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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Immersive_Matthew 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In think the key to helping those stuck in the Reddit world is to cross post Lemmy/kbin links to Reddit. You can even get any url to a post via the share feature on the apps. Let’s make them aware there is a place where they are not just making money more money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You could cross post to Lemmy and then put a link in the Reddit thread that says something like: "for the real conversation, the way Reddit used to be, come to Lemmy"

That might get Reddit accounts banned though πŸ˜…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm generally browsing the news subs which is usually what I did on reddit. I also check out All but comment less often in things I find there because it is just filled with memes after I blocked all the hexbear garbage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hey there, also calling back from kbin.social as some of the commenters in this mini-raft.
Although most of the politics posts can be a bit of an eyesore to most of us here, I found comfort in this instance, even going so far as to establish some new mags for my ephemeral interests, one for the musico-archivist Derivakat herself, of which I have grown tired of continually building as my college era began to set in, up until this point.

As for private small-group convos, I'm also mulling moving on to revolt.chat along with a few others in my own Discord server if ever its fires start blazing forth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What sort of communities are you looking for, OP? Maybe we can give you a hand getting settled in.

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[–] Ziggurat 3 points 1 year ago

Many are around. All ? May-be not, some people would have moved to other places (discord, Mastodon, and more)

Welcome here, looks like you already got the federation concept and how to access communities which aren't on your home instance, congrats. Remember that you're part of the community and be the change you want to see

Sometimes, it's a bit messy as you get 3 communities with the same name on different instance and only one of the 3 is active, but in general it's works

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not technically a refugee as I'm happy to use both websites, but I'm here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Heretic!

(Jk)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They went back to reddit or scatter around other social networks or ultimately ended up turning into floating balls of nostalgia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is a lot like old old Reddit

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We all went here

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