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Thoughts on other Reddit alternatives? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ThatLinuxUser@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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I've been using Lemmy for the last couple days and have quite liked it. I want to hear the community's thoughts on some of the other reddit "competitors".

The only other (obviously non-federated) one I'm familiar with is tildes.net, mostly just because I have had an account on it for the last few years.

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[–] kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s also kbin, which seems to be compatible with lemmy.

[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I would argue that for most purposes, kbin IS lemmy. It has 1/10th the native user-count and 1/100th the native comment count according to https://the-federation.info/platform/73 and https://the-federation.info/platform/184. I get the sense that a large part of what people use kbin for is as an alternative UI to access lemmy communities. It seems much further from achieving a critical mass of native communities though.

That's not a knock on kbin, people use it an enjoy it. But I'd contend that to the extent that either kbin or lemmy are "reddit replacements" at all, they act together as a single federated option with multiple UX's rather than two discrete options.