I had heard about lemmy a while back, but after having tried mastadon I thought Lemmy was just another Twitter clone so I did not try it until the api debacle.
Glad to have been part of this since second year, and my dumbass helped alongside 5-10 OGs to establish it as the defacto Reddit alternative just in time.
I have never used another Reddit clone before this as I did not consider them worthy or sane.