Fuck reddit and digg. Worthless. Lemmy is way better in every respect.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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The mobile app is basically a clone
Amazing. Make loads of noise about snagging Christian from Apollo to be a part of the relaunch, then make an app that has nowhere near the charm of Apollo.
Meanwhile someone made an open source version of Apollo for Lemmy and it's great. Voyager is the name for anyone not aware yet (though I think most have heard)
I posted my comment using that very client 😀
Posted from voyager app!
Commenting from voyager app.
Voyager makes moderating a breeze, too!
Haven’t been on new Reddit in a while (anytime I go I use ‘old.’).
Is the first 70% of the screen really an ad?
Yes, sometimes even more than that.
I checked it out. It's not a ghost town, but I feel like there is less activity than on federated platforms. It doesnt have the critical number of people talking about stuff to be interesting and actually result in dialog.
It actually is a ghost town. There's so little engagement, and even the upvote-counts seemingly aren't obfuscated, and are super low.
There's also already a lot of conservative trolls who will flame for "MUH SPEECH" if you suggest that they're an annoying conservative. "Hey man, I'm just asking the questions". In a ghost town, they appear louder.
My theory is that people just don't want to comment anymore. We all learned our lesson. If we comment, we just feed the AI beast. I'm not offering my insights and opinions so that you can scrape them.
Alternative platforms always start with the people that aren't welcome in the old ones - Lemmy was literally originally made as a communist safespace:
Fuck the white supremacist Reddit admins, want me to set up a self hosted one for /r/communism?
Hey all, longtime Marxist-leninist, recorder of left audiobooks, and megathread shitposter here.
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So I've spent the past few months working on a self hostable, federated, Reddit alternative called Lemmy, and it's pretty much ready to go. Unlike here we'd have ultimate control over all content, and would never have to self censor.
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Raddle isn't an option obviously since it's run by this arch anti tankie scum, ziq.
Yes but all outcasts are not equal. I'm happy to share a meal with communists, but I've got no interest wasting my time with extreme right-wingers.
That's very interesting. How do you think lemmy has evolved since that post?
Maybe they just don't have AI commenting like reddit does?
AI bad me no likey
We should go on strikey
I'll get my pikey.
It's really spikey!
Checked it out. I don’t think they will ever provide API support given how much they want to tie AI into things. The app feels clunky to me and the user base is high on Kevin Rose and Digg nostalgia. Also, they keep very tight controls on which communities can be created, so that limits the degree to which it can be community-driven.
I'll comment on that story on the screenshot
Printer with DRM-free ink
Uses HP cartridges
Those two sentences are mutually exclusive
Why leave Lemmy for Lemmy-Junior?
no plan for federation, and no guardrails to stop the slow slide into bloat
What would be an example of a guardrail to stop the slow slide into bloat?
I'm not asking for a detailed explanation, but I simply can't understand what sort of feature you're imagining.
I sort of get the idea that maybe you just mean that you're already seeing the beginnings of bloat, but if there was something that could actually stop bloat, that sounds very interesting.
I’m not an expert, but my understanding is that federation adds significant complexity to the system. Even simple features take careful planning, so there’s a natural friction that prevents new features from being added carelessly.
Decentralization's a good start.
Is it bad that I automatically don't take them seriously just based on their links to socials? Didn't even go for a Bluesky (let alone anything federated) and going for twitter and instagram like it's still 2019.