Is Lemmy a replacement for Reddit or just something different?

Before Reddit was Digg. Before Facebook was MySpace. Before Mastodon there was Twitter. Before Lemmy there was Reddit. It's fair to say that each of these sites was or is going to be replaced. The time it takes for the migration is typically slow as the new system gains traction and features. I don't believe they are direct replacements. If there was a copy of the existing site there would be no need to leave. Lemmy is different. Lemmy replaces a need not a site.

When I was growing up the internet was created by the people. Corporate sites were rare and far between. They didn't dominate. People would visit Geocities, Newgrounds, IRC, etc. The biggest players were AOL for chat and Yahoo for sports, news, & search. No site was perfect and beautiful and people didn't care. It was wonderful. This all changed.

It feels almost instant; however, I believe it was slow. Sites like Facebook promised to be the people's network. Youtube took over as this amazing video hosting service. No more Flash! People thought the rough edges of the internet were over. They traded their personal information for free sites. They didn't know what they were giving up.

Over time these "small" sites became the Internet. 5 sites now are the internet to some people. It's time for the internet to return to the people like it was before. Rough & personal.

Lemmy replaces that need people have to connect on common topics and to gather news. It's the newspaper of the people.

Lemmy isn't a Reddit replacement... it is filling a need that Reddit has failed to fill. Reddit became like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Youtube. It wanted to be more than what people wanted it to be. It changed, so people are leaving. The fediverse is the future. It's time to take the internet back!

cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/253571

Why isn't anyone talking about this? It looks like Meta wants to compete with Twitter with a new Instagram microblogging app which will probably be compatible with Mastodon

Key Point of the article:

*“Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon,” Instagram’s slide says. “Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow and interact with your profile and content if you’re public, or if you’re private and approve them as followers.” *

The Verge - This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/49400

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/83649

A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1372067

I've been waiting for this to be made by someone! Finally.

Extension to make it easy to interact with different Lemmy communities

Would it be fair to say that Lemmy is just a client of the fediverse? Technically, someone could create a new client that interfaces with Lemmy perfectly on ActivityPub.

Seems like we should be pushing fediverse not just Lemmy.

I'm trying to come up with a simple way to explain how it works. How to describe data masters and such.

How do you explain it to people? I see many very long posts or huge infographics that are too overwhelming to catch someone's interest. I want to make it simple.

Elevator-pitch type stuff with pictures.