the fediverse is the most popular reddit alternative.
the individual platforms, like lemmy, are a part of an ecosystem.
i have nothing but anecdotal evidence to go off of but just today i saw a lemmy post used as a source in a news article, which i can't say i've ever seen of any other "link aggregator" aside from reddit. so it's certainly up there!
and like others said, the activitypub interoperability certainly helps. i'm an mbin user but i'd wager more than half of my subscribed "magazines" are actually lemmy communities
I saw Lemmy on an Instagram meme page, and I haven't seen any other reddit alternative (unless you count 4chan technically)
404media is exactly the site I would expect to be aware of Lemmy among the semi-mainstream tech outlets (along with TheVerge to a lesser extent).
Along with the compatible platforms like PieFed, Mbin, Friendica, nodeBB, etc., this seems to be the biggest general-purpose with communities
It's nice that we can all work together. And the networking effect helps out quite a bit. We are not in competition, we are a collaboration.
The most popular Reddit alternative is day drinking and screaming racist abuse at passers by on the street.
You don't even have to register!
I'm in
As far as the Fediverse goes, yes. I looked into kbin a while back, and it looked promising, but Lemmy had a huge start and it seems like kbin’s development has halted.
kbin lives on via the community fork mbin! Ernest was great, but he got sick and overwhelmed ): hope he's doing okay.
Considering that Lemmy and kbin/mbin (and now Piefed) federate with each other, do they really count as separate Reddit alternatives anyway? It's just all the same Threadiverse.
Well there's Dread, the most active subdread has almost 500k subscribers
I forgot abou that years ago
Atleast of which i know of and its good enough i guess. Its not perfect but its all i got and its not horrible so i'll take it.
lemmy, mbin, piefed all aggregate the same stuff and its all reddit like. people make places to discuss particular things.
Not exactly the answer to the question but I do want to comment that I think a lot of people went to sites that aren't Reddit-like if they left Reddit. My husband went to Bluesky.
I'm pissed that so many people went to Bluesky instead of Mastodon
Less people on Mastodon, to me, means that the Mastodon community is more purposeful across their instances. Less bloat/spam/etc
I like Bluesky a lot, but it's more a Twitter replacement than Reddit. Harder to talk to dedicated communities for things on there. Like if want show recommendations, I'd rather go to a community/subreddit that has 92k members than asking the 80 followers I have on Bluesky (only like 10 or less aren't bots I'm pretty sure or would even see my post) with the small chance a couple non-followers would see it and maybe comment.
For sure. If you check out the subreddit for alternatives it’s basically: posts advertising Lemmy, posts complaining about Lemmy, and posts for new alternatives with like 5 users, typically by the founder who appears to be engaged in some get-rich quick scheme.
Oh and people who for some reason buy the BS from Digg.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Digg is returning to something resembling its OG days.
It's being led by the unusual partnership of Alex Ohanian (one of 3 co-founders of Reddit, better than Huffman), and Kevin Rose (Digg founder).
They bought back the rights and are building it now. It may end up being more popular than reddit.
It has some flaws like a lot of ai built in, forced ai tldrs you cant turn off, daily leaderboards for top posters/commenters, but I still like it more than reddit's current form, but thats prob becuase it isnt public yet
It is NOT difficult to build a superior product right now. But you're battling the legal side of Big Tech's takeover to get infrastructure/marketing. Enshittification demands that the people can't find the incentive or will to leave, and were firmly there as society.
Ah you got the early access for a couple bucks? I'm bummed I missed the window.
I have a lot of things to say having been in the software, journalism domain and thought heavily about conceptualizing what such a platform may look like for the betterment of society. Jimmy Wales has been trying, too. Was on their discord for a bit but I was a little skeptical of their direction, even if noble.
My guess would be redlib as the most popular. It lets you read Reddit without having to turn off your VPN or log in.
I wouldn't really consider that an alternative but that is probably more popular than lemmy
I'm here but I'm also still on Fark after 25 years.
"b00bies"
I’ve looked on and off for a couple years now and Lemmy has the most momentum that I’ve seen.
There is lobste.rs which I see in Google search sporadically, but I think that is because it favors common domains and Lemmy content is spread out over thousands of indivdual domains
Most popular, probably, but that doesn't mean it's popular. There are some old phpBB forums with more users than all of Lemmy combined.
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