Why not Lemmy? I think it’s way better than reddit. Unfortunately it lacks enough users. I don’t think starting from scratch will offer a better solution.

It really isnt better than reddit unfortunately. But it depends what you are looking for. If you want to find a replacement for a popular reddit community here, you are out of luck most of the time. But if you are happy with memes, you will like this place. Its chill and relaxed and has humor and no algorithms.

Its chill and relaxed and has humor and no algorithms.

that’s what makes it better. more communities would be easier to solve than on a brand new platform that doesn’t have any already.

That’s because people haven’t moved not because the tech isn’t good enough, just need the right instance and some advertising

Its definitly not chilled and relaxed. But I still like it

I guess because of server costs and stuff like that. I am sure Lemmy currently can’t handle the amount users Reddit has. And without ads there is no income stream of money to handle the costs.

Lemmy is also nerdy as fuck. Half of what is on here is Linux/selfhosting/AI tech bro nonsense. The average person has no interest in niche tech subs.

Isnt that the usual initial userbase? Your average person probably doesn’t go around trying new platforms.

Niche subreddits were the only worthwhile thing there. Lemmy completley superseded it in terms of FOSS. Other niches can follow.

I don’t disagree with you. Only time will tell if it will ever actually take off.

In my experience if you start a niche community and tend to it then people will eventually come and start filling it. Not as much as on the mainstreams but still enough.

My dude, what do you think reddit was, before it was Eternal September’d?

There were a lot more bio, history, and astrology nerds, too.

Perhaps that’s the crowd we should attract next. I’d read their posts

I have been on Reddit for a long long time.

it may lack the same number of users, that’s true but it means it’s largely bot and wanker free which is nice it may be slower but thats not a bad thing

It’s too complicated. People just wanna go to lemmy.com, sign up, and experience Reddit 2.0.

So why not go to lemmy.world and have that experience?

The funny thing is that when I go to lemmy.com, the first thing I see is a box with a button that I can click to sign up:

How much easier could it be?

I don’t honestly think reddit was any better than the old bulletin boards which themselves were just a variation on usenet newsgroups
any large site is going to end up in corporate control, that’s the sad and honest truth

There was initial good curation on the frontpage, and by that I mean it wasn’t product placements and right-wing or divisive narratives being pushed. You’d see people making sweaters or doing woodwork, an actual worldwide community of people building trust.

Lemmy is good, but it has no frontpage and suffers greatly as a result

I feel like without something like reddit, capital would try to worm its way into places like this, which would be disastrous if it was successful.

Which is literally why lemmy is the only possible replacement. It’s the only path for users to choose not an evil corporation. Hypothetically reddit could operate an instance, and we could all give them the finger and block/defederate from them. We have to foster the growth of niche hobby, community, and activity boards though. It can’t all be left leaning politics and meme shit posting. We need to encourage those who share expertise to come contribute. That lemmy is the defacto aggregate forum. It is the only form factor corporate ownership can’t swallow up.

Meta tried and failed with threads

I still refuse to join these, fuck meta

Never been more proud to be on the fediverse than when I saw the reaction to threads

For sure

The bots will eat Reddit and social media generally though

I think at least for the bigger and for the less niche communities moderation needs to be democratic.

The upvote brought democracy to content ranking. It’s possible to bring democracy to moderation.

And this will still leave the option of private despotic moderation available. Both styles of moderation can act as a check on each other. The same community can be reproduced twice, with private and with democratic moderation. Then if the tyrants are out of control you can escape to a democratically managed community. And if the so called “mob” is out of control and the privately moderated space is nicer, you can escape there. The whole system will eventuanly self-regulate to a nice daily hum.