Me! I’m new to social media in general, decided to engage with it earlier this year by looking up lists of social media sites and then joined the ones I could find that I vibed with!

Technically I’m from digg

i didnt come across lemmy, specifically. i wanted to build a public reddit clone, and found ‘kbin’, which federated both microblog (mastodon/universodeon/threads) and threaded forums (lemmy)… so i built that. kbin has since died, but was resurrected in a fork named mbin.

so im not technically on lemmy, but our instance fully federates with it.

ive been actively recruiting users from reddit who dont like swimming in bot farms talkin to eachother.

I always hated reddit. Never used it. When I heard about lemmy, it just sounded better. So, here I am.

I have never used social media before joining Mastodon, then Lemmy.

I never used reddit in my life. I joined mastodon few months ago. After that i found Lemmy. And joined

I came from Tumblr, heard about this place when when people on Tumblr where talking about the fediverse

I’m from Mastodon

But I got to Mastodon from Reddit, so idk if that counts. :P

I created my account a couple years before any of the recent reddit migrations. I am always interested in alternatives to the status quo and simply searched in DDG “reddit alternatives” one day and bam, Lemmy came up.

I signed up, but honestly I barely used it back then as the traffic was miniscule.

I kind of just hung onto this account and it ended up being my main social media outlet now that there’s more people here. I’m hoping Lemmy thrives and attracts more users. It is objectively better than Reddit, it just needs more users and communities imho.

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Kinda sorta. This specific account I opened after the reddit API thing.

I have other Lemmy and broader Fediverse accounts I opened separate from any reddit issues. This is just my active one that is basically my replacement for reddit.

Looking at my password vault history, it looks like my first Fediverse account was probably Friendica. I remember I was looking for an alternative to Facebook. I didn’t think Google+ was going to last, nor did I really want to use another Google platform. I used Ello more at the time, which isn’t based on ActivityPub protocol. Ello never did gain critical momentum and fully closed down within the last year or two. I kept up some interaction with it all the way to the end.

Jacob from TechLinked mentioned it. I had already dropped Reddit because the app sucks.

I came from EMPRESS’s suggestion to migrate here (she got banned from lemmy.ml and didnt bother to change instance), stuck with here after the whole Reddit API thing.

Me

Slashdot > Digg > Reddit > Lemmy