I saw Jerboa while scrolling through random apps to potentially install, and became excited that finally there’s a REDDIT alternative as well, instead of just Twitter. Mastodon might be nice, but I don’t use Twitter, and I probably won’t use Mastodon, either. Reddit, on the other hand, oh man…
Reddit is honestly so important to the internet at this point that you’re trolling if you do web searches without “reddit” appended at the end (be it technological, physiological, historical, political, or any other type of topic that you’re looking for information or opinions about).
However… Reddit is going towards a terrible corporate direction, and something like Lemmy has been desperately needed for a while now, and I hope it can eventually somehow become the new “reddit” at the end of web searches eventually, as nobody knows what could happen to Reddit soon…
I find the most random, but also INCREDIBLY important and crucial bits of information deep within Reddit thread replies, since each one can go anywhere, no matter what the original post was about, such as finding out that fabric softeners are damaging for everything, especially humans, and that they should just generally not be used… on a gaming-related subreddit. Of course I start doing my research afterwards as well, now specifically regarding what I just learned to make sure and verify I know the correct information from multiple sources, but even just that initial random warning is great to start off with.
And the worst part? We might lose ALL of these things since we’re at the mercy of Reddit’s shareholders (even more so in the future, most likely), and these incredible resources and HUMAN EXPERIENCES that one shares, and MANY others learn from, could just… disappear…
A quick major policy change, and goodbye Reddit…
I’m looking forward to Lemmy taking off!
Reddit was my main content aggregator. I’ve had a Diaspora account for ages (I left FB years ago) but hadn’t gotten into the other #fediverse flavors outside of it. With Reddit gone from my life now, too, I’ve found that having a set of mastadon column feeds, a Diaspora stream, and now a Lemmy feed as well (alongside Hacker News and Phys.org) I think I’ve got enough standard content aggregation happening without it. Unfortunately that means my pinned tabs count is high (for me anyway), but oh well
I see that I am not the only one with plethora of pinned tabs to fediverse and otherwise FOSS platforms for content aggregation. But if you were trying to find any proprietary centralized platforms for this, you would come out empty-handed.
this might be a dumb question, but does Diaspora work well if you don’t convince a bunch of “real world” friends to join it as well? It doesn’t strike me as a place to follow strangers for example, but Mastodon (microblogging in general) and Lemmy seem more acceptable in that regard.
It works well when you have a lot of tags you’re following. Like a lot. Here’s an incomplete showing of all of my tags. When I switched, I didn’t have enough to generate enough turnover on my stream, so I relied mostly on other aggregators until I’d built up enough.
I used diaspora for years and years but at some point I gave up on it, maybe I should give it a go again. Anyway, I found that following interesting accounts was a lot more effective than following tags. Check out the public feed every so often, anyone who posts something fun or interesting, follow.
Thanks! I should give it a chance. It doesn’t seem dissimilar to a microblog, so my needs may already be met by Akkoma in that regard.