I'm here because Reddit got shitty. And I really wanted a decentralized platform, where one person couldn't screw things up for everybody else. It's a lot harder to "take over" a social media platform when it's spread out over 600 Instances in many different countries.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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Initially because reddit permabanned me. Then I got comfy here
I don't think all social media should be based in one country because that creates a risk of political censorship.
It's the spot!
Because I love sync
I want to talk to people online but reddit is too yucky. Lemmy has a better community than reddit and it's not for proffit open source decentralized and all the other things that I love.
The lack of accountability of mods on reddit. Reddit doesn't want to lose their free labor.
For BSD and Unix community
I can't be on Reddit, but I like the branching comment format and thematic post grouping ideas I learned there.
just lemmy or the federation? im on mbin and I left with the big reddit migration and was pleasantly surprised to find something a bit closer to the old internet I knew. Im one of the few who don't see the need for it to get popular but its fine to me if it does.
waiting for a bus
Honestly don't remember why I signed up. I like it though. Kind of similar vibe to when I used Reddit except much better. It's got some nice small-ish (but not too small) communities for FOSS stuff.
I left Twitter and Reddit and I found Lemmy and Mastadon. Lemmy is going much better than Mastadon.
less bootlicker trans community here than on reddit