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jointhefediverse.net seems to be a commonly linked resource for directing people to join the Fediverse.

Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives. Their GitHub README explains why.

Previous relevant discussion: https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

To me, the only solution to this is to do a hard fork. Take the code (It's AGPL), rename it if Lemmy is trademarked, and encourage admins to use it and contributors to target it. Maybe start a non-profit or LLC while we're at it.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good luck finding Rust devs interested in link aggregators. That fork would probably fall behind, and people would switch back to Lemmy as they keep delivering features.

Mbin and Piefed use more popular languages and haven't caught up yet

[–] michael@lemmy.chrisco.me 1 points 13 hours ago

Instead of trying to fork, maybe we try and go the Gotosocial way and make a MVP smol version. Something that can house 10 or so users. People can spin up whatever they want.

Honestly what I wouldnt give for a reddit theme on mastodon that uses their hashtags as the communities themselves. That would be cool in my opinion.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 17 hours ago

Sublinks is doing a rewrite

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be honest, at this point forking the jointhefediverse website would probably be easier

[–] FuzzyWeevil@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 hours ago

This seems like the better idea and way easier lol.