Hope a two part question is allowed but after mostly lurking a lot, I’m noticing that there do seem to be quite a lot of Xennials. But on the other hand, also plenty of rebellious youth.
In my mind I’m thinking that Lemmy userbase is (very broadly generalizing) dividing into people who saw internet’s early days and as such, aren’t scared of the slight technical hurdles to enter. They tend to be a bit worldweary but Lemmy does feel a bit more like OG internet, which they like (this is me). But also, there’s younger people who are techy enough to deal with the hurdles too but see using Lemmy as a sort of an act of rebellion against the mainstream internet (which I appreciate).
That said I feel like the two clash a lot since the former tends to have fewer shits to give than the latter. As often is the case in the whole history of humanity.
Obviously there’s plenty of people who don’t fall into either camps, which is why I’m curious. Lemmy is small enough to have a sense that there are actual, real, individual people here, as opposed to Reddit’s amorphous blob of a massive userbase most of whom seem like bots.
Early 40s.
The API thing almost did it for me. The only reason it didn’t is because Reddit kept working through RedReader (still does). It was the bot banning that finally did it for me. Repeated bans and new accounts because some bot autobanned me for things I really don’t think I should have been banned for. Started noticing the bot banning was targeting comments that mentioned the 2nd amendment. That’s when I noped out. I had already been subbed to /r/RedditAlternatives for a while and Lemmy seemed to be what most people were posting about, so that’s what I went with.
Also found out that subs could autoban you for posting in other subs they don’t like. So you’d comment in a sub and immediately get an automated message from another sub saying you’re permanently banned from their sub for posting in that sub.
I don’t need that shit. I don’t need that shit even if I was getting paid for it. And I wasn’t. Bye, Felicia!!!
Interesting. I’m 46, and sometimes I feel like a frog in boiling water online. I can ignore things I don’t like, generally, but I feel like the www I love/d has been replaced by a maze of ads.
I was thinking about how the www up until, say, Covid was selecting for and encouraging a libertarian bias, but nowadays – now that the technical capabilities exist! – there are many moves towards conformity.
Almost 40. The official reddit app would not run on my dogshit phone. I went through a few apps, settled on connect. It eats space still but I can clear the cache.
I am sad a lot of the little subs (communities here I suppose) don’t exist but not quite enough to make them. I’ll stick to being a main contributor to the canning one lol.
communities here I suppose
Yes. Never call them ‘comms’.
Turned 20 last week. I found lemmy through reddit about 2 years ago.
Backstory :
My parents had flat refused home internet until 2020 when online classes made it a requirement.
Since I am 14, at home, and just got introduced to the wide world of web, I looked up tutorials on becoming a hacker like in the movies and got into linux.
General social media was still too overwhelming for me but I did like reddit for the linux content. I later saw the “about” page of r/unixsocks explaining they are on c/unixsocks now.
I checked lemmy and community was better here, also reddit had and alt-right problem so I decided to migrate.
Which instance and time of day you ask this is going to give different results I suspect. I’m a 500 year old antarctican. I came here after stopping on mastodon for a bit after leaving reddit.
40s. Saw Lemmy mentioned on Reddit around the time of the API debacle. It became clear to me that reddit would not be usable in the long run, as it is unusable without 3rd party clients.
Upon checking Lemmy out, it reminded me of the kind of internet I hadn’t seen in ages, so I stayed.
Xennial here. I despise enshittification, so I wanted some kind of alternative to reddit. I still need to set it up a bit better, but whatever.
I still read reddit through a reddit viewer, but no longer participate.
Mid 30s. Noticed that a lot of posts reaching my country’s front page started spreading right wing talking points. This was a concerning development, because previously my impression of Reddit was that it leaned left. Made me wonder, whether it was hijacked for Propaganda reasons.
In my 70s. In response to the U.S. aggression, I switched to Lemmy.ca, a Canadian owned media. Not many other Canadian owned social media sites out there.
RIP Nexopia
I’m 26, used Reddit for a long time, but the primary way I came to find out about Lemmy was because I was already on Mastodon and a fediverse enthusiast. I was here before the API scandal.
Not yet 30, and I got banned from reddit after 13 years for saying nazis deserve to be dead. Hit too close to home for the admins with that one, evidently. I have alts that they can’t find, but I mainly hang here now.
Ayo fuck nazis
Fuck pedos
Fuck fanatics of any kind
Fuck the zios
Fuck the billionares
And fuck my girlfriend, lovingly (if I had one)
FREEDOM, BITCHES 🦅🦅🦅🦅
- Old
- LONG time redditor that got fed up during the original API bullshit. Ive been here for a bit. Feels like home. 2.a. I feel like I am in both camps. I don’t mind the technical hurdles (it really wasn’t THAT bad, folks). I also do it for rebellious purposes.
24 (approximately)
Doesn’t take much knowledge to find Lemmy, I like a topic-based forum, not some influencer-follower twitter like shit… I don’t like “following” “people”… I want to talk about stuff not people… was on Reddit… and just have a burning hatered for authoritiarians and bullshit like: “AUTOMODERATOR: OPPSIES YOUR KARMA ISN’T ENOUGH…” or “YOUR POST HAVE BEEN AUTOMATICALLY REMOVED”… and a desire for freedom.
Techical Knowledge? Idek how to do coding lmao…
Never knew what internet was like in the “Good Ol’ Days” or whatever y’all are talking about, my first glance at the internet was in 2010
24 (I think?)
I wanted to have somem actual freedom of speech and not see AI generated posts and botting.
early 40s. Reddit API scandal in 2023.
Same!
Same. Tried to go back late last year and it was a sloppy disappointment. Partner kept talking about Lemmy and after checking it out I joined. It sorta reminds me of old Reddit (joined in 2013) yet very different.
It’s a bit less clean cut for me. I started using Reddit in 2012, at first just the Minecraft sub and later mostly IT related stuff. I joined the threadiverse via a small niche Lemmy instance after the API scandal in summer 2023 but didn’t delete my reddit account until that November. I lurked on Lemmy for about a year before I started posting in earnest on the Worldbuilding community on .world. Now I’m bouncing around various fediverse platforms.
I wish NodeBB would take off as a platform. I want a home for more permanent discussion and personal connection.
Me too
Same.
This is me
- I joined Reddit when I was like 14, then when I heard about the API stuff and saw Lemmy mentioned as like Reddit but with more freedom of speech, I switched. (I guess I was wrong about that, here can have it’s overzealous moderators too…) I was about 15/16 I think? I’ve been here over two years over various accounts.
