is Lemmy the most popular 'Reddit Alternative'?

[abraxas@feddit.uk]

or is there another platform that is..

[brett@feddit.org]

Atleast of which i know of and its good enough i guess. Its not perfect but its all i got and its not horrible so i'll take it.

[rentlar@lemmy.ca]

Yes.

Survey n=1

[jqubed@lemmy.world]

Along with the compatible platforms like PieFed, Mbin, Friendica, nodeBB, etc., this seems to be the biggest general-purpose with communities

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

Lemmy: The 3.6 Roentgen of social media.

[originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com]

the fediverse is the most popular reddit alternative.

the individual platforms, like lemmy, are a part of an ecosystem.

https://fedidb.com/

[reverendender@sh.itjust.works]

I couldn’t figure Friendica out. I’ll see myself out.

[magpie@fedia.io]

I think digg is poised to come back? I looked but they only have an iOS app for some reason.

[libertylizard@slrpnk.net]

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.

[hubertmanne@piefed.social]

lemmy, mbin, piefed all aggregate the same stuff and its all reddit like. people make places to discuss particular things.

[mesamunefire@piefed.social]

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.

[justiceforporygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

That would be kinda funny lol

[fartswithanaccent@fedia.io]

I like Mbin but Lemmy is probably more popular.

[lennybird@lemmy.world]

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.

[lennybird@lemmy.world]

I confess, I've been cautiously optimistic about the new old Digg. What's BS about it in your view?

[sik0fewl@lemmy.ca]

I hope I can remember my password.

[libertylizard@slrpnk.net]

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.

[nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world]

Well there's Dread, the most active subdread has almost 500k subscribers

[_netnomad@fedia.io]

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

[medicpigbabysaver@lemmy.world]

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.