Lemmy now has over 2M users across 915 instances

• Lemmy

  1,603 12,815 9.8 Rust

  🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse

  

There is plenty being done to address usability issues. Development activity exploded when Reddit announced the API changes (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/commit-activity) and usability issues are discussed daily. Reddit's usability issues were (and are) glossed over by third party apps to this day.

• kbin

  74 755 9.8 PHP

  A reddit-like content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• sub.rehab

  53 96 9.1 TypeScript

  A list of subreddit alternatives

- https://browse.feddit.de/

An index of subreddit migrations, both official and unofficial community spinoffs to subscribe to:

- https://sub.rehab/

A list of alternative clients for mobile, desktop, and web browsers:

- https://lemmy.world/post/465785

• awesome-fediverse

  5 456 5.9

  A curated, collaborative list of awesome Fediverse resources

It's always the same comment: X is different from A, therefore X is not a good replacement for A.

The whole point of federation is to avoid the problems we're seeing with Facebook, with Instagram, with Reddit, with Twitter: control over your internet content. Not having a mega-corp bent on maximizing profits and using you as a milking cow, but instead have a say and have actual power in how communities are built and managed. It is 100% expected that Lemmy or KBin is different from Reddit. You say that's not a good user experience, but I challenge that assertion: I say it's not a bad UX, but it's a different UX, and you don't want to change. Well, if you don't want to change, stay on Reddit, that's not a problem. But if you're going to investigate what the fediverse is, please learn what it's about, how it's built. Don't expect to find the same old world you know, that's on purpose !

> It makes no sense to me at all

You're on HN, a forum where members pride themselves in being intelligent enough to dig around, learn by themselves, be different, hack around. You haven't made efforts understanding how the fediverse works, or why it's different, and your conclusion is _not_ that you should investigate, but that you should complain that it's too different. I don't understand this reasoning.

I think an issue in the mentality in this forum is that people mostly expect products, ie a package that is made by an entity and that is served to users. The package is expected to be complete, shiny, wonderful, the entity is expected to do whatever it takes to convince users. It's an asymmetry that is completely opposite to the whole concept of being a hacker, which is supposed to be the H of HN.

Here's a good post explaining what the fediverse is about: https://medium.com/@VirtualAdept/a-friendly-introduction-to-...

And here are a few links and resources if you want to go deeper: https://github.com/emilebosch/awesome-fediverse

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