The Four Best Reddit Alternatives
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As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more.
  • jason@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy does not have upvote and downvote buttons

    But… it does?

    • 1000knives@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      as a longtime mastodon user, tech articles about the fediverse are often very confused and under researched. it’s like tech reporters take one look at the websites and their brains shut off- if they ever even looked at them to begin with.

    • Cyb3rManiak@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      Depends on the instance. Lemmy.One has downvoting turned off, for example.

      (edit) Also, there are differences between posts and stories/blogs on the fediverse. On the stories/blogs you get an option to favorite/boost instead of upvote or downvote.
      And since Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon all deal with it in slightly different ways, maybe they just got confused.

    • lemillionsocks@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      It feels really poorly researched. Like some instances disable downvotes like beehaw does but we still have upvoting.

      • InEnduringGrowStrong@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’ve been here for maybe a day now, so salt accordingly.
        As far as I can tell, even though beehaw has downvotes disabled, since the instance I use has them enabled, I could still technically downvote you, at least in the UI.
        You’d just never know and it would not show on your end or for anyone viewing from beehaw.org.
        The part I’m not so sure about is if they would show for others on the same instance as me.
        I think depending on where a third person would be viewing this thread from they would see different numbers of upvotes.
        I certainly notice a few differences while reading from a different instance vs browsing the original instance directly.
        Learning lemmy has been pretty interesting.

        • MaienMEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          They would show for others on your instance, but not for people on other instances, so each instance will have a separate downvote counter.

          • InEnduringGrowStrong@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Thanks, that tracks with what I’ve seen so far and discussions like these have helped me understand this whole thing a bit better. My first foray was a bit confusing because I initially joined on sh.itjust.works but tried to browse a community on beehaw, not knowing about the defederation, which isn’t too obvious for a newcomer.

      • GraceGH@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Have an antigravity arrow.

        Is that not what I was supposed to be calling them?

  • frosty@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Tildes is another website trying to be the new Reddit.

    Tildes is very much not trying to be a new Reddit. And certainly not the new Reddit.

    Tildes has a clear vision for itself as a mature forum for long text-based discussions, with the trappings of a link aggregator.

    There are no image posts (although posts may link to an image), and memes and shitposting are discouraged at best. There are also no user-created communities (subreddits) at this time - although there may be in the future.

    If you enjoy old-style discussion forums, you’ll probably enjoy Tildes - but it’s certainly not trying to compete with Reddit, Lemmy, kbin, or anything else. It’s doing it’s own thing.

  • thatonedude1210@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m on Beehaw, kbin, and Mastodon.

    Wanted to try tildes, but found it wasn’t to my liking. However out of all of them, I prefer Beehaw/Lemmy to the others, but kbin is grabbing my interest.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah; the thing I like about Lemmy is the lack of microblogging features. It keeps me sane.

  • Jcb2016@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Kbin is everything wrapped into one. Threads = Post like Reddit, Microblogging = Like Twitter/Mastodon Magazines = Subreddits. Everything is perfect!

    • delmain@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 years ago

      You say perfect, but my perfect platform doesn’t have microblogging at all, so that feature missing would be the best.

      My point being that perfect is subjective

  • Adella1961@beehaw.orgEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’m trying out Kbin, Sh.tjust.works, Mastodon and Beehaw. Time will tell which one becomes the front runner.

    • MoonRocketeer@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I use Mastadon as a Twitter replacement, even though it still can see other content. I like how there’s not an apparent algorithm–it’s all chronological and feels less pandering to what it thinks I want to see.

      As for Reddit alternatives, I’m happy with Beehaw and Kbin. I hope they both stick around.