I went to see Motörhead at Rockfabrik Ludwigsburg around 1986 and there he was, center stage.

Oh. I learned about lemmy a while back after searching something like “fediverse like reddit”. I didn’t join until this year. I didn’t know about the API wars until afterward.

I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?

The RedditAlternatives sub is about 10 years old. Fediverse sub 5 years. The Lemmy sub is newish, only 1 year.

Can’t remember. Probably 2 weeks ago on a random reddit thread.

Came across a reference to it on Reddit. I didn’t do anything at the time, but when I came across two or three more references to it just before the blackout I thought I’d give it a try.

Reddit, like most comments here

Saw kbin mentioned in a verge article comment section during the reddit coverage.

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From a comment on Reddit.

I caught the post about reddit censoring mentions of lemmy that made it to the front page. Streisand effect.

On the blackout day of Reddit I hop here, I’m still here an will be for a long time.

On Mastodon!

After I saw the AMA with spez, I didn’t have any hope for reddit being useable anymore. So I googled for something else to do my doom scrolling. I ran across a 4 year old YouTube video explaining the fediverse. Then I googled fediverse reddit alternative, and here I am. I wish I would have found out about all of this a long time ago.

From discussion on the unixporn subreddit about moving the sub

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Old account here. I was directed to Hexbear after r/cth was banned from Reddit. Later on, I learned about other instances. Federation wasn’t a thing back then; I made an account here to check federation out once it finally released.

in a comment about the german r/ich_iel blackout, it was about feddit tho so more about the fediverse in general