Perhaps, experienced users of the suggested website could create posts that recommend it or its alternatives and provide explanations on how they function. This would help people better understand and determine if they find it appealing. Like you said, a list doesn’t help that much.
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People mostly seem to be talking about lemmy, kbin, and bluesky though.
Bluesky is invite-only and nothing like Reddit.
And while Lemmy and Kbin are mentioned quite a bit in some places, they don't seem to be well discussed yet, to say the least.
I get really annoyed about the acrid pushback because of Lemmy's creators, and I usually deflect to unaffiliated server hosts or if it's really strong, mention kbin since we all connect freely.
It's just so important to me that the migration goes to a federated platform and not another central one.
Which ones would you say are well discussed?
Tildes is, but it doesn't sound good to me.
I've actually only seen one mention of tildes. What is it?
Tildes is mentioned often as it seems to be the most visually like Reddit on first inspection. But it really isn't.
Their philosophy is totally different than Reddit. They want text posts only with only serious, long form discussion. No lighter topics like memes, which make up a humongous portion of content on Reddit.
It's invite only. You can't just easily sign up for it. Most people aren't going to try to find someone to ask for an invite when they can just click back to Reddit.
Unfortunately the RIF is Fun dev has picked Tildes to go to, which makes for even more people talking about it. But Tildes doesn't want to be a Reddit replacement at all. It wants to be a small, insular community with only serious, long form discussion.
None—it's all very chaotic. That's the problem. I don't know how to solve this.
I saw in another thread on here where people are saying reddit is deleting any mentions of lemmy.
Isn't breaking a monopoly a good thing?
Yes, but if it's too overwhelming, they're not switching from said monopoly!
You don't break a monopoly by directing everyone to the next monopoly.
Federated or not, you don't want everyone on one platform.
They don’t even have to be on Lemmy. Other platforms in the Fediverse (like Kbin) are compatible with us.
I hear the gaming subs are going to Discord. 😒
I don't understand how discord is even sort of similar - how can a live messaging app substitute for a forum?
You can make posts and create threads inside threads now. The tags and roles are pretty useful for a community too. Still, doesn't compare to an actual forum, especially since you can't vote or sort the comments.
They learned nothing.
lol rdrama is listed
I came to Lemmy because I was reading so much about it, but to be honest I don't understand the federation concept well yet or how it impacts usage. The UI and basic concept seems intuitive enough from registering a few minutes ago and joining a few communities and replying to messages, but I still need to learn more about how it works and hopefully someone (Christian maybe?) releases an app that does for Lemmy what Apollo did for Reddit.