Hope a two part question is allowed but after mostly lurking a lot, I’m noticing that there do seem to be quite a lot of Xennials. But on the other hand, also plenty of rebellious youth.
In my mind I’m thinking that Lemmy userbase is (very broadly generalizing) dividing into people who saw internet’s early days and as such, aren’t scared of the slight technical hurdles to enter. They tend to be a bit worldweary but Lemmy does feel a bit more like OG internet, which they like (this is me). But also, there’s younger people who are techy enough to deal with the hurdles too but see using Lemmy as a sort of an act of rebellion against the mainstream internet (which I appreciate).
That said I feel like the two clash a lot since the former tends to have fewer shits to give than the latter. As often is the case in the whole history of humanity.
Obviously there’s plenty of people who don’t fall into either camps, which is why I’m curious. Lemmy is small enough to have a sense that there are actual, real, individual people here, as opposed to Reddit’s amorphous blob of a massive userbase most of whom seem like bots.
Gen X but I came to use (and host) lemmy as an act of rebellion against corporate controlled internet
same
40-plus, I wanted a non-American alternative to reddit.
Not yet 30, and I got banned from reddit after 13 years for saying nazis deserve to be dead. Hit too close to home for the admins with that one, evidently. I have alts that they can’t find, but I mainly hang here now.
Ayo fuck nazis
Fuck pedos
Fuck fanatics of any kind
Fuck the zios
Fuck the billionares
And fuck my girlfriend, lovingly (if I had one)
FREEDOM, BITCHES 🦅🦅🦅🦅
Lolllllll.
early 40s. Reddit API scandal in 2023.
Same.
Same!
Same. Tried to go back late last year and it was a sloppy disappointment. Partner kept talking about Lemmy and after checking it out I joined. It sorta reminds me of old Reddit (joined in 2013) yet very different.
It’s a bit less clean cut for me. I joined the threadiverse via a small niche Lemmy instance after the API scandal in summer 2023 but didn’t delete my reddit account until that November. I lurked on Lemmy for about a year before I started posting in earnest on the Worldbuilding community on .world. Now I’m bouncing around various fediverse platforms.
I wish NodeBB would take off as a platform. I want a home for more permanent discussion and personal connection.
Me too
This is me
how old are you
Nearing my 60s.
and how did you come to be on Lemmy?
Left Reddit because of their bullshit policy changes. Knew what the Fediverse was, tried Lemmy (then moved to Piefed) and decided I may as well stay for a little while ;)
41, came to Lemmy during the API thing.
I think I’m pretty rare on Lemmy: I use Windows on my PC (although I’ve dabbled in Linux) and I don’t work in a tech field at all.
39, left reddit like most here because of the API bullshit.
Now its looking like I’m going to have to leave everything because of the crap my state is trying to pull with device level age verification… Yeah… No. I’ll just draw memes for myself at that point lol
I’ll just draw memes for myself
Hide them in the pages of a bible. Smuggle them out of state to a place with more freedom. Have someone scan them and post them on the internet.
Late 30s; got tired of getting constantly banned for every god damn thing. When they killed off my favorite reddit app that was the last straw.
Fuck reddit and fuck that little pedophile Spez.
In my 40’s. Got permabanned for stating pedophiles should be killed.
Interesting that it seems like most people here are around 30 or are 50+.
I’m in my 40’s. Reddit being an increasingly bigger piece of shit led me here. Mostly the api changes but also they literally banned me for something that isn’t even against rules, I think a bot banned me actually. I appealed it and they unbanned me but I was already pissed, as they were forcing everyone into a worse experience and also idly watching Nazis slither around, increasing in number every day. But if you said mean words as a leftist you would get banned-- I also got temp bans for things like that.
I think I saw reddit posts about Lemmy, I forget, but I was actively thinking of leaving already, however I found it.
- Old
- LONG time redditor that got fed up during the original API bullshit. Ive been here for a bit. Feels like home. 2.a. I feel like I am in both camps. I don’t mind the technical hurdles (it really wasn’t THAT bad, folks). I also do it for rebellious purposes.
- Reddit banned me for being pro-ukraine
Early 40s.
The API thing almost did it for me. The only reason it didn’t is because Reddit kept working through RedReader (still does). It was the bot banning that finally did it for me. Repeated bans and new accounts because some bot autobanned me for things I really don’t think I should have been banned for. Started noticing the bot banning was targeting comments that mentioned the 2nd amendment. That’s when I noped out. I had already been subbed to /r/RedditAlternatives for a while and Lemmy seemed to be what most people were posting about, so that’s what I went with.
Also found out that subs could autoban you for posting in other subs they don’t like. So you’d comment in a sub and immediately get an automated message from another sub saying you’re permanently banned from their sub for posting in that sub.
I don’t need that shit. I don’t need that shit even if I was getting paid for it. And I wasn’t. Bye, Felicia!!!
Interesting. I’m 46, and sometimes I feel like a frog in boiling water online. I can ignore things I don’t like, generally, but I feel like the www I love/d has been replaced by a maze of ads.
I was thinking about how the www up until, say, Covid was selecting for and encouraging a libertarian bias, but nowadays – now that the technical capabilities exist! – there are many moves towards conformity.
- This one has been around.
Lemmy is the spirit of the UBB board continued, many of us are the remnants of the old web, just following the endless chain to whatever the next big exodus will be, seeing how many come with us, and the names that fade with each hop.
I have treated Lemmy differently. I was pseudo anonymous on Reddit. I treat Lemmy the same way I treat a darkweb overlay network. (no this isn’t my first account)
This has more to do with the times than community trust, but I’ve been an anon for a while before too, it’s nothing new.
less than 20, reddit pissed me off by killing the API so i could no longer use Infinity for Reddit.
