Found it mentioned as an alternative when Reddit announced their API changes.

Created my account 3 years ago so I could still access one of the piracy subs in case they were banned from reddit, they used to have an alt community on lemmy.ml…

I came over properly during the reddit blackout, set up the communities I most wanted to see over here (that didn’t exist already), and have stayed ever since

I like the fact that the posts have (generally) sensible comments, without 1000 replies of inane drivel to sift through, overall it feels like a nice quiet corner of the internet where I can recognise usernames and have a brief chat, then be on my way

I came over in the API exodus. Lemmy lacks niche content, so I went back to Reddit. I stick around here because I’m so used to Sync.

When Reddit shut down 3rd party apps. I only used Joey for a single reason, it autohides post after scrolling past them very well, it was the only way reddit is tolerable is by only seeing a post once. Now I use Connect which has a similar autohide feature and I am enjoying Lemmy a lot more than i ever did reddit.

Minutes before the reddit API pricing changes being announced, i started testing 3 party reddit apps because the official one was terrible

While testing, i found a post about the reddit changes but ignored it

I ended up using boost for reddit.

During the community strikes, i rarely opened reddit to check one of the subreddits about the protests

I found out about lemmy from the announcement of he creator of boost for reddit making boost for lemmy

I read about and liked the concept of the Fediverse, opened a few accounts across various platforms, quickly got bored with the small userbase. Then reddit did their thing with the API, I wanted to stop using it entirely, and enough people also migrated to Lemmy at the same time that this is now a level of users and activity to hold my interest.

Reddit APIcalypse. Downloaded Jerboa and came to World after I saw a post in the middle of it.

Reddit referred me to Lemmy just like Digg referred me to Reddit and Slashdot to Digg

During the api debacle I just looked on alternativeto.net and found lemmy. I didn’t want to switch at the time, so I just used both until Relay stopped working and then I just used lemmy.

reddit locking their api was the last straw for me. so i wanted to stand up a reddit clone to fill that hole for me and others.

surfin the githubs for federating platforms… lemmy was fugly, i started with kbin.

i ended up with an mbin instance so i could connect to mastodon as well as all the lemmy content/users.

Knowledge of lemmy was the last great gift that Reddit gave me before it finally completed its transformation to shit.

I’ve been keeping track of free and open source software and federated social media. Discovered Lemmy quite a while before the Spez/Reddit thing happened. But I only really started using it then, as it exploded practically over night and became usable to talk to more than just a dozen people or so.

I’d been on the microblogging side of Fedi for a while and was aware there was a federated reddit-like, but my initial impression of it was that it’s a long way from getting enough of a userbase to sustain the kind of niche hobby/fandom communities I used reddit for.

But once reddit’s API scandal happened, I dropped it and decided to check out the alternative. Still feel like it isn’t really there yet, but eh, I’m here anyway 'cause I’m not going back.

I actually prefer Mbin, but I found out about the Fediverse after searching for reddit alternatives when I heard about the API bullshit Sp*z was planning.

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