For me a social media in a linux distro called blendos and because reddit sucks and is soo toxic man
During the api debacle I just looked on alternativeto.net and found lemmy. I didn’t want to switch at the time, so I just used both until Relay stopped working and then I just used lemmy.
reddit locking their api was the last straw for me. so i wanted to stand up a reddit clone to fill that hole for me and others.
surfin the githubs for federating platforms… lemmy was fugly, i started with kbin.
i ended up with an mbin instance so i could connect to mastodon as well as all the lemmy content/users.
When it was a bit too much with all the enshittification and bots on Reddit, I wanted alternatives. Lemmy was a suggestion, and I’ve had a good experience thus far.
I used Reddit app, they closed all Reddit apps so I searched what was next.
I actually heard of Tildes first on reddit, so I tried to get a signup invite but couldn’t. I think I eventually saw Lemmy mentioned and saw how the signup process was easier.
