Yeah, lemmy has become really good lately. It’s generally better than Reddit these days. I tried it a year ago and it was still quiet here, now I see posts with 2000+ upvotes
The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.
As someone who used reddit for 14+ years, this place feels exactly like early Reddit, a place where you actually can converse with anyone and contribute instead of yelling into the void. Realistically we will always have both, but many more will join the verse everytime Reddit has an oopsie.
Narwhal, bacon, midnight, dick butt, le, doggo.
The real question, when we enter ^ this era of Lemmy, how many years of prison is appropriate for the above genre of jokes?
Lmao beans fit that list, we can cringe about it all we want now but at the time we’re building community.
Don’t forget jeans. We’re almost there.
I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.
We’re doing our best!
If you’re in a niche community, don’t be afraid to put some content out there. Niche communities are generally so happy to see any conversation. The amount of criticism/downvoting I’ve seen on topics in slow communities has been very low.
The sheer coverage of every subject on Reddit is crazy. Yesterday I was getting infuriated at a stupid plot in the 3 Body Problem, so I ddged it, and of course I found 3 Reddit threads sharing my frustrations. What a shame it has to get enshitified.
It helps that Reddit along with other big platforms like FB absorbed all the traffic that in the old days would have been distributed into small separate forums. Not good for the ecosystem.
Internet ecosystem is a great term, it was put well in an article someone shared on slrpnk: https://slrpnk.net/post/8711732
Thanks for the link. That’s an interesting community!
Upvoted because “ddged”. Wonderful. 😊
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Good alternative search engine, have to use a bit of traditional search engineering sometimes, but to me that’s a good thing, feature not a bug.
It can’t find everything, think of it as an extra tool in the toolbox. Having selection between search engines is a good thing. Don’t want just one monolithic source of information.
Gotta really hand it to the Lemmy devs, third party devs and server maintainers.
I’m so glad to hear other people with the same opinion! Everywhere I go I see people complaining about the negativity and toxicity here and I’m like… Where? I’ve had nothing but positive interactions. I’m really happy reddit went through the API fiasco because I’m having a better time here than in late stage reddit.
I agree, I only came here in July after they finally followed through with pulling the plug on 3rd party apps. This place has grown a lot in 1 year. Still needs more communities for the smaller hobbies, plus less memes and political content, and it would be perfect. 99% of everyone I talk with here is super nice and helpful as well.
There’s just something about seeing users make posts on another instance from their own and the comments filled with users from different instances that makes me so happy. It makes Lemmy feel more like an actual front page of the Internet that can be used from anyone anywhere.
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Moist is down at the moment, so - in true Reddit fashion - maybe Lemmy just hugged it to death.
It’s so much better! RIP R word
I’ve always liked Kbin’s design and funcionality more than Lemmy, but the latter is more popular and sometimes posts/comments won’t load properly on Kbin, so I’ve stuck with Lemmy for now.
Everyone in this thread is suggesting Mbin, so I might try that. Sounds like it’s a fork of Kbin that actually solved a ton of its federation issues with Lemmy.
and it’s* starting to become
If only k/mbin federated better - I’d be all over it :(
Did you actually try mbin? Because we fixed a huge number of federation issues kbin had/has. Sure a bunch still need to be worked on, but we do our best and improve it with every release
What interface is this? Looks interesting.
im running an mbin instance
What are the differences between Lemmy and Mbin?
Totally different implementations of activitypub servers, for one thing.
Kbin/mbin were also designed to try to support both interfacing with micro blogging (as in Mastodon and a few others) and with Threads (as in Lemmy and a couple others).
It’s pretty good overall, and I started on kbin, but I’ve found myself using Lemmy instead for a while, mostly because of better clients on mobile. And a handful of technical/design issues on kbin that were annoying me (although some have been improved since)
Mbin is a close fork of Kbin.
