• Nobody@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I was looking for a Reddit alternative for years. I would have been cool with anything non-corporate, but figured it would take ages to build.

    It’s incredible what Lemmy has turned into so quickly. A Reddit alternative went from being impossible to actually existing within a matter of weeks.

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      9 months ago

      As much as that makes a great story… The groundwork for lemmy goes back years. It’s true that lots of issues were addressed and client apps were ported after Reddit started going down hill, but a ton of work was done beforehand to make that all possible.

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        9 months ago

        client apps were ported after Reddit started going down hill

        For me, this can’t be overstated. I don’t work in an office/at a stationary computer and 99.9% of my Reddit time was mobile. I checked out the “mobile apps” for Lemmy, and hated them. I probably wouldn’t be active here at all if it wasn’t for good dedicated apps like Sync.