Just wondering what brought everyone here.

Background: I was banned from Reddit for questioning the system and feel that true leftist ideologies on Reddit are severely censored (despite being considered one of the few last leftist social media platforms). I think the left needs more tech literacy and I hope the Fediverse is the future.

So, I am wondering what made folks curious about alternative options?

  • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I left when it became clear they had no interest in dealing with nazi sympathisers, and when it became clear that transphobia was acceptable, as long as it was “civil”. This was long before the Reddit API exodus

    I found lemmy when looking for fediverse/federated Reddit like platforms, and spun up an instance to test it out. It was basically only me on the instance until the Reddit exodus happened, and then suddenly the instance and lemmy add a whole saw a huge growth in traffic.

    And then we spun up a piefed instance when it became clear the lemmy devs also hold some shitty beliefs, so that users who wanted an alternative could have one.

    I’m not going anywhere. Federated/decentralised social media is the future as far as I’m concerned. At the very least, it’s the only future I’ll consider.