Find it hilarious that the article itself didn't utilise this, what a missed opportunity!
Good point, I do wonder what % of userbase are in support of these protest and what % don't care? Seems like ~100k has joined these fediverse alternatives out of reddit's 50,000,000 daily active users 0.2% if my tired maths hasn't failed me.
Not that I want the same userbase as reddit, far from it...
My 50pence is that what reddit has fucked up is their monopoly on where these communities reside.
I tried searching for top 10 eyelash extension brands for dogs on lemmy and it didn't find anytthing pfft
reddit also had that a bunch of places, for example /r/gaming /r/games /r/truegaming etc. etc.
I feel as others had suggested that client side multi~~reddits~~ communities would be ideal so you could set up what groups you like to peruse yourself.
I read this the other day and thought it could be a cool idea: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-social-media-distrust-buttons-misinformation.html
reddit also had that a bunch of places, for example /r/gaming /r/games /r/truegaming.
I think a lot of people (myself included) were put off voat due the right wing politics and seemingly toxic nature of the site.
With regards to Lemmy - I'm not a communist by any stretch of the imagination but I'm definitely more left leaning and liberal, and the community aspect here is decent so far.
I originally downloaded potplayer because my VLC had this weird issue where non of the UI would show, only the video stream and I couldn't fix it with reinstalls etc. etc.
I absolutely love it, and I recently been using it for listening to audio as well and it does a tidy job at that too. I use rekordbox for formating and organising my music, potplayer for listening to it now and poweramp on my phone.
Just a bonus - I use syncthing to automatically keep my phone music collection always updated with my latest tracks.
Here's some meta lemmy community lists that may be useful: https://lemmyverse.net/communities https://browse.feddit.de/
Currently I'm using mastodon, tildes and lemmy to replace reddit. Jumping between them gives a natural break which I've found I've been utilising to do productive things / other non-scrolly hobbies more, I'm loving that fact.
PS if anyone wants an invite for tildes PM me, I have 3 left.
I wouldn't go as far to say it's completely different software, but the api is different to lemmy.