Long time reddit is fun user and now I feel lost but I feel moving on is the right thing, I was wondering how do I find community spaces like there were on Reddit?

    • Hyperreality
      1•1 year ago

      Yep. Don’t forget you’re not limited to lemmy instances.

      I’m on Kbin and follow this lemmy community from there. Commenting/reading with my kbin account and on kbin’s site. But like I don’t have to limit myself to kbin, you don’t have to limit yourself to lemmy.

      Which takes some getting used to. Hell, apparently you can access lemmy through mastodon(the fediverse twitter alternative). Apparently that sucks, but it is possible. Kbin -> Lemmy works great though.

      Caveat: both lemmy and kbin are still in beta/alpha. So bugs are still being fixed as we speak. Unlike reddit it’s taking the people running these instances weeks not decades to fix though.

      TLDR: it all takes some getting used to, there’s still work to be done, but it’s already better than reddit in many ways.

      • @[email protected]
        1•1 year ago

        Yeah, I think it’s ideal that we use multiple types of software (not just multiple instances of the same software). IMO it’s good to have multiple “competitors” (really they’re more collaborators than competitors) because it drives innovation, gives more options, and while forking is always an option, it can be hard to get the ball rolling on actually using some fork.

        Personally, I think the kbin dev is really great and started on kbin largely because of that. But right now, Lemmy has more features, fewer bugs, and much better mobile support, so I’m largely shifting to it at least for now (but would probably go back to kbin once/if it has feature parity for the features I care about). I also like how kbin has support for subscribing to or blocking entire domains as well as Mastodon style “micro blog” support (which it calls posts – I hope that gets renamed cause it’s confusing). But Lemmy has mobile support and collapsible comments.