Got banned from Reddit. Enjoying Lenny so far but there’s some subreddits that don’t have enough traffic so I still go back to peruse. Anyone got advice to get around the reddit ban?
Left Reddit because of the API stuff. Still on Lemmy because it’s not as addictive and has a much higher concentration of leftists.
Same.
Came in support of Apollo; I just couldn’t in good conscience continue to support Reddit (even after 19 years) with how they treated external clients.
Found it similar to Reddit so it scratched the same itch.
Because fuck u/spez
Because fuck Spez, that’s why.
I tried Reddit but I had enough with all the rules and corporate cleanliness of it. I used this site called ‘Saidit’ for a bit but but no one ever posted there so I looked into Reddit alternatives and stumbled across Lemmy. The rest is history
Came here because of reddit API drama.
Stayed for the memes
I like having ownership of my internet experience so I run a lemmy instance and my friend administrates it. It is more fun than using a botted network.
do you run it locally?
I started with it locally, but I migrated it to a hosting provider because of their managed services and I’m lazy. I take offsite hourly backups and own the domain so if anything happens I can rebuild it elsewhere.
Which provider? That’s nice to have that freedom
Any tips for getting it running? I’m struggling
I could only get it to work with docker and not using ansible, the instructions are pretty good but if you have a specific question I can try and help. I do IT for a living so I guess I filled in some context maybe https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html
I got it somewhat running but I keep receiving errors from the postgres saying it was shut down. and when i try to login it says toastify is awesome.
You’re right, I should go to bed.
Because I believe in the idea of the Fediverse and I want it to succeed.
Fortune and glory.
Reddit bad.
I got on Reddit because it’s pseudonymous, and the nesting of threads is good. I didn’t appreciate it for a while, but upvote/downvote also provides a useful proxy for what body language does in real life.
Better engagement than Reddit at this point I’m starting to believe it’s all bots for real.
Mostly for memes about beans.
Uh but for real because reddit quite literally sold out and went full corpo.
To give me something to do on my phone during work hours since there’s no way I’m touching the official reddit client
