Viable Reddit replacements
I've already provided information on why Lemmy is not a viable Reddit replacement.
So what is? People will need a place to go during the protest, and possibly over the long term if the API situation isn't resolved.
In this post, I will try to put together the most promising Reddit replacements.
- Kbin - An ActivityPub-compatible protocol, like Mastodon, Lemmy, etc. This means that you can talk to people on Mastodon, Lemmy, etc. with a Kbin account. Go here, choose an instance, and register. See further instructions here and here. No mobile apps are yet available.
- SaidIt - A Reddit fork that's been around for almost six years. It has relatively sane terms and a fork of RedReader for Android, but no iPhone app. It would be absolutely trivial for third-party Reddit app developers to modify their apps to work with SaidIt.
- Scored - This one has also been around for a few years. It has a familiar look and feel, a lot of the popular subs that you already know and love, and official iPhone and Android apps -- a rarity among Reddit alternatives.
Reddit was the obvious replacement for Digg back in the day, but there is no obvious replacement for Reddit right now. We might have to try a few places until we find one that works well enough.
Proposals besides the above are welcome, and ones you've had personal experience with are even better.
Posted Jun 6, 2023, 9:18 AM UTC · edited
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Your last post about Lemmy seemed to boil down to "Commies bad." It wasn't very substantive.
The perpetrators of the 5 biggest genocides in world history are bad.
How about now?
This reply is complete nonsense and betrays your total lack of self control. You're to fit to run this place. But you thought of the name first so we're stuck with not having a real example of the place at a time when we badly need one.
You should be ashamed of your complete lack of professionalism. This isn't supposed to be your personal soap box. You're not protecting anyone, you're jerking off in public to your own reflection.
False. It's factually correct and logically consistent.
It's blatant special pleading. You don't hate communists because of genocide, you are using genocide because you hate communists. Humans have been killing each other in vast numbers since the dawn of farming allowed for it.
The only reason you even know about those genocides is because you searched them out after hearing about them as a talking point.
Let's talk about the native Americans for a minute. Yeah, thought so.
Cramming genocide into this topic is pure political maneuvering. You're not interested in freedom or even people. You're just trying to grab power.
Let's talk about how many people on earth have died on the alter of for-profit medicine. Let's talk about how many have died from illegal wars and what would be war crimes by any objective definition.
You're brain dead and soulless.
This is just the stereotypical “all communists are bad” thing, isn’t it?
If you click through some of these anti-Lemmy posts for about 3 continuous hours, you might * eventually * get to about 10% of an actual explanation:
-The creator or admins "featured" a post where someone disagrees with the alleged existence of an apparent historical event for which U.S. MSM says this event 1) occured and 2) is or was a genocide. Presumably because this os a "unique" subject instead of a "constant political talking point", and is also a subject which by it's nature gives a good oppurtujity for debate and/or further evidence on the opinion of each side.
-The creator was once banned from a particular subreddit, and complained about the ban on another subreddit, in a way that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and is completely unreadable, unless you were extremely "involved in" both subreddits at the particular week when this had occured. Since nobody here likely has any idea about anything that is apparently mentioned in his complaint post, the only thing thay we can see about it by reading the complaint post that they (EVENTUALLY!) link to, is that he believes that the people who banned him are racists, and he also believes that they are white. This, for some reason, on this one and only occasion in literally ever (or at least "ever" since the concept of modern feminism "combined with what pundits call left" existed), greatly upsets pro-censorship leftist extremists? That someone was called a "white supremecist" because they did one bothersome thing to one individual who apparently is not white, and (I assume) race of the banned individual was (I assume) not cited by the "perpetraitor" as being part of the reason for the ban?
-The creator and/or admins do not suddenly ban everyone who disagrees with the people who complain about Lemmy, on any or every political topic, if you use the default or "main" instance or the 2nd creator-run instance.
......That's literally ALL of the actual "complaints" related to the relevant people, that I can find within 3 hours.
It includes only what is said above (what I have eventually found, anyway), and includes absolutely literally nothing that is instead about "why people should not use Lemmy".
....There was also ONE post, apparently unrelated to any of the purposely-refusing-to-actually-write-actual-alleged-information fake-complaining people, which says that Lemmy will keep your post on the server if you press "delete" on your post. .....You know, exactly like Reddit does, and has done since the beginning of it's existence (or at least the beginning of it's well-known phase of existence since 2006 or whenever).
Anyone who did this, and anyone who supports it, and anyone who tries to make excuses for it, is bad.
If this includes you, then yes, you're bad. You're an accomplice to both genocide and hate.
You’re assuming that every living communist today is responsible for committing horrible actions and crimes against humanity. While communism is heavily flawed and often doomed to fail, that doesn’t mean we should just go on and purge every single fucking one of them. As a matter of fact, Cuba actually has more LGBTQ+ rights than the US. Go on and tell me that’s a bad thing.
You still haven't told us why we shouldn't use the software Lemmy.
Learn to read.
https://www.reddit.com/r/APIcalypse/comments/140qymq/lemmy_is_not_a_viable_reddit_replacement/
Try to be a little more polite, will you?
Even with the main developer being a "God-damned commie", why should be not use the software Lemmy?
much worse by the numbers than Nazis yet lots of Redditors complain about Naizs instead
I don't blame them entirely. It's a result of the indoctrination they received.