Congrats! This is definitely a better place than reddit.
4 years over here for me, when lemmy.ml was pretty much the only option.
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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4 years wow, so you must really remember the more quiet times. Even just in the last 1 to 2 years it's got so much busier.
Yes, it was pretty quiet, but I feel the quality was always pretty good, even from the beginning.
Happy 2 years!!! Very glad you had a great time!
2 years is coming up for me shortly. I realized not too long ago that I’ve always been interested in Reddit alt. I signed up to… volt? I forgot the name, but the users were awful so I didn’t stick around. I’m glad lemmy worked out.
Yeah voat was pretty much nazi central
Wow, thanks for the memories. I waded through the Nazis to get my shitposts on Voat, now I wade through the tankies to get my shitposts here. Reality is a wild and magical thing, isn't it?
Do you recall the year?
Yes! Voat… anyway. Grateful for lemmy.
Nearly the same for me, but it was closer to the end of June that I moved.
I've not contributed to Reddit since, and only really occasionally browse it from my computer when I'm looking for something in particular now.
Kinda helped by the fact the Reddit I used to enjoy seems to be more or less dead anyway. Weird bot filled comment sections, ads shoved in your face, weird monetising features no one asked for, increasingly weird moderation.
Wow. Same here. Haven't logged on since then either. Although I do browse r/printsf in my laptop still... Fediverse is the shit
Two years for me, too. But I disagree that it's nicer than on Reddit. The way Lemmy works fosters the development of cliques. Also, with much fewer users it makes it so that 'power' users wind up having a weird cult-like following that boosts their posts/comments and suppresses anyone who dares to point out when those people mistreat other people and/or break the rules that are clearly applied selectively.
Feel free to report such abuse on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
The irony of that suggestion is very amusing, because the moderator/admin of that community/instance is one of those people.
Then report them on !modabuse@lemmy.sdf.org
It's really not worth the effort. Nothing will change, and there will always be others.
I would say it's worth it. Communities have moved to other instances after admin power tripping reports. Users have moved to other communities after mods power trips reports.
Just like old web forums, how nostalgic
So you're from the first reddit exodus (third party apps ban) in 2023 like me.
Same here! Though I took a 6-month break in between quitting Reddit and joining Lemmy. I remember hoping it would amount to a feeling of liberation but in reality I just felt out of touch with world events and started scrolling through my Google feed instead, which sucked...
Yep they killed Apollo and I took off running looking for greener pastures I think I went to the right place.
I also left when Apollo went down! The grass is much greener here if you ask me.
Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too
PieFed has wikis and flairs for communities, Feed feature similar to how people can create their own custom feeds on Bluesky and Topics feature to browse content by subject, you can filter posts by keywords (Lemmy has it too but not on the default interface), warning label by the side of the name of people with too many negative karma/points/reputation to make it easier to spot trolls and some other fun things if you ever want to try it out although theres no mobile app for iOS afaik yet if thats a dealbreaker for you, but theres for android https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd/
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Was that two years already? I thought that was last year. Tme flies when you're having fun, I guess.
That's why I'm here! :D
The developer of my favorite reddit app (dBrady, Relay for Reddit) decided to play along with Spez's game and start charging for usage.
So I fucked off, and after testing every Lemmy app I could find, I settled on Voyager. It's not optimized for foldables like Relay—and it's swipe gestures aren't as intuitive—but it's close and still better than paying to use reddit.
Fuck reddit, and fuck Spez
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Happy lemon cake day!
2 years for me as well!
Happy cake day Dave
Geez that was a quick two years
Almost two years for me too. Wow, time flies.
Happy 2 years!
Happy 2-year! Damn, I’ll coming up on my 2y in a few weeks. Time flies, and I don’t even remember much about xhitter and reddit anymore.
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