I joined Reddit in 2005 and liked the format. I had been self-hosting Mastodon for a while before I joined Lemmy because it had long been evident that a centralized corporate internet is not exactly great for its users or the world at large. I had also experimented with Hubzilla and Akkoma.
I looked at Lemmy a couple times before the Reddit API fiasco and it was just a couple servers that were dominated by people who thought Stalin did nothing wrong and killing Uyghurs is just fine and/or not happening. I was not motivated to participate at that time. When lemmy.world launched, I joined it because I had the impression mastodon.world was well-run.
I joined Reddit in 2005 and liked the format. I had been self-hosting Mastodon for a while before I joined Lemmy because it had long been evident that a centralized corporate internet is not exactly great for its users or the world at large. I had also experimented with Hubzilla and Akkoma.
I looked at Lemmy a couple times before the Reddit API fiasco and it was just a couple servers that were dominated by people who thought Stalin did nothing wrong and killing Uyghurs is just fine and/or not happening. I was not motivated to participate at that time. When lemmy.world launched, I joined it because I had the impression mastodon.world was well-run.