I’ve been interested in the Fediverse for a long time but didn’t have any reason to jump into it because the applications I was aware of did not appeal to me. If I don’t use Twitter and Instagram, why would I be interested in Mastodon and Pixelfed? This all changed when Reddit announced their API change. Reddit is the only social media site I use, so Lemmy seems like the perfect reason to jump in.
Agreeing with this one.
Except I made a Mastodon account to pad its numbers to make Elon feel bad and used the Mastodon account to follow Lemmy (and just used the site sans account). Once the API changes were announced, all in to make reddit feel bad with larger numbers over here.
Phone is grapheneos, use Linux, all FOSS; why did I take so long to do this? Either this or quit all social media.
Because Reddit has fully turned to the dark side lol. It’s been trending downhill for a while now but with the recent API shenanigans it became very clear it wasn’t going to improve. So here I am lol. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to find an alt (RIP Digg).
Same, plus curiosity and enthusiasm for FOSS. Can’t wait until fediverse is developed enough to host also niche communities like ‘cassette_futurism’ or ‘liminal_space’.
There is a https://lemmy.ml/c/liminalspace community.
Yesss! Now I need to look for poolrooms and vaporwave /synthwave / chillwave type comms.
Seems like those communities are unmoderated, including the !liminalspace@lemmy.ml one. lmk if you’d like to take any of them over.
I’ve been chasing the old Usenet feel for decades. Reddit came close, but I can see the writing on the wall now. Lemmy’s got the possibility to get closer.
