is Lemmy the most popular 'Reddit Alternative'?
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or is there another platform that is..
I think digg is poised to come back? I looked but they only have an iOS app for some reason.
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or is there another platform that is..
For sure. If you check out the subreddit for alternatives it’s basically: posts advertising Lemmy, posts complaining about Lemmy, and posts for new alternatives with like 5 users, typically by the founder who appears to be engaged in some get-rich quick scheme.
Oh and people who for some reason buy the BS from Digg.
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or is there another platform that is..
lemmy, mbin, piefed all aggregate the same stuff and its all reddit like. people make places to discuss particular things.
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Along with the compatible platforms like PieFed, Mbin, Friendica, nodeBB, etc., this seems to be the biggest general-purpose with communities
It's nice that we can all work together. And the networking effect helps out quite a bit. We are not in competition, we are a collaboration.
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I think digg is poised to come back? I looked but they only have an iOS app for some reason.
That would be kinda funny lol
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or is there another platform that is..
I like Mbin but Lemmy is probably more popular.
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or is there another platform that is..
wrote last edited by [email protected]Digg is returning to something resembling its OG days.
It's being led by the unusual partnership of Alex Ohanian (one of 3 co-founders of Reddit, better than Huffman), and Kevin Rose (Digg founder).
They bought back the rights and are building it now. It may end up being more popular than reddit.
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For sure. If you check out the subreddit for alternatives it’s basically: posts advertising Lemmy, posts complaining about Lemmy, and posts for new alternatives with like 5 users, typically by the founder who appears to be engaged in some get-rich quick scheme.
Oh and people who for some reason buy the BS from Digg.
I confess, I've been cautiously optimistic about the new old Digg. What's BS about it in your view?
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I hope I can remember my password.
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I confess, I've been cautiously optimistic about the new old Digg. What's BS about it in your view?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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or is there another platform that is..
Well there's Dread, the most active subdread has almost 500k subscribers
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or is there another platform that is..
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
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or is there another platform that is..
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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Well there's Dread, the most active subdread has almost 500k subscribers
Is it Onion only?
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or is there another platform that is..
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.
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the fediverse is the most popular reddit alternative.
the individual platforms, like lemmy, are a part of an ecosystem.
I know you rehearsed this and everything but I don't think it quite fits
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I know you rehearsed this and everything but I don't think it quite fits
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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Well there's Dread, the most active subdread has almost 500k subscribers
I forgot abou that years ago
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Digg is returning to something resembling its OG days.
It's being led by the unusual partnership of Alex Ohanian (one of 3 co-founders of Reddit, better than Huffman), and Kevin Rose (Digg founder).
They bought back the rights and are building it now. It may end up being more popular than reddit.
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
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
