What are some kbin or Lemmy alternatives to common Reddit subs?
I’ll certainly miss r/unexpected, r/guitarlearning, r/damnthatsinteresting, r/historymemes and many more
Hopefully this can turn into a useful thread for everyone looking to replace Reddit with a close enough experience, and maybe even a better one once it gains traction
Here are some I have found:
- m/TodayILearned
- m/showerthoughts
- m/mechanicalkeyboards
- Memes@lemmy.ml
- Gaming@beehaw.org
- Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml
- Rust Programming@lemmy.ml
- Technology@beehaw.org
Up top, if you hit “Magazines” it gives you a list of magazines on Kbin, sorted by subscriber count. You can find recreations of common Reddit communities here. There’s also a search function to look for a particular magazine. These are the ones you mentioned:
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@unexpected (mobile link) - doesn’t appear to have a Kbin equivalent yet. Note that because federation is currently off it’s not showing all the posts
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@guitar (mobile link) - not learnguitar, but close
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@historymemes (mobile link) - another one without a Kbin equivalent ATM
As for other suggestions, I’m a bit biased. I moderated /r/Disneyland on Reddit, and I’ve recreated it here on Kbin alongside some of the original mod team: @Disneyland (mobile link). I didn’t moderate /r/modeltrains… but I saw there wasn’t any model train communities on here, so I decided to create @modeltrains (mobile link).
As far as things I don’t moderate, here’s a bunch of cool communities I’ve found here on Kbin. Note that Kbin magazines are case-sensitive (something I’d wish they’d change):
If you see something in here you like but there’s no content in it - content comes from users like you!
Be the change you wish to see. Contribute something - anything - to get the community going. If everyone pitches in soon enough communities will start thriving.
Once federation is turned back on, will the magazine list show the federated magazines and their subscriber count too? Or is that list local to this instance only?
It only shows the subscribers that belong to this instance. But yes, every federated magazine will be shown.
Maybe this doesn’t matter, but if magazines are unique between instances, how will we know if we are patronizing the most active magazine? E.g., Lemmy has, I dunno, @factorio, and Kbin has @factorio, is there an easy way to tell which one is more active?
Further, I saw a diagram floating around that suggested that magazines between different instances of Kbin are also unique. E.g., @factorio @kbin.social is unique from @factorio @fedia.io? Isn’t that the same fragmentation as accessing different forums?
Wouldn’t mind an ELI5.
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