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As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more.
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“Lemmy does not have upvote and downvote buttons”
uh… don’t downvote me for posting this
What? I see and use upvote and downvote buttons in Jerboa. In fact I just updated your comment.
Are you talking about these things? Those are escalation arrows, not upvote and downvote buttons, totally different.Yes. That’s what I see. I had no idea it wasnt upvote/downvote as I use jerboa.
So the escalation arrows just push a comment to the top?
Isn’t that what votes are for? lol
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Switching to Discord is pointless. That’s switching from a website controlled by one evil corporation to one controlled by a different evil corporation. Discord is still in hyper-growth mode, so they aren’t going to be adding user-hostile features for awhile. Tilde has the same problem.
Discord is still in hyper-growth mode, so they aren’t going to be adding user-hostile features for awhile.
Outside of the username thing.
I wonder what the atmosphere at reddit HQ is like this week.
Phew we really fucked that up, but glad that’s over! Now let’s get back to finishing up these new mod tools and releasing a great mobile app and finally releasing the fix to the video player
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fires! Spez-ssistant: “Mr. Spez, another investor is blowing up my phone all morning, can I transfer the call?” Spez: “No, hold my calls, I’m searching for a PR company. Did any of those other ones answer your emails yet?” Spez-ssistant: “No Spez, they all said they are too far booked out on this submersible company thing” Spez: “Dammit! What about our moderators?” Spez-ssistant: “Bad news, the top subs are full of literal buttholes and there is nobody to delete them now that we banned most of the mods” Spez: “What if I promote you and all your friends, can you guys stay on top of this for a while?” Spez-ssistant: “I just got an email from CircleJerk Securities, it says they are pulling out of the IPO!”
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More likely they are expecting this to blow over and people to return to reddit. This isn’t the first-time people have called for a mass exodus and they are expecting it to go like it has before.
Well how many people do you think actually left Reddit or care? Not counting the mods, maybe 0.1% of Reddit users???
For ppl who don’t want to click the link (if using Memmy App) it’s:
Lemmy, kbin, tildes and discord
I don’t see how discord is a replacement in any way.
It says it’s not so much a replacement, but rather you might want to use it if you want to follow a particular community irrespective of the platform/format. For example, right now there are several games whose communities are more active on discord servers than any of the other mentioned websites including reddit.
For specialized communities or works pretty well.
Except communities on Discord aren’t search-engine-facing, so they’re a complete dead end. Nobody can discover useful information there unless they are already members of that particular community. It’s the “walled garden” effect.
Pretty sure tildes has an issue with the admin turning a side eye to particular user accounts who bully people on the platform
Though I learned that from someones comment on redddit in response to someone else talking about tildes and I can’t be bothered to go and find it because it’s reddit
i was on tildes for a few months. anyone who offers any dissenting opinion, however mild, is harassed by the bullies on the sub and they the admin bans them for ‘causing trouble’
it’s very much a ‘say what everyone else says, or else’ type of place. the admin wants it it to be his own little internet hugbox
I was going to ask how to get an invite, but if that’s how it is, I’ll stay away. I love how positive and friendly it is here and Lemmy.
What’s wrong with opening the link on Memmy? I just did it and it worked fine
nothing wrong but some just dont want to riskyclick like me… a mentality coming from reddit ;)
Oh? No up/down voting?
As far as I am concerned it’s just Lemmy/Kbin for life.
Tildes is invite-only, so it’s not really much of an ‘alternative’ at all.
As far as I can tell, it’s another centralized platform as well? I’m hoping we learn from the mistakes of reddit and move back to a less centralized forum
So pretty much useless sadly
I don’t disagree, but it’s definitely a shame the decentralized platforms are hard for the average user. Most want a video feed, ease of use, and loads of content. While we are getting there with content, the other two are currently lacking.
Hopefully we can make the ease-of-use thing a reality, it’s not realistic to explain to non-tech people how to utilize Lemmy, kbin, etc. Most will lose interest really fast
Yeah, it’s just as centralized as Reddit.
If you like another 'just a website, not a federation’ alternative then squabbles might be more interesting?
I’ll see how it shapes up.
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The irony is that reddit is creating its own competition - when before there was nothing.
Back tracking a few years when digg began to self-destruct, reddit was, in fact, a viable competitor.
Reddit never had a competitor until reddit itself, through the sheer incompetence of its gaslighting CEO, forced the creation of multiple (now) viable competitors.
yes and no: lemmy released in 2019, so let’s not sell the fediverse short! people decided that a federated forum-like platform should exist irrespective of reddit’s current implosion!
i think it’s important to acknowledge that these platforms exist not only because of reddit’s incompetence: they have value regardless (ie, even if reddit does a 180 ;) )!
*edit: of course you’re totally right that reddit has helped to make the platforms viable competition with their exodus
Squabbles.io looks pretty slick too
But aren’t Squabbles and Tilde both not federated, and therefore potentially subject to changes or even an IPO by the owners?
I set up an account on Squabbles but I hope Lemmy/Kbin really take off as I would much rather not deal with another company.
I did too but it hasn’t really clicked with me the way Lemmy has. I spent a little time in there, and its super slick, love the UI, seems to have a lot of active content coming up, but it also seemed pretty heavy on memes. I’ll still check it out some more though. I like trying new stuff
is squabbles federated?
No, I don’t believe so.
From that article it seems like Lemmy has the best shot of replacing reddit! Not only was it listed first, it’s description was the most approachable.
It’s because Lemmy’s the most Reddit-like out of the alternatives, and anyone can make an account. It’s gonna be confusing for a while (especially the whole concept of the fediverse) but this might be our best shot at preventing the overcentralization that all these dotcom moguls are trying to peddle.
