I’ve noticed that most people here are ex-redditors, migrating due to the API changes and u/spez’s problematic leadership. I’m wondering, though, how many people here use Lemmy despite never using Reddit?
Personally, I only ever interacted with r/place, and lurked a few times, but I kept up with the protests and I liked the idea of building up Lemmy as a Fediverse alternative for Redditors to migrate to. So I’m not sure if I count.
You’re probably the only one
I’m an ex-redditor. Had I not used or known about reddit, I would never have known about Lemmy. Likely the same for Mastodon had I not been a twitter user.
@Firefly7 me. never liked reddit much, all due respect to #aaronswarz (which is A LOT of respect). not even enough to make a test account. though it did show up in internet searches of how-to’s a fair bit over the years.
i’d been looking at some things there recently though, through libreddit, cos i’d just found out about libreddit. then protests, etc.
kind of liked lemmy the 1st time i checked it out briefly, which never happened with reddit. it’s got me taking a fresh look at the entire fediverse again.
I only used to use it several hours a day. But not once since the blackout.
Man, I wish I had that strength. Ive tried to avoid reddit, Im not actively searching for it, or logging into it, but it comes up a lot in my google searches and Id feel like a fool for not at least using that resource when Im trying to find an answer to a question I might have.
What’s reddit?
