I mean I’m new here and i can’t see a lot of stuff like on reddit
Reddit had many years of growth. Lemmy is more like what Reddit started as.
It’s one of the better Reddit alternatives.
That’s an important thing to remember: Reddit was an empty web site when Digg started to piss its users off. I don’t post a lot, but I sure do have fun commenting on random threads.
Trade off.
Less nichey and less specific, but more community, you run into the same people multiple places.
What are you looking for?
to be honest I’m looking for communities like nosleep etc. Maybe they exist because I didn’t figure out how it works yet
Ooh, I’d love something like this too. There’s a creepypasta community but it doesn’t have frequent posts unfortunately.
Do you use anything else than lemmy and Reddit?
Lemmy is the most active reddit alternative that I’m aware of.
there are dozens of us.
No, not currently. I’ve pretty much been getting by with Lemmy and substituting with Reddit where needed. Believe it or not, Lemmy has grown a lot within the past year or two. I think it will eventually get to a decent spot but that may take a while longer.
Yeah, that would be great. Unfortunately I havent found one yet, and I’m no writer.
I swear I saw one in the !newcommunities@lemmy.world or !communitypromo@lemmy.ca somewhat recently but I could be misremembering
Lemmy is really the best alternative ive found, it reminds me of reddit when it was new.
I mean I’m new here
You have already become part of the solution!
you gotta subscribe to a LOT of communities to get a somewhat active feed
I just browse all communities, and block the ones I don’t want to see.
I do reverse subscription: I browse by “new” and block what I don’t want. Best of both worlds.
On many instances too. You’ll have to get to know what their niches and userbase is like
As nobody else mentioned it there is https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities across instances.
I’m aware how finicky it sometimes is to subscribe to new communities on other instances. The fediverse (Lemmy+PieFed+Mastodon+everything else) has some technical quirks but for me its a small price to pay for an unbuyable platform.
The obvious problem is that niche comms are not active. I feel like this comes from people expecting or even emulating the same experience as on reddit. But before we even create new niche comms. We should use the more broader ones even if the more broader one is casualconversation or something generic like that. Even some half dead forums feel alive cause they have like only 4 different places to post. And is also how reddit started but people are forcing it to be like it is right now.
And to answer your question no not that I’m aware of :)
There is https://lobste.rs/ which seems to be working well mostly because its invite only. Truth be told Lemmy will eventually also have to close registration and have an forced application form. If we want to keep it as human as it is right now. Don’t think there is any other way of dealing with bots that are eventually going to hit us.
There is also https://tildes.net/ which is less active but more moderated. They also have only broader comms because its more opinionated.
But they all do not federate which is in my eyes a deal breaker. The mods are probably alright but having the option to move instance while keeping most connections and communities only changing the server owners that control what you see is a game changer for me. It even made me post way more than I ever did on reddit because I feel like its more sustainable. You feel like you are part of the network more than on any other platform, because nobody really owns anything. That is what makes this place so special :)
SACRILEDGE
This is the best Reddit alternative. But we all hate Reddit here. Nothing is going to have as much content as Reddit, but it’s also a shithole run by shitheads, sooooooo…welcome to Lemmy.
Yes, chocolate for example.
Yeah, Piefed.
*Pylova because PieFed is
shitReminder that lib means very different things depending on which part of the world you’re in
Thanks for helping promote it
democracy and taxes
Liberal democracy is a vile anti-democratic institution (and I don’t necessarily even think that direct democracy is the best or only method of horizontal, anti-authoritarian decision making without extra information; i.e. upholding democracy as the be-all end-all of “all power to all the people” is itself a lack of imagination). Almost every imperialist power today is a liberal-democratic state. Liberal democracy is a resounding success at what it is designed to do, which is oppress the proletariat and entrench capitalist hegemony while giving the superficial appearance of proletarian representation to gullible liberals.
And no actually, proletarians should not be paying a single goddamn fucking penny to capitalists or their demonic governments as long as they use our money to destroy us, doom our ecology, and just barely maintain the social services or infrastructure statists claim that these institutions are supposed to provide, which incidentally, half the bourgeoisie doesn’t even want their governments to even give the workers enough crumbs off the table to buy proletarians’ compliance!
Something you Tankies fail to realize is that your rabid and biggoted craziness actually pushes people further towards liberalism.
It’s hilarious watching Autocratists and Authoritarianists lecture others about living in subservience.
And when have I ever supported authoritarian projects or autocracy? You just don’t like being called out as the liberal you are.
If there were something more active than the fediverse (lemmy, piefed, mbin) you would have heard of it already.
There is piefed. I am even using it to see your post and write this comment
Its not something that helps with your problem since the 2 platforms share the same feed
The amount of content on here is less plentiful, so browsing all and blocking the communities you don’t like has been how I curated my feed. If a community doesn’t exist you can always make one (easier said than done I know).
im not sure about lemmys interface but with niche communities that are active but real light. like no posts for weeks. well anyway I finally realized I could, at least with piefed, click this bell icon and get a notice for every post. Its pretty awesome for low post communities but of course anything with decent traction it would be a nightmare to turn on.
Oh that bell feature sounds pretty nice. I’ll need to check if lemmy has that feature.
yeah I use it for the sto and pathfinder communities which have low volume but I totally want to see anything posted.
Yes, but Lemmy hasn’t blocked me yet because of some weird comment. Reddit did it again yesterday. I know I should delete my Reddit account but…
What are you into?
The fediverse isn’t as addictive or algorithmic as legacy corporate social media, but I follow stuff that I’m interest and see new things everyday.
