or is there another platform that is…
Most popular, probably, but that doesn’t mean it’s popular. There are some old phpBB forums with more users than all of Lemmy combined.
My guess would be redlib as the most popular. It lets you read Reddit without having to turn off your VPN or log in.
I wouldn’t really consider that an alternative but that is probably more popular than lemmy
The most popular Reddit alternative is day drinking and screaming racist abuse at passers by on the street.
You don’t even have to register!
I’m in
Not exactly the answer to the question but I do want to comment that I think a lot of people went to sites that aren’t Reddit-like if they left Reddit. My husband went to Bluesky.
I’m pissed that so many people went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon
I’m actually okay with it. All of the insufferable people appear to be on bsky (all of the Twitter converts) and all the really interesting people are on Mastodon. Bsky is also full of AI slop.
Mastodon needs a UI that better facilitates on-ramping people new to the platform. I tried it a few times and it just felt like work finding people to follow.
Bsky on the other hand is a twitter clone and so people leaving twitter really don’t need to rework their understanding of how to use the platform.
I don’t like Bsky though so I don’t use either of them.
“Finding people to follow” struck me as odd. Discussing interests with like-minded people or just lurking and reading smart or dumb things would be the standard, at least in my experience. Maybe your path makes more sense. I’m a bit of an introvert so I usually avoid engaging.
Discussing interests with like-minded people
Facebook: discussing different things with friends
Reddit: discussing the same things with strangersI’m good with discussing interests or lurking and reading stuff that’s interesting but generally found it impeding to do either. The interface should be intuitive, and I don’t think I should have to look to an external resource to figure out how to use the app (so I didn’t).
I like Bluesky a lot, but it’s more a Twitter replacement than Reddit. Harder to talk to dedicated communities for things on there. Like if want show recommendations, I’d rather go to a community/subreddit that has 92k members than asking the 80 followers I have on Bluesky (only like 10 or less aren’t bots I’m pretty sure or would even see my post) with the small chance a couple non-followers would see it and maybe comment.
The fediverse is your alternative, particularly Lemmy and PieFed. Welcome.
I’ve looked on and off for a couple years now and Lemmy has the most momentum that I’ve seen.
I use hackernews as well but it’s more tech industry focused. Not really a replacement for reddit since there are no subreddits. It is run by a big evil company though if that gives bonus points.
There is lobste.rs which I see in Google search sporadically, but I think that is because it favors common domains and Lemmy content is spread out over thousands of indivdual domains
I don’t think lobsters is a direct alternative to Reddit since its main topic is tech-related stuff and Lemmy’s more like general-purposed. Also it’s invite only so I guess hackernews is more appropriate?
lobsters is invite-only so… the definition of “reddit alternative” will vary per person in this case.
Probably. I went searching specifically for reddit alternatives. Found Lemmy immediately and haven’t bothered to go looking for others. I assume many here followed the same path I did.
We’re pretty lazy as a species.
Don’t worry, I put a lot more effort into finding alternatives and still landed here.
Well there’s Dread, the most active subdread has almost 500k subscribers
How many active users currently? That’s a more important metric than total subscribers, because there’s no way to tell how many of them may be dormant.
Is it Onion only?
That’s sort of its whole point, yes
Yep.
I’m here but I’m also still on Fark after 25 years.
Digg is returning to something resembling its OG days.
It’s being led by the unusual partnership of Alex Ohanian (one of 3 co-founders of Reddit, better than Huffman), and Kevin Rose (Digg founder).
They bought back the rights and are building it now. It may end up being more popular than reddit.
Sounds like a scam to get VC money before it eventually turns back into old digg/current Reddit. I wouldn’t join it if I was looking for a good experience, I’d just stick with Reddit.
I’ll stay here instead
It has some flaws like a lot of ai built in, forced ai tldrs you cant turn off, daily leaderboards for top posters/commenters, but I still like it more than reddit’s current form, but thats prob becuase it isnt public yet
ai built in, forced ai tldrs you cant turn off, daily leaderboards for top posters/commenters
Fucking barf. They’re gonna breed an even more toxic culture than reddit with that bullshit.
If you thought karma whoring was bad when they just had a number to chase, imagine how bad it will be when you have direct visibility of your competition on being the biggest karma whore in town…
It is NOT difficult to build a superior product right now. But you’re battling the legal side of Big Tech’s takeover to get infrastructure/marketing. Enshittification demands that the people can’t find the incentive or will to leave, and were firmly there as society.
Ah you got the early access for a couple bucks? I’m bummed I missed the window.
I have a lot of things to say having been in the software, journalism domain and thought heavily about conceptualizing what such a platform may look like for the betterment of society. Jimmy Wales has been trying, too. Was on their discord for a bit but I was a little skeptical of their direction, even if noble.
before ppl complain about the money again, it went to a charity everyone voted on in circle and im pretty sure the charity confirmed they received it with a thanks digg or some shit
I can send you an invite when they go live this week
Based on users yes, but also checkout PieFed. I switched to it a few months back, it’s like Lemmy but better. (for me at least)
What makes piefed better than Lemmy?
Subjectively speaking, after switching to Piefed I feel like “the internet is back”.
Engaging conversation, good tools for filtering the front page to your liking, and the audience seems generally speaking more mature. I do expect that to change if the platform grows in size.
The main ones for me are
It’s got on boarding and de-duplication, on PieFed if I view eg. this post https://piefed.social/post/749818#comment_6102866
It combines/aggregates it with cross-posts/reposts
So I can see it in one place, and see all the comments in one place.So if you comment there, where will it end up?
That does sound quite nice actually
For OP’s purposes they’re probably identical.
i have nothing but anecdotal evidence to go off of but just today i saw a lemmy post used as a source in a news article, which i can’t say i’ve ever seen of any other “link aggregator” aside from reddit. so it’s certainly up there!
and like others said, the activitypub interoperability certainly helps. i’m an mbin user but i’d wager more than half of my subscribed “magazines” are actually lemmy communities
404media is exactly the site I would expect to be aware of Lemmy among the semi-mainstream tech outlets (along with TheVerge to a lesser extent).
Holy shit that’s pretty sweet
I saw Lemmy on an Instagram meme page, and I haven’t seen any other reddit alternative (unless you count 4chan technically)
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
