I found out about it because of a hacker news comment discussing the Reddit drama. I’m pretty upset that I didn’t discover it on Reddit. I assume any mention of Lemmy was marked as spam or was I just not browsing the right communities?
Came across a reference to it on Reddit. I didn’t do anything at the time, but when I came across two or three more references to it just before the blackout I thought I’d give it a try.
After I saw the AMA with spez, I didn’t have any hope for reddit being useable anymore. So I googled for something else to do my doom scrolling. I ran across a 4 year old YouTube video explaining the fediverse. Then I googled fediverse reddit alternative, and here I am. I wish I would have found out about all of this a long time ago.
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r/rust a few years ago
I caught the post about reddit censoring mentions of lemmy that made it to the front page. Streisand effect.
I saw it on hacker news and wanted to check it out as I intended to delete my Reddit account but wanted a new home where I could get my info fix. I came, I saw, I deleted my Reddit account and here I am :)
It feels like a lot of people new to the fediverse think it revolves around lemmy. It always feels a bit divisive to come across posts like this that single out lemmy. It would be nice if people asked about the fediverse or threadiverse or something. Don’t forget that us kbin users (among others) are browsing the same threads and partaking in the same discussions.
I didn’t know there were other reddit like federated apps out there, my bad.
The tech is incredible, posts are shared seamlessly and replies are almost instant! The threadiverse is going to have so many cool apps in the future.
I thought everything revolved around Mastodon.
Waiting for the day when YouTube annoy lots of users and the same discussion happens about Peertube.
I dont think that day will ever come. Hosting text is one thing, hosting 4k video is something else entirely. Kbin and lemmy have both had server problems and neither host lots of video like YouTube does. Its questionable weather YouTube is even profitable.
It will be different, for sure, but big YouTube personalities who make most of their money from brand deals already could actually see themselves come out ahead in the fictitious world where everyone leaves Twitter and Reddit for the Fediverse.
Hosting videos is expensive, but the big names make more money for YouTube than covers said names’ usage costs, and if people ever had reason to realize that they can follow PeerTube from Lemmy/kbin/Mastodon/Calckey/etc., then Bob’s your uncle.
Of course, we don’t live in that world. But it’s a nice thought.
I’ll chime in and add Reddit. Once I saw the direction things were going in, I went ahead and created accounts on tildes, lemmy, and kbin (which was the order I learned of them in). Right now, I think I’m most fond of kbin, but I wanted to keep my options open.
in a comment about the german r/ich_iel blackout, it was about feddit tho so more about the fediverse in general
I can’t really recall when I first learned about it existing. But I was looking into options for messaging, and saw it mentioned alongside matrix in an article. I’m fairly sure it was lemmygrad that I tried out at the time, because everything there was politically oriented, and with a heavily socialist/communist slant. That was back a while though
But it was pretty empty, so I didn’t go back until the reddit shit with Apollo happened. It was obvious to me that reddit was changing beyond what I was willing to put up with, so I looked into alternatives and discovered that lemmy was actually much netter developed than when I originally saw it. Kbin came along with that.
From a comment on Reddit.
On Mastodon!
Reddit has been banning/deleting comments and subreddits dedicated to Lemmy or Kbin—unless someone notices, then they un-delete or un-ban
Interesting. Up until a few days ago, there was a subreddit devoted to Reddit alternatives. It’s how I learned about kbin and other options.
Some of the posts were, let’s say, suspiciously negative. Lemmy/kbin were supposedly impossible to sign up for unless you had at least 2 degrees in CS. (I managed, somehow) Oh, and lemmy is run by tankies. (Wouldn’t care if it were). And it looks like hot garbage. (I like it well enough. It’s easier on the eyes than new or old reddit imo)
It seemed like there were too many alternatives to make a rational choice, but ALSO “they all suck so don’t bother.” It sounded overwhelming, but I just said fuckit and picked one.
I wasn’t expecting a fully formed set of communities and content or a perfectly polished interface. And I wasn’t expecting the interface to be filled with tons of features or to have no learning curve. This is actually a lot nicer that what I expected, which was a very new/basic site that will need to do a lot of growing.
Old account here. I was directed to Hexbear after r/cth was banned from Reddit. Later on, I learned about other instances. Federation wasn’t a thing back then; I made an account here to check federation out once it finally released.
chapotraphouse?
Yeah, those were the days. Hexbear carries some of the culture, but is generally a nicer place to be.
Reddit, like most comments here