I decided to revisit some of the Fediverse alternatives to Reddit after nine months.kbin.social is overrun with spam.Beehaw is very quiet. Doesn't seem to have much activity.Lemmy.world is very active in the larger communities, but they all carry that ...
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@[email protected] I recommend you continue this check-in after another 9 months!
There has been some movement in the developer community for non-Mastodon apps, specifically those that work with a threaded/topic model. This could be the year when Mastodon is no longer the ideal format for browsing the fediverse, but I have high hopes!
Getting there is a different matter.
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replied to julian on last edited by
@julian Will do! I'm interested in seeing how the Fediverse grows over time. The various available Fedi platforms are one of its greatest strengths.
I think Mastodon is always going to be my preferred format for browsing the Fediverse, but I do miss the threaded discussion format of smaller, well-moderated Reddit communities. Apps like Lemmy have potential, but the communities tend to get fragmented across instances. Mastodon's hashtag system works well by comparison.
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replied to Dave Heinemann 🇦🇺 on last edited by
@dHeinemann @stu I left all of those awhile back, exact same feelings.
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@[email protected] speaking from a forum/bulletin board standpoint, Reddit, etc al. kick absolute butt because it was dead simple to start a subreddit/community.
Forums are usually organized by an administrator (and most forums are less "general interest" and more focused in terms of theme), so therein lies some difference.
Three big forum softwares are all shooting for ActivityPub integration, and it will be very interesting to see how they all approach hard questions like user onboarding, content discovery, etc.
One thing you definitely don't get with forums is a fractured community!
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replied to Dave Heinemann 🇦🇺 on last edited by
@dHeinemann I'm with you, I gave up on kbin. It is offline far too often .
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replied to julian on last edited by
@julian That's exactly right.
The fracturing is the worst part of Fedi forum software for me. There might be a million Lemmy communities for any given hobby, but if threads can't be cross-posted across all of them, then the discoverability is terrible and the communities are fractured.
I'd love to see a good solution for this, but I don't know what it is.
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replied to Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲 on last edited by
@chgowiz Yeah, even when I checked in this morning, kbin.social was intermittently failing with HTTP 5XX errors.
Not a great look between that and all the spam.
In fact, it seems that even the top communities there haven't had any new threads for weeks except pharmaceutical ads. Might as well be dead.
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replied to Dave Heinemann 🇦🇺 on last edited by@Dave Heinemann
A whole lot has happened in these nine months, including the appearance of three more projects in the Threadiverse that try to do things better than Lemmy and /kbin.
/kbin was forked to Mbin.
PieFed and Sublinks are entirely new.
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Threadiverse #Lemmy #kbin #/kbin #Mbin #PieFed #Sublinks -
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@jupiter_rowland Thanks for the heads up, Piefed looks interesting!
