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What's your opinion on all the Reddit alternatives? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like a lot of others, I've been looking at Reddit alternatives recently which is what landed me here at Lemmy.

How do you think Lemmy compares to Reddit? But also, for people who have tried other Reddit alternatives than Lemmy, how do they compare? What has been the pros and cons of each community for you?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Here's my opinion on a few I've tried:

Kbin: I liked the UI but I thought calling communities "magazines" was weird. Also, there were features that I felt unnecessary like "boost" or "microblog". Self-hosting documentation was much worse compared to Lemmy.
Squabbles: It took me a while to figure out the UI and honestly did not like it. The icon looks very funny as if it's mocking what the average user is supposed to look like. It also isn't decentralized.
Tildes: I liked the UI and the name. Not much to say other than that it's also not decentralized.
Discuit: The best UI out of the bunch. It's very easy to navigate. I wish it also had a naming community prefix like "!" or "m/" or "s/" or "~". Generally, it feels very Reddit-like but it's also not decentralized.
Lemmy: Very rough start but this and Kbin were really the only real options for me because they're both decentralized. It's gotten a lot better over the past month in terms of performance and UI. There's a lot of apps being developed for it too. Most of Lemmy's annoying quirks are its bugs but those are being fixed after every new release.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, the Squabbles icon is named Bort. How could anyone dislike Bort??

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

I had no idea he had a name. I hope he could cheer up a bit!

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