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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 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tildes is the only other alternative that I know besides lemmy. It's more focused on discussion, as you probably know. Personally, though, I doubt it can scratch my reddit itch. I do enjoy discussions, but I also need my "nonsense stuff" fix like memes. I do like what they're trying to do. I think they're a good complementary site to lemmy if someone is ditching reddit altogether.

[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I kind of don't necessarily want another locked in non-federated site to replace reddit when we have lemmy and other potentially better / less locked in options.

That said, I'm not against standalone forums, so tildes.net ... well, it looks like a currently less successful lemmy instance with about the same or less engagement, and I can't see how one would sign up if one wanted to. Last I heard there was an invite process? No thanks really.

You also need to really define "reddit alternative" - do you mean a forum? Or something trying like lemmy to be a sort of clone? In the "forum" link aggregation option, there's HackerNews. There's the BBS The Well. There's sort of internet service provider focused forums like dslreports.com.

[–] pancake@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

If the site is not federated, it's not possible to leave it without also leaving all its content behind.

[–] Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

As a webdev I only consider alternatives that implement ActivityPub which is what drawn me to Lemmy. Other parties have come out with Reddit-like but a lot are still closed gardens under unknown people's control. I trust the W3C on this one.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yo dawg can I get a tildes invite?