or is there another platform that is…
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
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.
eyy thats a good call on the threadiverse bit… lemmy is missing half the content
That’s the distinction I would draw. Mastodon is not a Reddit work-alike.
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.
I couldn’t figure Friendica out. I’ll see myself out.
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
I saw Lemmy on an Instagram meme page, and I haven’t seen any other reddit alternative (unless you count 4chan technically)
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).
Holy shit that’s pretty sweet
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.
Lemmy: The 3.6 Roentgen of social media.
That’s not great but not terrible.
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?
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.
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.
kbin lives on via the community fork mbin! Ernest was great, but he got sick and overwhelmed ): hope he’s doing okay.
Well there’s Dread, the most active subdread has almost 500k subscribers
Is it Onion only?
Yep.
That’s sort of its whole point, yes
I forgot abou that years ago
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.
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.
The most popular Reddit alternative is day drinking and screaming racist abuse at passers by on the street.
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.
lemmy, mbin, piefed all aggregate the same stuff and its all reddit like. people make places to discuss particular things.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
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.
I don’t think lobsters is a direct alternative to Reddit since its main topic is tech-related stuff and Lemmy’s more like general-purposed. Also it’s invite only so I guess hackernews is more appropriate?
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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.
Is there a way to migrate a Lemmy account to it?
You can export your Lemmy preferences and subscriptions, then create new account at piefed and import the Lemmy stuff.
What app do you use for piefed?
Voyager on android, which is kind of beta-ish, but works good enough. And default web UI which I really like on desktop PC. The only feature I miss in Voyager so far is that “aggregated” threads on desktop, which is an awesome feature.
