Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I’m curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there’s no hate-speech (that I’m aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let’s hear your suggestions! Thank you!

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      just in case anyone here is confused … mbin (and its ancestor kbin, which is still running) work just fine with lemmy as they federate with each other. Upshot being that choosing between mbin/kbin and lemmy as an alternative to reddit is not exclusive … choosing one is choosing both … is choosing the fediverse.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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        8 months ago

        *bin also has an advantage of integrating microblog as well, though you can’t change URLs in link posts

        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

          Yep, completely unique aspect of the platform. Some however do find it too complex or confusing, which I say just reassure anyone that that’s not uncommon if you do.

          • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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            8 months ago

            yes, though mbin doesn’t have an all content view, so you’d need to switch to the microblog-only view to see these. kbin has much less development going on but currently has an all content view that combines threads and posts.

        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Hard to recommend one over the other, especially as I’m not following things closely. mbin is a fork and seems well maintained at the moment while the lead dev and founder of kbin seems to be struggling to keep working on kbin. Things could change though.

          • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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            8 months ago

            they also overhauled the threads view filtering, though the all content and new comments highlighting features are still missing

    • nossaquesapao
      3·
      8 months ago

      That site lists misskey as the second most popular fediverse network, but I never heard of it. I will check it out.

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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        8 months ago

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misskey

        My understanding is that Misskey is a lot older, from before the Fediverse and ActivityPub was a thing. It’s very popular in Japan, so it might not have as much content from other places.

        Firefish (formerly known as Calckey) is an actively developed fork of Misskey that hopes to add many requested community features.

        So firefish was started because Misskey development slowed (or stopped?), but it has had issues recently

        https://fediversereport.com/an-uncertain-future-for-firefish/

        • can@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          8 months ago

          Together with Firefish developer Namekuji, Panos Damelos have started the Catodon project, a fork of Firefish. In the announcement blog post Catodon dives deeper into what makes the project stand out, noting the community driven aspect of the project. Catodon joins IceShrimp and Sharkey as recent Misskey fork projects that are all gaining popularity as small-scale fediverse servers.

          What a world.