cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1276669
Like a lot of others, I’ve been looking at Reddit alternatives recently which is what landed me here at Lemmy.
How do you think Lemmy compares to Reddit? But also, for people who have tried other Reddit alternatives than Lemmy, how do they compare? What has been the pros and cons of each community for you?
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I like Lemmy more than I thought I would but it’s really rough in areas that Reddit’s polished more and it also is, well, pretty quiet. It’s a little hard to really dive into it when so much is clearly missing on even just the people not being there. I certainly miss a lot of subs I’d spend more time on, subs that have miles more subscribers than people who even use Lemmy as a whole. I’m hoping that more people jump over to here but it’s definitely not the same because there is still a void left unfilled. But I’ll live, it certainly reduces how much time I use social media overall since I never was a Twitter user.
Lemmy is the closest thing yet for sure.
The main pros: decentralized*, productive conversations, no karma, open source.
The main con is that “decentralized” is a good idea, but it only works if practiced. Most people have jumped onto lemmy.world instead of spreading out. Minor cons include a lack of decent video embedding, missing some niche communities, and small bugs.
Overall I’ve rediscovered a lot of the internet that I had simply stopped checking because reddit took over my digital life. I read HackerNews again, the NYT, and a lot more. It’s nice.
Today is my first day on lemmy.world. I was on VLemmy but it vanished without a trace yesterday. So I picked the largest instance I could to avoid having to recreate my feed list a third time.
Most people have jumped onto lemmy.world instead of spreading out.
The main reason I chose lemmy.world is because I wanted to set up a community and my account on an instance that seemed less likely to disappear. I suspect that’s the reason for many others as well, though it might end up being a false hope. Who knows…
I jumped onto BeeHaw when I first left Reddit, but found I couldn’t connect to some communities. It turns out that BeeHaw defederated from some Lemmy instances (like Lemmy.world) because they have more open registration. So I left BeeHaw and came to Lemmy.world.
Does this mean that I might need to occasionally interact with someone who doesn’t share similar views as me? Yes, but it also means I’m more free to join different communities that I wanted to join.
“All” as in a lot of them? There’s not many as far as I know unless you’re counting mobile apps for Lemmy. There’s a good range of Lemmy mobile apps already and more coming. But then it’s just different ways of accessing the same content.
If you’re talking about kbin versus Lemmy, I think Lemmy is more feature rich, but kbin has a nicer looking layout. Even so they’re both Fediverse platforms so again it’s just different ways of accessing the same content.
In any case the number of users here on Lemmy/kbin is a tiny fraction of Reddit. They have like half a billion monthly active where Lemmy/kbin has maybe 100k. Though the content is as much better as the difference in user numbers. It’s mostly noise on Reddit like low effort memes, shitposts, astroturfing, bot spam. We don’t have that here…yet. Don’t know how long it will stay that way, but I’ll take it long as I can get it.
Quora - It’s just AskReddit, 24/7. Kinda gets boring after a while if your sole purpose is answering questions all day.
SaidIt - AltRight Central, taken over by the crazy lot to project their zany conspiracist views.
Voat - Dead, but once used to have been harbored by said conspiracists of altright.
Lemmy - Has a lot of potential, still developing.