Edit of my old post about lemmy and my improved take on Reddit alternatives.

Posted by AdvancedHard@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 7 comments

Previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/s/3GL9cQ3up0

I posted here about how Lemmy developers are trying to control the masses and they are not using their project in a good way.

While I still believe that to some degree, I believe that Lemmy project could improve away from it's original developers, slowly but surely.

Users could block by default the bad 3 instances and work out their way in the ecosystem and when any bad lemmy change get introduced to the code they can fork it away and continue in a better way.

The Twitter situation has opened my eyes to the possibility that Reddit can die with thousand cuts instead of one blow away, there could be 10 alternatives that all work to replace Reddit and all of them could be used in parallel with each other to replace that big site.

I currently use Lemmy, Discuit, Telegram channels and Hacker News to replace my reddit usage and I had been able to replace at least about 40% of my use of Reddit and will continue to work on replacing more of my Reddit needs.

Lemmy has a ton of problems, but no software is perfect and anything could be improved as long as it'scstill actively developed.

We can't sit around and criticize other alternatives while we are currently using a sinking social media service, we need to leave it first then we can criticize alternatives and discuss about the best of them later.

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BlazeAlt@reddit

https://fedia.io/ and https://piefed.social/ have different developers and are still compatible.

Lemmy is not the only Reddit clone in the Fediverse

PuddingFeeling907@reddit

Lemmy is an upgrade not a clone of reddit.

Indeed

LondonPilot@reddit

What percentage of users do you think are capable (in terms of both skill and time available) to fork and fix issues with Lemmy?

And how do you think Lemmy can attract those people who can’t, or won’t, do that?

I guess it would take a concerted effort from a large group of people to convince the masses that Lemmy is in good hands - whether those hands be those of the original devs or anyone who chooses to fork it. It would need not just a developer, but a team of developers with a good PR mechanism behind them.

And this is before all the usual objections about Lemmy being too complicated to replace Reddit.

I think, from a technical point of view, what you say is correct. I also think that the part from where we are now to where your vision is going to take us is a long one.

LibertyLizard@reddit

I don’t think there’s really a need for a fork currently. The devs have their fiefdom on Lemmy.ml but they don’t exert any real influence outside of it. This situation is acceptable for the time being. The only real issue I have is that the join-Lemmy.org description of their instance doesn’t mention their ideology.

I’m actually becoming more concerned with the dominance of Lemmy.world. Even though their viewpoints are less harmful and there’s a better governance structure it’s still far from perfect and almost all of the largest communities are now there. Users should join other instances and build communities there to reduce the dominance of that one instance in the network.

Fuck_Up_Cunts@reddit

Why don't you just use mbin?

cecilkorik@reddit

Yep, Lemmy is not the solved puzzle -- but it is one piece of a puzzle. You'll need other pieces. All your content shouldn't come from one place anyway, as convenient as that is, monopolies are bad and monopolies on information are worse.