I came here after leaving reddit, when they shut off third party app access. I had already been wanting to leave to another platform, and many people were mentioning Lemmy and the Fediverse as an alternative. The idea of independent federated instances really appealed to me, and losing RIF was my final straw.

I also left Twitter for Mastodon around the same time, although I’m much more active here than on Mastodon.

I’m so glad I did it, because I’ve had a much better experience here. Even though we have bots, spammers, and some bad mods, it’s nothing compared to the shithole that is reddit.