>0 anonymous @ 2023/06/18 20:32
With all the Reddit-related drama lately I was wondering if any of you use or are considering using Lemmy or any similar federated service? I don't know if Lemmy would work as a full replacement for Reddit, but I think it might work for tech/FOSS-oriented communities. If you use it, what instance are you signed up to? I thought BeeHaw looked good but I see they have defederated with a couple of other big instances which I guess would limit options for joining active communities.
>1 ultrachip @ 2023/06/20 11:38
>>OP I lurked Lemmy once or twice, haven't signed up for an account yet because I didn't see any communities that really stood out to me. There's also tildes.net (which as far as I can tell has no significant connection to "tilde" in the pubnix sense). Stylistically they seem closer to classic Reddit but I haven't really given them a serious look yet, in no small part because they're in an invite-only mode right now and I'm not cool enough to get an invite lol. I've poked at Mastodon a little but I've always hated the Twitter-esque "microblog" paradigm so it ultimately didn't interest me.
>2 jazei @ 2023/06/28 14:46
I believe that Reddit is working fine again! only NSFW were killed>>OP
>3 ultrachip @ 2023/06/28 19:42
>>2 NSFW was really only a side issue. The bigger complaint is that they are charging a ridiculously high API fee beginning next month, and so a lot of third-party tools will be unable to afford to continue operating.
>4 sporiff @ 2023/07/06 22:37
>>OP From what I've seen of Lemmy, I prefer kbin as a federated alternative to Reddit. But to be honest, I wonder if federation really fits this style of communication. I never really got on with Reddit because it made communities feel somewhat homogenous. I think I prefer just having standalone forums, to be honest. Unless those forums run Discourse. I'm really not a fan of Discourse.
>5 emymin @ 2023/07/08 13:57
I tried Lemmy but I found it a bit confusing, and wasn't a big fan of the UI. Mastodon on the other hand, I have been using it for a while now, recently switched to a self-hosted Misskey instance which I've been enjoying quite a bit!
>6 anonymous @ 2023/07/09 21:07
I use xmpp, matrix and email :-)