I miss dial-up BBSes and federated message echoes like FidoNet. This kind of stuff feels a bit like the good ol' days! (I'm old)
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2023
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I think I just searched for open source reddit and came across Lemmy. I'm really into FOSS and I like decentralized social media so it was a perfect match.
I wasn't too keen on Twitter and mostly spent time on reddit. When Mastodon came out I was intrigued, but the interface just wasn't something I was into. Lemmy seems way more up my alley.
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So Reddit might do away with API. Will that effect RSS feeds too? I look at Reddit but the subs I'm really interested in are tracked in my InoReader. If that goes I'll be done with Reddit.
Unlikely, because RSS doesn't count as API, but who knows for sure.
That's what I would think too. Guess we'll see. Thanks.
Reddit is an absolute dumpster fire right now.
Honestly just playing around w/ self hosting it.
Reddit's been spiraling downhill for years. Been searching for an alternative that's not the cesspits of Twitter and 4chan. API is getting killed, government and corporations pushing agendas, armchair experts, subreddit bannings, poor UI/UX, echochambers, hardly any OC, and many many other issues that I'm sure others have already mentioned. I'm dumping the site as soon as old.reddit goes down.
There's nothing but outrage culture on social media. Just looking for a spot to chill really...
@GoldenDoge Because it is a topic-oriented access to the Fediverse.
I don't have any experience with #Reddit or similar, but rather like that it's a kind of forum where the content is a bit more sorted than in the micro-/macroblogging software. Nevertheless, everyone with accounts from #Misskey, #Mastodon, #Friendica, #Hubzilla etc. can also comment and create posts in #Lemmy communities. So the circle of users is much larger than just Lemmy alone.
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I've been chasing the old Usenet feel for decades. Reddit came close, but I can see the writing on the wall now. Lemmy's got the possibility to get closer.
I’ve been looking for a change from Reddit for a while now and as an Apollo user this is the push I needed. So far this seems like a much better alternative to Reddit!
Reddit is burning alive, twitter is burned down, facebook is dead, 4chan sucks, fark is old, and nothing else exists in this capacity.