is Lemmy the most popular 'Reddit Alternative'?
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As far as the Fediverse goes, yes. I looked into kbin a while back, and it looked promising, but Lemmy had a huge start and it seems like kbin’s development has halted.
kbin lives on via the community fork mbin! Ernest was great, but he got sick and overwhelmed
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It has some flaws like a lot of ai built in, forced ai tldrs you cant turn off, daily leaderboards for top posters/commenters, but I still like it more than reddit's current form, but thats prob becuase it isnt public yet
It is NOT difficult to build a superior product right now. But you're battling the legal side of Big Tech's takeover to get infrastructure/marketing. Enshittification demands that the people can't find the incentive or will to leave, and were firmly there as society.
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i have nothing but anecdotal evidence to go off of but just today i saw a lemmy post used as a source in a news article, which i can't say i've ever seen of any other "link aggregator" aside from reddit. so it's certainly up there!
and like others said, the activitypub interoperability certainly helps. i'm an mbin user but i'd wager more than half of my subscribed "magazines" are actually lemmy communities
Holy shit that’s pretty sweet
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As far as the Fediverse goes, yes. I looked into kbin a while back, and it looked promising, but Lemmy had a huge start and it seems like kbin’s development has halted.
Considering that Lemmy and kbin/mbin (and now Piefed) federate with each other, do they really count as separate Reddit alternatives anyway? It's just all the same Threadiverse.
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Lemmy: The 3.6 Roentgen of social media.
That's not great but not terrible.
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I saw Lemmy on an Instagram meme page, and I haven't seen any other reddit alternative (unless you count 4chan technically)
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Is it Onion only?
That's sort of its whole point, yes
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or is there another platform that is..
Touching grass probably has us beat
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I like Mbin but Lemmy is probably more popular.
I prefer PieFed, it's growing a lot and shares content with Lemmy and mbin.
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or is there another platform that is..
Based on users yes, but also checkout PieFed.
I switched to it a few months back, it's like Lemmy but better.
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or is there another platform that is..
I'm here but I'm also still on Fark after 25 years.
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Another corporate platform whose goal is to make its owners rich. It might look good in the early days when they need to attract users, but once they gain dominance, they will start to extract more and more value from you, just like Reddit is doing. And if they don’t reach that critical mass of users, it will simply fail. There is simply no pathway for a healthy, sustainable platform under corporate ownership.
The nature of walled gardens greatly limits user bargaining power, allowing owners greater latitude in abusing their users. This is why the fediverse is a much better model. And why I’m here even though I think the Lemmy developers are just as despicable as the people who started Reddit and Digg.
You can move to PieFed or mbin and still access the same content, without using tankie software.
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Touching grass probably has us beat
Overrated
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404media is exactly the site I would expect to be aware of Lemmy among the semi-mainstream tech outlets (along with TheVerge to a lesser extent).
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or is there another platform that is..
Probably. I went searching specifically for reddit alternatives. Found Lemmy immediately and haven't bothered to go looking for others. I assume many here followed the same path I did.
We're pretty lazy as a species.
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or is there another platform that is..
There is lobste.rs which I see in Google search sporadically, but I think that is because it favors common domains and Lemmy content is spread out over thousands of indivdual domains
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Based on users yes, but also checkout PieFed.
I switched to it a few months back, it's like Lemmy but better.
(for me at least)For OP's purposes they're probably identical.
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There is lobste.rs which I see in Google search sporadically, but I think that is because it favors common domains and Lemmy content is spread out over thousands of indivdual domains
lobsters is invite-only so..... the definition of "reddit alternative" will vary per person in this case.
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Based on users yes, but also checkout PieFed.
I switched to it a few months back, it's like Lemmy but better.
(for me at least)What makes piefed better than Lemmy?
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What makes piefed better than Lemmy?
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.
