what it was like 15+ years ago.
Reddit killed third party apps
Yup. I still miss my rif app. It just felt like such a bad decision. Especially limiting NSFW. I needed to try something else.
It wasn’t just that. I used the first party app so the API changes didn’t affect me. It was how bad they handled the whole situation that made me lose faith that reddit was going in a good direction. That thread “addressing” the changes and concerns was brutal.
Reddit destroying third party apps was the last straw for me. So, I hopped on kbin and some Lemmy instances. Reddit continues to degrade, and Reddit mods are annoying.
RIP Aaron Swartz (Reddit removed him as a founder).
reddit isn’t fun
Graduating from “leftist” Reddit, I’m afraid.
Gonna glaze the 'grad specifically - on the whole it’s done wonders for my revolutionary optimism and mental health, which in turn has lead to me actually doing some organizing irl.
Finding places full of people who actually know their shit and aren’t swept up into the lies of neoliberalism and capitalism is a major step up from feeling utterly alone and helpless in the imperial core surrounded by people who at times feel utterly alien and unreachable.
Basically just using this space to say thanks for existing, as well as thanks to such incredibly consistent and well-informed posters like yogthos, cfgaussian, cowbee, rainpizza and others for their constant analysis and discussions that have definitely patched up a lot of holes in my own understandings of leftist history and thought.
Thanks for the kind words, comrade! Glad you’re here! 🫡
Reddit killed third party apps and I refused to use their shit app. It all just stinks of enshitification. So I spun up my own instance of Lemmy and haven’t looked back.
You seem like a high initiative individual. Congrats. I lack technical sophistication to even buy a domain name lol. How much do you pay for lazysoci.al per year (the domain name)?
It’s about £10 a year. I’m lucky though as I run a small side business which has some hosting capabilities. So there is already an enterprise grade set of servers ready to deploy Lemmy. I don’t need to look for hosting costs or be worried about performance as the servers are paid for and are top spec.
What is your Lemmy instance?
Someone linked to lemmygrad on r/latestagecapitalism. I looked at both lemmy and lemmygrad (this was pre-federation) and realized that the “hard-coded slur filter” was genius.
apicalypse, rip apollo
Never seen the term apicalypse and just had to say it’s fantastic.
That was my fediverse cohort too.
Same. I could only reddit through Boost.
Typing this from Boost for Lemmy :)
