Before Reddit there was Digg, which popularized up- and down-votes on online posts. Now the founders of both platforms — social media veterans Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian — are relaunching the early Reddit rival with a focus on “humanity and connection” they hope will be boosted by the use of arti
I mean, I’m not about to leave Lemmy, this place scratches an itch that only old Reddit and Digg gave me. But competition for the steaming greedy shitpile that Reddit’s become is welcome to me, better to keep them on their toes after their awful anti-user antics.
We need more people on the fediverse, not yet another corporation compromised by fascists
They aren’t mutually exclusive options.
Nothing is stopping some big corp from spinning up their own Fediverse service.
See Gmail as an example.
Lemmy has that “old-school forum” feel, except all the forums can talk to each other.
true except the ones that can’t
Technicalities aside, of course. It’s just the general feel, you know?
I’ll go to whatever is the better experience for healthy online communities. Lemmy scratches an itch now, but there is definitely room for improvement.
It’s still hard for small niche community to gain traction here, the mod tools don’t scale for beans, and onboarding into an instance is still a big barrier for too many people.
It’s being relaunched by one of the founders of reddit, so…