Lurked Calckey for a bit , i was fan of Freeplay's userstyles
But decided to go for kbin bc it's not limited to redditlike functions , promising for interacting with rest of 'verse all under one account
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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I was vaugly aware of Mastadon and the federation idea. Thought it was a cool idea but I just hate the Twitter format so never thought more of it.
I had some vague notion of what it was, but hadn't really wrapped my head around it. I had a Mastodon account, but that whole style of posting has never really appealed to me, so I didn't invest any effort into figuring it out.
In the wake of the API thing, I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do about Reddit. I used RIF, so it was going to affect me, and there's no way I'd ever use Reddit's inexcusably shitty excuse for an app, so I was going to have to figure something out, but there are always alternatives for people who are willing to look for them, so I wasn't all that concerned.
But then spez did that petulant and bitchy AMA and I realized that it was probably time to look for a new forum, because that was a pretty clear signal that their intention was to make things much, much shittier and fuck you if you don't like it. So I started poking around and found a mention of kbin/lemmy and came to check it out.
I was just curious to see what it was about, and assumed that at most, I'd just bookmark it and keep looking. But somewhere along the way, it suddenly clicked and I understood what the fediverse was really all about, and I just... stayed. I didnt make a conscious decision to leave Reddit - I just never went back, because I have no reason to.
I had used mastodon, akkoma and peertube before learning about Lenny when the Reddit stuff happened. I have never had an account on twitter and rarely used my Reddit account.
freedombox and some stuff I vaguel remember about an open source social media
I had a Mastodon account but didn't really understand how it all worked, I thought it was only for Twitter like applications. I really like the concepts of self hosting stuff so when the Reddit strike happened and I found out what Lemmy was, I decided to try it out and have been learning along the way.
I didn't know anything about it, and I still pretty much don't know anything about it. In my super hazy interpretation, it sounds like it pretty much means there are a bunch of spaces that work standalone but it's possible to access one from another without having to sign up or anything to the other. Or something. I'll probably look into it someday but for now I'm just happy to have it.