For me a social media in a linux distro called blendos and because reddit sucks and is soo toxic man
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.
Found it mentioned as an alternative when Reddit announced their API changes.
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 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.
I read about and liked the concept of the Fediverse, opened a few accounts across various platforms, quickly got bored with the small userbase. Then reddit did their thing with the API, I wanted to stop using it entirely, and enough people also migrated to Lemmy at the same time that this is now a level of users and activity to hold my interest.