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I've been using Lemmy for the last couple days and have quite liked it. I want to hear the community's thoughts on some of the other reddit "competitors".

The only other (obviously non-federated) one I'm familiar with is tildes.net, mostly just because I have had an account on it for the last few years.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

As a webdev I only consider alternatives that implement ActivityPub which is what drawn me to Lemmy. Other parties have come out with Reddit-like but a lot are still closed gardens under unknown people's control. I trust the W3C on this one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There’s also kbin, which seems to be compatible with lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I would argue that for most purposes, kbin IS lemmy. It has 1/10th the native user-count and 1/100th the native comment count according to https://the-federation.info/platform/73 and https://the-federation.info/platform/184. I get the sense that a large part of what people use kbin for is as an alternative UI to access lemmy communities. It seems much further from achieving a critical mass of native communities though.

That's not a knock on kbin, people use it an enjoy it. But I'd contend that to the extent that either kbin or lemmy are "reddit replacements" at all, they act together as a single federated option with multiple UX's rather than two discrete options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tildes is the only other alternative that I know besides lemmy. It's more focused on discussion, as you probably know. Personally, though, I doubt it can scratch my reddit itch. I do enjoy discussions, but I also need my "nonsense stuff" fix like memes. I do like what they're trying to do. I think they're a good complementary site to lemmy if someone is ditching reddit altogether.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If the site is not federated, it's not possible to leave it without also leaving all its content behind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

i saw https://squabbles.io/ on a thread earlier today, and that looks pretty promising as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've also heard about https://raddle.me/, but I've never tried it.

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