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.
Because reddit shut down my favorite app.
I’m still using BaconReader thanks to reVanved.
Say what? Bacon reader still works?!
It does on Android with a personal Reddit API key and ReVanced. There are instructions posted over st r/baconreader.
I’m using Sync for lemmy and another Sync for reddit thanks to ReVanced.
The reddit community has been reduced to a mob of slobbering children and bots though, so I’m not on there nearly as much. I also avoid contributing because I want to see it slowly die out. Sadly it is still the only source for some information.
For Lemmy, I’m using Boost.
I’m using Sync for lemmy and another Sync for reddit thanks to ReVanced.
I used to do this, effectively it confused my brain of which platform I was at at the moment lol.
Anyway not anymore since Sync for Lemmy is so busted to me in my instance (not even showing upvotes for example) and the dev has been absent for so long that I am already using another app (my personal favorites are Summit, Voyager and Boost).
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.
Reddit’s API fuckery. That’s it, that’s the whole reason. Fuck spez.
Because fuck u/spez
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
Because fuck Spez, that’s why.
Fortune and glory.
Came here because of reddit API drama.
Stayed for the memes
Because I believe in the idea of the Fediverse and I want it to succeed.
You’re right, I should go to bed.
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
Better engagement than Reddit at this point I’m starting to believe it’s all bots for real.
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.
