Just making sure I’m in the right place. I cannot see any developed communities here so I’ve started wondering, what’s the real place everyone from Reddit has moved to? I’ve heard something about Discuit, but never tried it.

  • Pat@kbin.run
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    1 year ago

    They’re right here on the threadiverse

    Yeah, nowhere near the size of reddit, but who wants that? Easier to have discussions without bazillions of people posting crap like “works for me” or being dicks.

    I don’t really trust other alternatives. Being unfederated, they rely on a closed source solution maintained by a single person or very small group of people. There’s nothing in place if the plugs ever get pulled, everything is lost and like reddit, whose to say these owners won’t turn their website slowly into the cesspit reddit is?

    Yeah, an instance owner of lemmy/kbin could theoretically pull the plug on their instance or enshitify it, but you can just switch to a different instance and keep accessing the content you were.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
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      1 year ago

      The threadiverse/fediverse/whatever you call it I still feel is the future, so long as it survives, but it has a very long way to go to become truly sustainable as anything but a niche pocket of the internet.

      It is nice to not have all the obnoxious static that comes with the huge mass of users reddit has, but that sparseness comes with the same online emptiness that living in a rural area does. Resources are much harder to find, and varied interactions with lots of people take significantly more personal effort.