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What made you join Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Bullybeard@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was a long time reddit user, and made a couple new accounts as throwaways last year from different emails but they kept getting shadowbanned everytime I tried to post, comment or send a message. Just last night, my 3 year old account I had no issues using it at all got shadowbanned as soon as I sent a message. It's just so frustrating how hard reddit is moderated and there's no explanations given either they just shadowban you and I don't even know where to ask anyone either I installed Lemmy, hoping it'll be a good alternative and it is great and a lot of things I like about reddit, but there's a significant lack of the type of communities that I browsed in reddit. Hopefully I'll find them here or more people will join and it'll be better. So what made you install Lemmy and what did you wish Lemmy had?

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 8 points 4 days ago (7 children)

I moved to Korea and started posting on r/Korea. I recorded a video of a big fire in Seoul, and because I couldn't find any news about it I uploaded it to my peertube instance and linked it on r/Korea.

The mods banned me for promoting my own website and said I should have uploaded it to YouTube.

So that resource was gone which was a bummer for me who just moved across the world and didn't speak Korean. That was my main reason to use reddit.

I already hosted mastodon and when the 3rd party amargeddon happened I heard about Lemmy. I was hoping that there would be a vibrant Korea community which never happened.

But somehow the UX is much better than on mastodon so I stayed. Later I switched the software from Lemmy to PieFed though.

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (6 children)

What’s piefed

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 3 points 4 days ago (5 children)

It's a similar software as Lemmy and MBin, but it is written in python: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi

It's compatible with the Threadyverse, therefore you can read what I'm writing.

[–] ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

thank you!

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