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Looking for a Reddit alternative? Lemmy tell you, they currently kinda suck
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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Like it or not, Reddit is still a big player in the internet game. Let's bring together the best of both worlds, shall we?
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I gotta admit, it's very confusing trying to figure out where and how to sign up. You got a bunch of separate servers, I mean instances, and each has different things going for it but they're also all connected, it's kinda hard to wrap your head around at first. If you want to sign up for reddit, you sign up and you're there. That's what we're used to, that's the norm. Also, the overload of lemmy.world is a bit sour but that's inherently because the fediverse isn't too well explained.
But this is actually really nice. Knowing where the server is, and who runs it, it's much more personal. The (what do you cal subs here?) communities and also the infrastructure are run by passionate people, and huge props for that. That's just so cool.
And the community subscriber numbers are extremely low. Like more people join and leave the reddit-equivalent subs every day than have ever joined some of these.
That's true but it is getting better. As twitter and reddit continue to drive into the ground, more people will get fed up and look for better options. It's a snowball effect. The reason so many previous social network alternatives died off was that people were annoyed by facebook/twitter/reddit but it was still all fine. With the latest changes, the reasons to leave are getting stronger and stronger. The more people migrate, the more people will have a reason to migrate as well. So I'm optimistic about the future.