A Reddit post promoting the Fediverse that actually gained traction (and Reddit deleted the top comment for promoting Lemmy)

[nima@leminal.space]

how did you find Lemmy? did you find out through reddit?

ive been here over a year now and I sure did. haven't used reddit since.

if you didn't come here from reddit, I'd be curious to hear where you did come from before making a Lemmy account.

[x0chi@lemmy.world]

No, the logo is cute

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

explaining the fediverse would be you join different servers but can still play together?

[captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works]

I still prefer the email analogy with explaining how it works. The WoW analogy is for the people who say "That's too complicated for the unwashed masses to understand." People have been signing up for World of Warcraft going on three decades now, I think they'll figure out lemmy.world vs sh.itjust.works.

[joyjoy@lemm.ee]

old.reddit.com always works for me, even for posts or communities which they force you to log in and/or use the app to view.

[enemyofsun@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I hope more people with niche interests will come to Lemmy - this is the only use case for this kind of social media for me, and Lemmy's a bit lacking in this regard.

But yeah, I'm not looking forward to those redditors who assume everyone's a cis man and stuff

[hanrahan@slrpnk.net]

how did you find Lemmy?

via Mastodon. I still mostly use Mastodon (but I follow hashtags so its a little like an un-curated RSS feed in that respect. I've been on Mastodon for a couple years. I also use a couple other Fediverse projects eg Freindica, Bookwyrm and GotoSocial

did you find out through reddit?

no.

[amanduh@lemm.ee]

People here censor all kinds of shit they don't like lmao

[andros_rex@lemmy.world]

Reddit currently has an active and massive beastiality sub. They don’t allow real images, but they have comment threads with discussion and advice. Just as with r/jailbait, people post fishing for the real stuff.

[nima@leminal.space]

mazel tov. but I was asking the other commenter.

[grrgyle@slrpnk.net]

Mods!! This one, right here. Thanks