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That's pretty awesome! It will be interesting to see if we get a noticeable influx with all the moronic moves reddit is making. Here's hoping!
Wouldn't count on it. I was curious what people saying about the IPO news and checked comments. "Where will we go now?“ comes up quite often and very few people even mention Lemmy, at least in the post I looked at.
And I don't think that's bad, I'd rather like users who want to be here and not getting pushed here.
If not Lemmy, what else? Last summer I looked around and Lemmy seemed to be by far the largest that wasn’t on a single topic (ex, Hacker news)
There are a bunch of alternatives like Tildes and Raddle, but they are tiny in comparison. Lemmy is the place to be if you want a reddit-style platform.
I think the reason Lemmy took off is because it's decentralized and a single person or corporation can't easily enshittify it to make stonks go up before jumping ship with their golden parachute. Tildes being invite only also really killed any chance of really growing imo. It was the same mistake Google+ made. I never really heard of any of the alternatives other than kbin since they didn't have the same voice as lemmy and kbin had in the whole reddit API enshitification and death of 3rd party clients
May I suggest Kbin (or Mbin).
It is compatible to Lemmys posts and voting and has also Microblogging.
Kbin doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere. The repos are dead (one commit in the last two months, written in php which is not promising for new contributors), there’s really only one instance of it, and I don’t know of any communities hosted there. There’s also no app support, which is crucial for me to actually use the platform. The concept is good so I’d love to see it continue, but I also wouldn’t invest anything in the platform at this time.
Kbin is developed by mostly one person, so yes, it progresses quite slowly.
But there is also Mbin with many improvements and much more active development.
I'm fully with you, that an API is still missing and would love to see it implemented in the future.
Even if it never gets any bigger than what we have now, thats fine. Personally, im finding people to be much nicer here.
Agreed. I don't want lemmy to turn into reddit, but we could do with more users for sure. I am guilty of not posting / commenting much.
That’s one change I’m making from my Reddit days. For a community to succeed it has to build, and I’ve already found some cool people!
As reddit refugee the biggest plus of lemmy is the ease in which it feels. Almost like visiting Canada from the States... But the longer you stay the difference are clearer.
Ive had to change my habits, I was a lurker on reddit and realize abunch of lurkers moved over and are just looking for traction ans information. I now receive just about all of the news I was learning from reddit and the last push is engagement.
The other added bonus is commenting here is not commenting on reddit. Ppl are interested in a dialogue even if they disagree with your point. This will be what saves lemmy.
Im finding more people are engaged here. On reddit, often times my messages get no responses. On lemmy, Ill at least get something.
Hi. 👋