It's time to admit Lemmy has won the "the biggest reddit alternative" award, why it's time for all of us to consider supporting it (here's why) + reopening r/LemmyMigration
Posted by TheArstaInventor@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 112 comments
Disclaimer: This is kind of a long write-up, but please don't downvote before reading it, put effort into this one:)
It has been a long while now ever since my last write up (and the one following that) but I think this one will be the most important. Ever since Reddit's API mess and the blackout, we have been having a lot of people moving to many alternatives, the major ones being part of the fediverse - Lemmy.
I might have had an impact on the migration during that time especially as I was banned for my initiatives at r/LemmyMigration multiple times just to be unbanned later, and the same issue was repeated on r/KbinMigration unfairly, this became a hot discussion here and this situation really showed what kind of power Reddit admins have over their users thanks to a closed source, centralized platform, leading several users here to make the move to Lemmy, a decentralized and open souce alternative where you don't have a set of admins controlling the whole site and it's users.
Anyways, I'll now come to the point: I think it's time we admit Lemmy is indeed the biggest alternative to Reddit, and has the best chance to really compete with Reddit. I personally moved away from Lemmy to Kbin and advised others a while back despite a ton of my early efforts and initiatives for Lemmy at first, after learning the concerning political views of Lemmy's developers, especially against human rights and so on but ever since then now, I've learned that this is really not an issue when the project is open source, with an open development and as long as instances like lemmygrad is avoided, general instances like lemmy.world (which also happens to be the biggest Lemmy instance) does not have this issue. This was a big misunderstanding for me at the time but that is not my only reason to jump back to Lemmy. Lemmy's developers also released their statement stating that their personal views will not affect the platform itself and other instances like lemmy.world again, is not even run by them.
To add I also made the Reddit's guide to how Kbin works post but....
Kbin is simply full of problems.
With respect to Kbin's hard working developer Ernest, Kbin has a long way to go and i've realized after months of using, it is an alpha product, often has server errors (in-fact kbin is having an error issue just as I am writing this right now, and for this whole day kbin.social has been inaccessible), and the userbase and engagement compared to Lemmy is really really far behind. There are also federation issues between Kbin and Lemmy sometimes. Kbin is also going for the niche of being a more all in one product, right now it has both microblogging and forums, and the users there like to have a combination of both which is great, but again Reddit users on the other hand are dedicated forum users and so far have seem to prefer Lemmy much more.
Lemmy is also in general, the most stable and mature of the Reddit alternatives, this is very important and I think Lemmy has also at this point gone through several growing pains, today it's stable more than ever.
Lemmy now has OVER 14 third party APPS!! The main issue where everything started, how Reddit API changes affected third party developers negatively.... Lemmy has simply done the best job providing home beyond Reddit to the third party ex-reddit ecosystem so far.
This post is not asking you all to say "No" to all the other alternatives, but I would also like to say, at this point there is no use of going to another alternative, spreading ourselves spread too thin with different alternatives especially not part of the fediverse just to deal with lack of engagement at the end and return to Reddit, this cycle will always bring you back here but if we support Lemmy and the fediverse, this will actually give all of us a chance to genuinely leave Reddit for good, while also avoiding the same fundemental problem of this platform in the future.
Reopening r/LemmyMigration
I'll be reopening the community which was originally closed to support r/KbinMigration, but this time instead, both communities will remain open and nobody will be restricted to one over the other.
I will also be creating useful resources to help people migrate and bring back the migration train, things have slowed down a bit but let us pick up the pace.
Good-Throwaway@reddit
How do you sign up on Lemmy?
Refflet@reddit
[ Removed by Reddit ]
threelonmusketeers@reddit
Thanks, this is really helpful!
;)
Refflet@reddit
Lol reddit doesn't like when you go somewhere else as otherwise they can't sell your data and copyrighted content to Google without paying you a cent.
Lemm ee is a good place to try.
Refflet@reddit
Lmfao apparently posting links to lemmy instances gets removed....
Toothless_NEO@reddit
Important note: instance blocking does not work the way that people think that it does. From Join-Lemmy's page:
The feature, while useful for instances with problematic communities that may show up in the feed, does not help with or combat spam and bad behavior from users of instances like hexbear or Lemmygrad, or indeed any malicious instances out there that haven't been defederated yet.
This feature should not be marketed as an alternative or replacement to defederation for this very reason.
Refflet@reddit
This is true, but in practice it isn't as big of a problem, because the most popular instances where most active communities are have already defederated from them - so the only remaining issue is actually seeing the threads on the problem instances in your feed.
Certainly spam requires defederation, and a bit of defederation was needed to limit hexbear and lemmygrad, but I'm happy that lemm.ee didn't such that I can visit those places if I want to roll around in the mud.
The bigger issue is that many hexbear users moonlight on .ml to get around defederation and annoy other users. .ml has gone downhill since then. There's not much that can be done about that.
MystikIncarnate@reddit
There's also local instances. I'm on the Canadian one, since I live in Canada; it's just lemmy.ca. I won't make it a link since I don't want to get automodded.
There's quite a few regional ones, I also think there's a join lemmy website that will help you find an instance. Very briefly, lemmy is decentralized (federated) where each instance has it's own communities, like "memes (at) lemmy.world" where each instance can have it's own "memes" community if they wish, and the information from each community is sync'd to other servers, though that instance "owns" the community, and becomes the root of all information for the communities on it. The information can exist elsewhere, but is always on the root. This is the very basic overview of federation.
Federation also allows individuals from other instances permission to comment, post to, and use communities. As long as you're a member of an instance that's federated to the "root" community, then you have permission to see, post and interact with the contents of that community (like reddit, each community also has moderation, so that is also a factor).
In the end which lemmy site you connect to isn't super important, as long as it's federated with the other lemmy instances. Some people have taken to running their own self-hosted lemmy instances, and just federating their access to the rest of lemmy - which is an option if you wish.
Krasauskas@reddit
https://lemmy.cafe/signup
Patch86UK@reddit
Pick any instance you like (any of the big ones is fine if you don't have a reason to pick a different one) and sign up just like you would for any website. Voila.
SupraMario@reddit
Lemmy + Boost = old reddit. It's got it's flaws, but it feels like how reddit was 10+ years ago.
Sorry_Blackberry_RIP@reddit
That's exactly how I use Lemmy, and it nice.
Reddit mods are out of control and Lemmy just feels like a breath of fresh air. So refreshing.
DazedLogic@reddit
I know, right!? R/cats came up on my feed one time and some lady was very freaking out about her cat escaping her yard and maybe getting run over. She said she spent all her extra money on things to keep cats inside a yard so they couldn't escape and she couldn't think of any other options. All I said was, and this is a direct quote, "Keep her inside the house." (The cat is a female.) Then 20 minutes later some mod permanently banned me for my "American centric views". That kind of pissed me off so I appealed the ban. I was like, the lady said she had no more money to spend on things and she was freaking out about her cat so the simplest, safest and cheapest thing to do was keep the cat inside the house.
The ban was lifted and the mod told me to "be more civil", "watch my phrasing" and be more thoughtful of other people's feelings or something like that. Seriously!? I got banned because the mod didn't like what I said or how I said it and I'm the one that needs to open minded? WTF?!
I tried to report the mod but there's not really anyway to do that where it actually matters. They just get to keep on being fascist dictators of their own little kingdoms with basically no oversight.
SupraMario@reddit
Lemmy is way more oriented right now at least towards the smaller communities, which is nice. Feels like I'm talking to people again and not some potential bot.
1371113@reddit
It’s nice to see Superbowl back on the front page where it belongs.
rglullis@reddit
https://nfl.community is completely inactive and patiently waiting for you...
Stiltzkinn@reddit
Lemmy + Voyager is good combo as well.
laurapill@reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/s/utqylUspEj
MigrateOutOfReddit@reddit
Do not register in either lemmy world or lemmy ml, choose another instance.
Go to sh.itjust.works if you're in the Americas, or sopuli.xyz in Eurasia. lemmy.world is overburdened, and at least two of the lemmy ml admins are notorious pieces of shit, Arthur Besse and Muad Dibber = Dessalines.
yogthos@reddit
if you're a nazi then follow the advice in the parent comment
cecilkorik@reddit
For what it's worth I support Lemmy, but I support Kbin too. They're not enemies and the beauty of the fediverse is that they don't need to be. They can interoperate while maintaining their own flavor and unique features. There is no more need for someone reaching critical mass followed by all competition suffocating and dying, every competitor is welcome and valued and can participate regardless of size or popularity. This is the way forward. I wish Kbin all the success, while continuing to use Lemmy.
Sine_Fine_Belli@reddit
Same here well said
westwoo@reddit
Given how the main Kbin developer is governing the project and how he reacted to other developers forking it and making Mbin because he wasn't merging their changes, I'd say Kbin was probably developed with some degree of hostility towards Lemmy. Hence lower prioritization of syncing bugs and entirely new names for the same things without any reason which needlessly overcomplicates fediverse
TheArstaInventor@reddit (OP)
I don't wish otherwise for Kbin either, just stated the current state of Kbin and why it isn't ready for prime yet while Lemmy is certainly in a much better state.
awdrifter@reddit
Nah, Gab is the way to go. Lemmy needs you to answer 6 questions then have people manually approve registration. This level of gatekeeping would never scale.
IRunWithVampires@reddit
I need to get back to Lemmy. I really like this and Discuit. They’re the best we got I think.
bot_exe@reddit
Lol, the migration failed and lemmy sucks
kratoz29@reddit
What the heck are you even doing here?
Did you support the developers to keep their apps here on Reddit at least?
I honestly don't see a reason for you to be here if you think everything sucks but Reddit lol, I mean there is no way that you watched this thread in r/all, you are subbed here.
Toothless_NEO@reddit
They're clearly trolls, I have very little doubts that they randomly stumbled across this and are actively subscribed here for the sole purpose of talking shit about Reddit alternatives.
kratoz29@reddit
Yeah I agree, I also didn't notice its username lol.
RuneArmorTrimmer@reddit
For what’s its worth Reddit’s weird algorithm recommended this post to me and I know nothing about this place. I wish you all the best with your migration.
kratoz29@reddit
lol for real? What are you using to browse Reddit?
I know for sure that wouldn't happen with Sync for Reddit.
TheArstaInventor@reddit (OP)
Ironic.
Naugrith@reddit
Agreed. I had high hopes for the migration snd subbed here at the time. But it soon became clear it was all nonsense. There are no reddit alternatives and everyone here is high on copium.
1-760-706-7425@reddit
Glad to see others see it.
This “the alternatives are great” gaslighting stuff has got to stop. We’ve all tried it and we’re all still here, for good reason. Reddit sucks but the fediverse sucks even more.
bluegoon@reddit
Lemmy doesn't support Trump, Reddit is king. Sorry.
winterwulf@reddit
There are trumpist lemmy servers
Toothless_NEO@reddit
There are? I thought exploding-heads closed down, specifically because they were widely defederated, even by the most anti-defederation instances.
Toothless_NEO@reddit
There are? I thought exploding-heads closed down, specifically because they were widely defederated, even by the most anti-defederation instances.
bender2005@reddit
Go to truth social and never come back please. Thanks.
bluegoon@reddit
Free speech, dumb fuck. Go shit up Lemmy. Reddit is based and redpilled.
Ayesuku@reddit
Trumper incels and eagerly demonstrating a fundamental lack of understanding of the 1st Amendment.
Name a more iconic duo.
bluegoon@reddit
You're incapable of being impartial, you're all just that stupid, which is why your boring one-dimensional hug boxes never take off and will never compete against Reddit and X.
I don't give a shit about Trump or your country's politics.
bluegoon@reddit
Not American and don't care about Trump or your politics, just brought it up to show how stupid you snowflake morons are.
enomele@reddit
Found the incel
bender2005@reddit
Who let you out of your moms basement?
Die4Ever@reddit
We also already have r/Lemmy
Toothless_NEO@reddit
That is true although their moderator is very inactive and has regularly been allowing troll posts to slip through. It's important for a community to be well moderated otherwise it's of little use to most people.
NobsiTheUnitato@reddit
The amount of Apps doesn't help if all content is a constant barrage of political propaganda that highschoolers fall for.
Lemmy only has Technerds, absolute leftwing nuts that jerk eachother off for wanting free shit, rightwing nuts that jerk eachother off for wanting to kill minorities and dumb "DAE young people dumb?" facebook trash.
With one exception: The mods on lemmy are children
galloog1@reddit
Just had all of my posts nuked by mods from every community there because someone doesn't like an opposing political opinion. (A military assessment of the Gaza conflict) If that is their version of free speech, I don't want it. I really want a reddit alternative though. Not federated and unstable but something a little less tanky.
Honestly, I wish we had something close to slashdot for non-tech related things.
NobsiTheUnitato@reddit
Didn't ask
galloog1@reddit
I didn't answer. Why are you in a forum if you do not expect a conversation? Just put out a newsletter if all you want to do is preach.
NobsiTheUnitato@reddit
Ok snowflake
galloog1@reddit
Didn't ask
WzrdsTongueMyDanish@reddit
What about Tildes?
briangutaccess@reddit
Look at my recent comments. All my comments in your modcoord thread https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/18xo06y/here_is_why_i_am_disappointed_with_the_organized/ are censored, and the mods don't respond when I asked why. Sketchy as hell that all the approved comments are anti-fediverse.
TheArstaInventor@reddit (OP)
Wow, would you mind making a post about this here, people should know about this…
is_it_controversial@reddit
I think we all can agree Reddit sucks lately. Sad but true. Ok, so, I went to Lemmy, and IT SUCKS EVEN MORE.
Or maybe I'm just getting old.
westwoo@reddit
Define "sucks"?
Beliriel@reddit
Similar to when the fatpeoplehate debacle went down, the exodus is comprised mainly of weirdos, extremists and tech nerds. All of which are not exactly the kind of people you want on your platform at least not the kind, that you can monetize and attract mainstream pull. The Lemmy sphere is comprised to 50% of shitty low effort memes, 30% tech stuff and 20% lowlife bullshittery like right wing propaganda, leftwing propaganda and porn.
westwoo@reddit
But... that's just early reddit. If someone thinks Reddit sucks lately they would presumably love this
And name hogging doesn't really make sense since you can make another one on another instance. If people want to visit that worldnews and not your world news, then that's how it is, regardless what you think of the mod
Beliriel@reddit
Yeah exactly. That's how it is: shitty. So I left lemmy. I don't see why I should support it any further. The cool communities that closed down on reddit either died or went to discord, not to lemmy.
westwoo@reddit
That's not shitty, that's just closer to early reddit and not latest modern reddit with normie audience and mods generally reflecting American mainstream
uaadda@reddit
nah, early reddit (I started lurking in ca. 2009, this account is 12 years old already) was a ton of fun with incredibly good jokes in the comment sections. It had it's cringe "when does the narwhal bacon?" - "spotted a redditor in the wild!", some of it even survived, e.g. "thank you good sir" or "you, sir" and all that fedora-tipping lingo. But it still had some randomness, some wild moments, some crazy shit, some hilarious shit, some true WTF on r/WTF and kind moments. A last haven of early-internet vibes minus the viruses and CP.
Now it's all just sooooooo predictably bland. Some examples:
Drug seizure of n tons: top comment will be "it's great that 0.8n got brought to the police station" followed by "great that 0.5 n got brought as evidence to the trial" blablablabla
climate news "hottest period of time": top comment "...so far!" LOLOLOLOLOL GOOD ONE
Remotely touching Elon: comments are literally anything bad about him, how he's a bad engineer, didn't co-found Tesla, and other off-topic comments, but nothing about the actualy topic.
anything phone related: "I want headphone jack and swappable battery and SD card and 108238Hz screen but I don't care about the camera, why is the industry not listening?!" followed by "THIS EXACTLY" blablabla not realizing that this is the opposite of what 99% of the consumers want. Make your own phone without a camera so you don't realise that you cannot capture anything beautiful, no matter if you use the front or rear-facing camera.
any stunt / activity that is remotely dangerous but a ton of fun: oh my god how stupid is this person / how dare they risking their lives / but really saying "how dare they having fun while I can't get my fat neckbeard out the door for the fear of the outdoors".
Nevermind the hilarious flip-flopping hivemind "intellectuals" that can both love and hate dictator-like behaviour, depending on whether or not it fits their worldview.
Honorable mention the mask-militants who somehow think they can tell everyone that they should always wear a mask but get triggered to oblivion it if someone says "you know it's not mandatory anymore?". (Looking at you, r/de and r/austria)
Reddit is so fucking dumb these days, nevermind the totaly bottomless shitshows of the default subs. "bUt YoU aRe HeRe" - yeah I stumbled across this thread on feddit, and I agree with the top commenter here, it's even dumber than reddit because the neckbeard-factor got cranked to 11 over there for sure (you can copy-paste above "top comments" to feddit and that's very telling).
westwoo@reddit
But isn't this how any social group would look to an outsider? You see their tropes as cringe, they use those tropes and see beyond them. It's kinda like, all anime looks the same to many people but to anime nerds it's all different. For regular people metal sounds the same but metal heads distinguish dozens of genres. Someone might say that it's all just repetitive guitar and drum mashing and screaming, and technically that would be true, but also would mean that they simply don't understand it
People haven't changed. People are still people and are still expressing themselves. The blandness is in your head as you interact with them since you aren't them and they don't satisfy you. This is the sort of thing that creates permanently bitter geezers that scream at kids to get off their lawn - the world around them changed but they stopped changing
uaadda@reddit
reddit is not a social group to begin with. And no, you're blending repeatability in comments with diversity of subreddits. Yes, there are many subs and I still like to read some of them, but the "general" reddit, as far as big subs go, is dominated by a very boring subset of people, making the overall reddit experience very boring at this point. The scary thing is that the boredom spreads more and more into what used to be "diverse" subs to the point where it's like a duty free at any airport in the world: Swiss Chocolate and the same old selection of booze.
soooo I need to be stoked about reading the exact same comments to the same topic time and time again to not yell at kids on my lawn? Also: ok sure.
okay going through your post history I can see that you are included in my above rant :D
westwoo@reddit
Well, suit yourself
FuckFashMods@reddit
These problems are exactly what made Reddit great before it went downhill
Echoes-in-May@reddit
I'd much rather be on a platform where the problem lies withs its user rather than its management. User content can be moderated, blocked or changed. Bad management and development however, cannot.
briangutaccess@reddit
It's not as bad as you say. People just need to encourage more niche reddit subs to move over.
PM_ME_an_unicorn@reddit
Please be the change you want to see, if everyone complaining about Lemmy lack of content would post twice a week, it'd be a lot of content and more diversity.
I don't see that much of what you describe, I mean yes there is, but not on the community I follow, but yes the world news community is worse than the reddit one, and there is some low effort repost /c.
The main issue is more the lack of new and original content rather than reposts or low effort
Beliriel@reddit
I tried. Made a community, started posting, made comments and even ran my own instance. Was not worth it.
I don't want to post just so there is post. I ran out of things to say and contribute and I also ran out of patience with lemmy.
TheArstaInventor@reddit (OP)
Then join Lemmy and make it better, saying it is worse and falling back to Reddit is actually wrong in my opinion.
So far lemmy.world has been a nice place for me personally, and even if you don't like a certain community or instance, there are always choices and options, and everything is open source and federated.
As more and more people from Reddit join, the choices will only get better and it can't be worse than Reddit, especially when it has 2 great things reddit doesn't = open source and decentralization fundementally.
jdbolick@reddit
To me at least, Lemmy isn't promising enough for it to be worth my time, and brushing away the extreme tankie origins because it's federated doesn't sit right. If Lemmy satisfies your needs, that's great, but I can't see it ever becoming what I would want to use.
I agree with you about Kbin being disappointing, which is a shame because that's the one I had high hopes for, but the real Reddit replacement is probably something we're not even discussing yet. When that something appears, people will know it, and that transition will happen quickly.
AssassinAragorn@reddit
It's very easy to brush away the tankie origins. One of the largest instances (if not the largest) doesn't put up with tankie bullshit. It uses the same architecture, but the userbase and mods will downvote and remove tankie bullshit. It's very much so not welcome, and we often tell them to go back to .ml. It's the .world instance, if you're interested.
TheArstaInventor@reddit (OP)
What would you like to see in "that" reddit replacement? This exact waiting for a "that" replacement is going to keep us here, it is open source, can even be forked and everything is decentralized, what else do we need in-terms of fundemental better and safe design in-terms of what we should have in a platform opposed to Reddit's centralized and closed source design which is one of the major reasons to many of the issues on this platform today?
Yes, the platform has tankie origins, but why does that matter? The whole point of federation and open source is that shouldn't matter.
kratoz29@reddit
I mean, you said it, not me.
Lemmy is perfect right now for geeks/tech people (not surprising as we are one of the first ones on land on new platforms), if it thrives more (which hasn't slow down that much since the APIcalypse) people will come and more content will be shared, for now it is fine for me as a Reddit replacement for those fields.
DouglasJFalcon@reddit
I've seen many cases of older people on Lemmy though. I think it comes down to what you expect. If you want the feeling or earlier reddit and forums I think it has a promising future.
OpenStars@reddit
It helps to block communities that you do not like. It is super easy, barely an inconvenience, once you learn how (2 clicks, except on KBIN then it's scroll all the way to the bottom, then back up, then find the button, then click, then go back, but it's still there, but also it won't be later...; anyway on LEMMY it is easy).
There are a ton of shitposts on Lemmy. I am in heaven there, b/c I get to choose the flavors of shit that I like vs. not:-P.
These days, everywhere on Reddit is the same (maybe b/c they are controlled by the same mods?).
Asyncrosaurus@reddit
Social media in general just kinda sucks more than ever, and we've all only just started noticing. Pretty much since every nation state released it could use it to perform cheap disinformation campaigns and destabilize politics and economies on a scale never before seen
Nothing has ever recreated the magic of that old vBulletin forum I was on, but that's probably because I was 15.
cecilkorik@reddit
There is something to the nostalgia theory, but there's also some truth to it I think. Topics and discussions and communities were a lot more discoverable and accessible before they grew into an absolute firehose of the immediate and continuous thoughts and consciousness of almost every human on the planet. It's too much for search engines to keep up with, it's too much for moderation to keep up with, it's too much for recommendation algorithms to keep up with (and due to corruption by advertising they don't seem to have any real interest in actually doing so anyway) it remains to be seen whether even "AI" learning models can keep up with it.
The discovery problem is a really interesting one that gets very philosophical very quickly the deeper you look into it. What kind of information should people be exposed to? What happens when what we want to see conflicts with what is good for us or even what is true? What's the right amount to challenge someone's point of view, and who decides what that is? Do people have a right to watch garbage content non-stop if that's what they like? Do we even have the right to tell them we think what they're watching is garbage? What about when it starts affecting how they vote? Is it fair to expect people to be educated and informed? To be clear, I'm not saying the answers to any of these things are yes or no, I'm saying the answer, and where each of those answers lead, is fascinating.
lbc1358@reddit
And here you are posting this on Reddit.
MystikIncarnate@reddit
oh no! informing reddit users in an appropriate subreddit of reddit alternatives about a reddit alternative! What a moronic thing to do!
/s... because, obviously.
Sorry_Blackberry_RIP@reddit
So if you were a gamer you would only play one game? Use your head or comment in good faith... jeez.
lbc1358@reddit
You’re missing the point. Nothing is replacing Reddit, that’s the reality. Everything else sucks or has a shitty user base.
Sorry_Blackberry_RIP@reddit
Good for I hope nothing replaces Reddit, it will then also turn to shit. Keep Lemmy engaging and leave most of Reddit on Reddit.
elkaki123@reddit
Nothing replaces it right now, but people try. Because everywhere sucks people are trying to create an alternative, reddit wasn't the default forum 10 years ago and there is no reason to think it's reign will be perpetual
What's up with the attitude of "why even try", look at the name of the sub you are commenting on...
Sorry_Blackberry_RIP@reddit
Good for I hope nothing replaces Reddit, it will then also turn to shit. Keep Lemmy engaging and leave most of Reddit on Reddit.
ChatDumpster@reddit
I have been impressed with BlahBee.com so far. They’ve been pushing daily updates and improvements to make it a cool community and soon to be iOS app (or so they say). Kinda excited to see what direction they take it.
TheConquistaa@reddit
I need to log in to it. Clearly not a Reddit alternative in this regard.
ChatDumpster@reddit
Yeah doesn’t hit the reddit itch. More of X
MystikIncarnate@reddit
looks like mastedon.
mbirth@reddit
Here's a profile:
https://blahbee.com/BlahBee
Looks like a Twitter/X/BlueSky clone to me. And we already have Mastodon for that.
TheConquistaa@reddit
Oh. Right. Clearly not something I 'd personally use :)
Puzzleheaded-Eye8414@reddit
Not reading all that. Reddit won lol!
Cool_Ranch_Dodrio@reddit
Lemmy is repellent to the reading-averse. Sounds like a feature.
SoleInvictus@reddit
Imagine feeling that four paragraphs is too much text. Tiktok might be more your thing.
enomele@reddit
Congrats I guess. Why are you here then? Just another reason Reddit is trash.
Devi1s-Advocate@reddit
I tried lemmy when reddit wasnt working (summer last year), I found it to have all the same problems as reddit. Shitty mods for the most part, but also all the chronic political bs post and bot posts, so why bother?
Refflet@reddit
Some mods are shit in the tankie subs, but most are fine. Bots can be hidden in settings - you just have to untick "show bots".
kratoz29@reddit
For me Lemmy replaced Reddit 90% of the time the day Sync for Reddit turned Sync for Lemmy.... Third party apps matter mate.
Patch86UK@reddit
Yep. I use both Lemmy and Reddit. I use them both on Boost. I can flick seamlessly between the two apps on my phone and check both in no time.
I really enjoy the vibes over at a Lemmy, but the content is still less varied than Reddit. Both is good. Maybe one day Lemmy will replace Reddit entirely for me, but in the meantime I'm happy.
kratoz29@reddit
Same setup but with Sync 👋🏻
Yeah, it is gonna take time and it needs to face a lot of challenges from now on (more when companies such as Meta want to put their nose in the Fediverse, I can see other companies wanting a piece of the cake too), many people fail to realize that you can't build a proper Reddit alternative in a couple months... It is going to take time bruh.... You can join in now, or later or never, but it will definitely pick up to be more diverse for the whole Internet, before the APIcalypse it was truly a wasteland, now it works for tech and news, and some videogames too, as I mentioned before.
DefectiveLP@reddit
Revanced has a patch for sync
kratoz29@reddit
I know, and I have been using it, but I still waste more time with Sync for Lemmy, if it wasn't for the patch I wouldn't be typing here right now.
DouglasJFalcon@reddit
I've never been able to get this to work unfortunately. I'd love for the rare times google takes me to reddit for it to be a pleasant experience.
vAPIdTygr@reddit
In the last two weeks, I ended up leaving and switching back to Reddit. One of my favorite things to read is upcoming technology but over there, it was a constant daily delivery of Elon spam.
Then it was the anti-Reddit propaganda and extreme political bias. Every topic I read, commenters found a way to turn the conversation political.
I just had enough and I was all-in too.
textuist@reddit
more like reddit clone
Efficient_Star_1336@reddit
Honestly, there's a reason hype has died down. The site has all the same problems as other alternatives.
after the initial hype, it's only as big as a reasonably large individual subreddit.
Same content problem as all the others: roughly half of the posts are politics of a uniform orientation, and the other half are reposted facebook memes.
Reddit's killer app is the presence of a sizable community for every little niche thing, and that's not there.
Competition: Sure, it's federated in theory, but the block-happy, drama-centric culture means that, if an alternative were to pop up with the userbase of 2012 Reddit (or even 2018 Reddit), it'd get defederated almost immediately.
oh-bee@reddit
The tankie FUD was such an effective campaign.
rglullis@reddit
I'm glad to see you are taking a more pragmatic attitude about this. Lemmy is (very) far from perfect, but it is the best we have right now to create some momentum and to start bringing some people out of it.
TheArstaInventor@reddit (OP)
Agreed. I have to make it clear Lemmy still has a long to way to go, especially against Reddit itself again, but my point is that among the alternatives, it is certainly our best bet.