I looked up something like "open source reddit" and came across lemmy and decided to join and stayed. Now I run midwest.social and buckeyestate.social.
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I think I read about it on Mastodon.
Privacyguides.org
Mastodon. Privacytools.io instance when it still existed.
I've been playing around with the Rust programming language on the side for a while. I started an account when I heard Lemmy was being written in Rust.
reddit, and also a friend of mine who makes leftist videos.
Through a post about Lemmy on Reddit.
I honestly don't remember. I think I was actively looking for a federated reddit-like site, because I really liked the concept of a federated platform as an alternative to the monopolistic social media giants, and I stumbled upon a link to lemmy somewhere. The project seemed great and I stayed.
I started looking into Lemmy after I installed LibreWolf and it was listed as one of their socials. I already use Mastodon and Reddit is one of the few proprietary social media sites I'm still on. Lemmy seemed like a no-brainer.
I found it on Reddit. I have been neglecting my Reddit account since joining Lemmy.
I searched for reddit/teddit types of apps on F-Droid, Lemy came up many times with different assistant apps as well. Upon installing it and seeing what was posted I became interested without having known what it was in the first place.
I honestly think I found it on Hacker News and joined out of curiosity. Stayed out of spite when people on the post had their hot takes on the politics.
I downloaded Lemmy out of curiosity when it was featured on F-Droid
My boyfriend, he runs two instances.
I found it from the Privacy Guides "social news aggregators" page. It describes Lemmy as a fediverse-compliant Reddit alternative, which sounded really appealing to me. I joined pretty quickly after that.
Edit: looks like they removed it a couple of days after I posted this lol. I guess that makes sense, given PrivacyGuides is meant explicitly for tools that are designed for privacy, supporting encryption and such. Any social media doesn't really fit that. You can see the discussion that lead to its removal here.
I come because someone on ~~reddit~~ say about FOSS and tell what its lemmy
I was following Dessalines' work when I saw he was working in this project; it's nice. I'm sad hexbear forked so hard federation isn't possible but this is much more sustainable imo. Hope they're able to get their code base in line and merge!
Tbh, I think hexbear trying to maintain a forked codebase in perpetuity sounds like a recipe for failure given how few of their users volunteer. They should have just added a vanilla lemmy subdomain and encouraged people to migrate. Their posting power deserves to be on the fedi and not locked up on its own site.
They will use vainilla Lemmy soon!
Here's to hoping, I hope they find a way to integrate the emojis though
This is the announcement: https://www.hexbear.net/post/159221
And yes, Lemmy's developers want to integrate emojis too (check this tag for more info)