is Lemmy the most popular 'Reddit Alternative'?
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Sounds like a scam to get VC money before it eventually turns back into old digg/current Reddit. I wouldn’t join it if I was looking for a good experience, I’d just stick with Reddit.
I’ll stay here instead
I'll keep a foot in both; for as much as I like Lemmy, its marketing and intuitiveness blows and will sadly likely forever remain niche. That has its qualities, but also its downsides.
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or is there another platform that is..
I’ve looked on and off for a couple years now and Lemmy has the most momentum that I’ve seen.
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or is there another platform that is..
The fediverse is your alternative, particularly Lemmy and PieFed. Welcome.
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Sure it does - it doesn't really make sense to separate Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin as separate Reddit alternatives, since you can generally access the same stuff from all three of them. Although arguably it would make sense to say "the threadiverse" since most of the other fediverse software isn't really Reddit-like.
maybe we could also say lemmy+fediverse, like we say GNU+Linux
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The main ones for me are
It's got on boarding and de-duplication, on PieFed if I view eg. this post https://piefed.social/post/749818#comment_6102866
It combines/aggregates it with cross-posts/reposts
So I can see it in one place, and see all the comments in one place.So if you comment there, where will it end up?
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or is there another platform that is..
Not exactly the answer to the question but I do want to comment that I think a lot of people went to sites that aren't Reddit-like if they left Reddit. My husband went to Bluesky.
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or is there another platform that is..
The most popular Reddit alternative is day drinking and screaming racist abuse at passers by on the street.
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ai built in, forced ai tldrs you cant turn off, daily leaderboards for top posters/commenters
Fucking barf. They're gonna breed an even more toxic culture than reddit with that bullshit.
If you thought karma whoring was bad when they just had a number to chase, imagine how bad it will be when you have direct visibility of your competition on being the biggest karma whore in town...
at least its only 24 hours, but that was an issue on reddit where the same ppl daily were known for hitting the front page
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Ah you got the early access for a couple bucks? I'm bummed I missed the window.
I have a lot of things to say having been in the software, journalism domain and thought heavily about conceptualizing what such a platform may look like for the betterment of society. Jimmy Wales has been trying, too. Was on their discord for a bit but I was a little skeptical of their direction, even if noble.
I can send you an invite when they go live this week
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Ah you got the early access for a couple bucks? I'm bummed I missed the window.
I have a lot of things to say having been in the software, journalism domain and thought heavily about conceptualizing what such a platform may look like for the betterment of society. Jimmy Wales has been trying, too. Was on their discord for a bit but I was a little skeptical of their direction, even if noble.
before ppl complain about the money again, it went to a charity everyone voted on in circle and im pretty sure the charity confirmed they received it with a thanks digg or some shit
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Well there's Dread, the most active subdread has almost 500k subscribers
How many active users currently? That's a more important metric than total subscribers, because there's no way to tell how many of them may be dormant.
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Not exactly the answer to the question but I do want to comment that I think a lot of people went to sites that aren't Reddit-like if they left Reddit. My husband went to Bluesky.
I like Bluesky a lot, but it's more a Twitter replacement than Reddit. Harder to talk to dedicated communities for things on there. Like if want show recommendations, I'd rather go to a community/subreddit that has 92k members than asking the 80 followers I have on Bluesky (only like 10 or less aren't bots I'm pretty sure or would even see my post) with the small chance a couple non-followers would see it and maybe comment.
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How many active users currently? That's a more important metric than total subscribers, because there's no way to tell how many of them may be dormant.
Yeah I wanted to check for that but didn't find it in ~60 seconds of clicking around
But your question prompted me to ask Perplexity, who said:
Estimating the active number of users on Dreaddit (usually called "Dread"), the darknet's Reddit-style forum, is challenging due to the platform's anonymous and illicit nature. However, several reputable reports, including cybersecurity analyses and investigative journalism, provide the most credible figures currently available:
User Estimates: As of late 2023, Dreaddit/Dread reportedly surpassed 200,000 registered users. This figure comes from contemporary cyber intelligence briefings and video analyses, which note that while this community size does not rival mainstream platforms, it is substantial for a darknet forum accessible only via Tor or I2P.
Growth and Activity: Dread reached 12,000 users within its first three months in 2018, and by June 2018, it cited 14,683 users. Since then, significant growth has occurred, with user counts likely fluctuating in response to cybercrime trends, law enforcement actions, and DDoS attacks, but reliable reporting indicates the active number has stabilized in the six-figure range since 2022.
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Not exactly the answer to the question but I do want to comment that I think a lot of people went to sites that aren't Reddit-like if they left Reddit. My husband went to Bluesky.
I'm pissed that so many people went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon
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I'm here but I'm also still on Fark after 25 years.
"b00bies"
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That's sort of its whole point, yes
I feel like that would severely limit its reach as a Reddit alternative, then
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I'm pissed that so many people went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon
Mastodon needs a UI that better facilitates on-ramping people new to the platform. I tried it a few times and it just felt like work finding people to follow.
Bsky on the other hand is a twitter clone and so people leaving twitter really don’t need to rework their understanding of how to use the platform.
I don’t like Bsky though so I don’t use either of them.
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or is there another platform that is..
My guess would be redlib as the most popular. It lets you read Reddit without having to turn off your VPN or log in.
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I'm pissed that so many people went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon
I'm actually okay with it. All of the insufferable people appear to be on bsky (all of the Twitter converts) and all the really interesting people are on Mastodon. Bsky is also full of AI slop.
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Mastodon needs a UI that better facilitates on-ramping people new to the platform. I tried it a few times and it just felt like work finding people to follow.
Bsky on the other hand is a twitter clone and so people leaving twitter really don’t need to rework their understanding of how to use the platform.
I don’t like Bsky though so I don’t use either of them.
"Finding people to follow" struck me as odd. Discussing interests with like-minded people or just lurking and reading smart or dumb things would be the standard, at least in my experience. Maybe your path makes more sense. I'm a bit of an introvert so I usually avoid engaging.
