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What made you join Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Bullybeard@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It's just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there's no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don't even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it'll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there's a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I'll find them here or more people will join and it'll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?

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[–] HatchetHaro@pawb.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

the API fiasco.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Where my Sync peeps at??

[–] Womdat10@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was one of the leaders of the big fuck spez on r/place, would have been a bit hypocritical if I'd stuck around after the that.

Edit: probably should add a photo

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I wanted to keep using Sync for Reddit and or Boost for Reddit, both clients were built for Lemmy now (as of this message Sync is quite broken though).

Even when I can keep using Sync for Reddit patched with Revanced I truly enjoy using clients such as Voyager (I missed Apollo a lot when I went from iOS to Android) and Summit, Eternity is a good alternative too.

IMHO Summit stands the best because it is the smoothest and behaves almost as good as Sync for Reddit did in its prime.

[–] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's broken about Sync? I use it all the time with no issues.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well, since lemmy.ml is the most updated Lemmy instance (it should be shouldn't it?) I assume you should be facing the same issues as most of us.

For me I stopped using it since it stopped marking as read while scrolling the posts, also it kinda broke upvotes and downvotes but I think I got that fixed modifying some toggle in the Lemmy website...

I can't remember many other instance issues for Sync as of now as I pretty much leave after the 1st one I mentioned.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 weeks ago

I like open protocols and free software, and during the API exodus there was finally enough content that I wanted to jump ship.

of course I had annoyances with reddit, but I have annoyances with Lemmy too.

it's still preferable imho

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 0 points 4 weeks ago

I guessed Reddit's trajectory would only go (mostly) downhill. I say mostly, because a few new features are useful, like comment searching. Awards are also back. Stayed in Lemmy because the community is more focused

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Reddits CEO.

Reddit just isn't fun without Reddit is fun.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I still have RiF installed for the nostalgia.

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago

I left it on my phone for a long time. Then I started to get worried about it not being maintained.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, I was originally here to promote a movie...

[–] Bullybeard@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

I had a crush on you as a teenager when I saw you in suicide squad

[–] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I was already on Mastodon when the API price increase thing happened on reddit and my favourite client (infinity) became useless. I wasn't going to use the bloat-fest that is the reddit app, so I switched to Lemmy in "protest". Now I'm using eternity (a fork of infinity) and I have found a place in this community where I'm incredibly happy. I'm never going back to that shithole and I don't miss anything from there. There's a lot of karma-farming and every single person there reads exactly the same. There's no real discourse. The only times I use it (and through a web browser) is when I'm looking for solutions to some tech-related issue, and that is, if I haven't found the solution here already.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

I've used a lot of different forum types and it's sometimes impressive how much of a systematic difference some decisions can make. By not putting your scoreboard on your profile, simply just not adding a couple of numbers to the page, 'karma' just isn't on my mind and there's no incentive to farm it.

It's degamifying, and it's a good thing.