or is there another platform that is…
Touching grass probably has us beat
Overrated
Most popular, probably, but that doesn’t mean it’s popular. There are some old phpBB forums with more users than all of Lemmy combined.
lemmy, mbin, piefed all aggregate the same stuff and its all reddit like. people make places to discuss particular things.
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.
Is it Onion only?
That’s sort of its whole point, yes
Yep.
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?
I’m here but I’m also still on Fark after 25 years.
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
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…
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
I can send you an invite when they go live this week
Hey sorry, just wondering if it’s still possible to get an invite link to Digg? No worries if not, thanks.
sent it, don’t have anymore for future onlookers
Hey thanks! I appreciate it! So far do they seem responsive to feedback?
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.
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
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.
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?
Subjectively speaking, after switching to Piefed I feel like “the internet is back”.
Engaging conversation, good tools for filtering the front page to your liking, and the audience seems generally speaking more mature. I do expect that to change if the platform grows in size.
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.That does sound quite nice actually
So if you comment there, where will it end up?
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.
I like my instance, which I understand is working on a migration to PieFed eventually.
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.
My guess would be redlib as the most popular. It lets you read Reddit without having to turn off your VPN or log in.
I wouldn’t really consider that an alternative but that is probably more popular than lemmy
The fediverse is your alternative, particularly Lemmy and PieFed. Welcome.
I think digg is poised to come back? I looked but they only have an iOS app for some reason.
I hope I can remember my password.
That would be kinda funny lol
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.
That’s the distinction I would draw. Mastodon is not a Reddit work-alike.
maybe we could also say lemmy+fediverse, like we say GNU+Linux
eyy thats a good call on the threadiverse bit… lemmy is missing half the content
