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is something better than lemmy?
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this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026
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As nobody else mentioned it there is https://lemmyverse.net/communities to search for communities across instances.
I'm aware how finicky it sometimes is to subscribe to new communities on other instances. The fediverse (Lemmy+PieFed+Mastodon+everything else) has some technical quirks but for me its a small price to pay for an unbuyable platform.
The obvious problem is that niche comms are not active. I feel like this comes from people expecting or even emulating the same experience as on reddit. But before we even create new niche comms. We should use the more broader ones even if the more broader one is casualconversation or something generic like that. Even some half dead forums feel alive cause they have like only 4 different places to post. And is also how reddit started but people are forcing it to be like it is right now.
And to answer your question no not that I'm aware of :)
There is https://lobste.rs/ which seems to be working well mostly because its invite only. Truth be told Lemmy will eventually also have to close registration and have an forced application form. If we want to keep it as human as it is right now. Don't think there is any other way of dealing with bots that are eventually going to hit us.
There is also https://tildes.net/ which is less active but more moderated. They also have only broader comms because its more opinionated.
But they all do not federate which is in my eyes a deal breaker. The mods are probably alright but having the option to move instance while keeping most connections and communities only changing the server owners that control what you see is a game changer for me. It even made me post way more than I ever did on reddit because I feel like its more sustainable. You feel like you are part of the network more than on any other platform, because nobody really owns anything. That is what makes this place so special :)
@vogi @Galaxynowy lemmy is too ideological which make federation a drawback not an advantage.
You writing from Mastodon where I definitively agree that federation is more apparent. I stopped using it myself because of that. But on the "threadiverse" I feel like its different as everything is naturally a bit more centralized through the existence of communities. which makes the switch from Reddit to Lemmy not as jarring as Twitter to Mastodon.
EDIT: oh just realized i completely ignored your point... I do not really see it though to be honest. Sure if you are on .ml it will be ideological, but thanks to federation I do not have to.
@vogi other instance are also ideological like world is generally screwed toward liberal centrist
But... So is Reddit. Here the importance isn't really the ideology of the instance, but that of the community. If an instance's ideology clashes with a community in the instance, the community can migrate. If you don't vibe with the ideology of the community, you can pick others.
In Reddit you'd have liberal centrist subreddits, more conservative, more socialist, more communist and so on, here those communities are divided in instances, but most instances share with basically all the others so for an user it doesn't really matter.
@fushuan we where supposed to solve what reddit did bad, "and so is REDDIT" is a terrible argument and again instance can defederated from each other what if the instance you migrate to also get defederated or defederate from another that have communities you are interested in?
Um. That communities have ideologies is something shared by everything, and not something that Reddit did bad. It's not something to be fixed, it's life.
If instances get defederated from each other feel free to join one that won't do that. Idk.
There's a reason some instances are defederated with each other, mainly that admins were fed up with managing spam.
@fushuan how are you sure they won't do it?
I don't care that much for it but if you are that freaking paranoid, feel free to spin an instance yourself god damn. You can be the admin of your own instance.
@fushuan why are you so soft and can't handle different views?
Bruh I saw the "ok cultist". I even gave you a solution. Stop projecting, have a good day.
Yea, I guess you are right. But I do not think that this is something the federation aspect amplifies, you could say that over legacy social media as well. They are all skewed towards some ideology over another.