Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon shoutout from Lifehacker: The Four Best Reddit Alternatives
As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more.
Lemmy does not have upvote and downvote buttons
But… it does?
Depends on the instance. Lemmy.One has downvoting turned off, for example.
(edit) Also, there are differences between posts and stories/blogs on the fediverse. On the stories/blogs you get an option to favorite/boost instead of upvote or downvote.
And since Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon all deal with it in slightly different ways, maybe they just got confused.
as a longtime mastodon user, tech articles about the fediverse are often very confused and under researched. it’s like tech reporters take one look at the websites and their brains shut off- if they ever even looked at them to begin with.
Tech Journalists being bad at thier jobs? Say it aint so!
Lemmy does not have upvote and downvote buttons
Huh?
Have an upvote.
Maybe we call them something else and we just don’t realize it?
Have an antigravity arrow.
Is that not what I was supposed to be calling them?
It feels really poorly researched. Like some instances disable downvotes like beehaw does but we still have upvoting.
I've been here for maybe a day now, so salt accordingly.
As far as I can tell, even though beehaw has downvotes disabled, since the instance I use has them enabled, I could still technically downvote you, at least in the UI.
You'd just never know and it would not show on your end or for anyone viewing from beehaw.org.
The part I'm not so sure about is if they would show for others on the same instance as me.
I think depending on where a third person would be viewing this thread from they would see different numbers of upvotes.
I certainly notice a few differences while reading from a different instance vs browsing the original instance directly.
Learning lemmy has been pretty interesting.
Kbin is everything wrapped into one. Threads = Post like Reddit, Microblogging = Like Twitter/Mastodon Magazines = Subreddits. Everything is perfect!
You say perfect, but my perfect platform doesn't have microblogging at all, so that feature missing would be the best.
My point being that perfect is subjective
I don't think being a super-app is a positive tbh.
I'd rather go to different spaces for different things
Tildes is another website trying to be the new Reddit.
Tildes is very much not trying to be a new Reddit. And certainly not the new Reddit.
Tildes has a clear vision for itself as a mature forum for long text-based discussions, with the trappings of a link aggregator.
There are no image posts (although posts may link to an image), and memes and shitposting are discouraged at best. There are also no user-created communities (subreddits) at this time - although there may be in the future.
If you enjoy old-style discussion forums, you'll probably enjoy Tildes - but it's certainly not trying to compete with Reddit, Lemmy, kbin, or anything else. It's doing it's own thing.
I’m on Beehaw, kbin, and Mastodon.
Wanted to try tildes, but found it wasn’t to my liking. However out of all of them, I prefer Beehaw/Lemmy to the others, but kbin is grabbing my interest.
Yeah; the thing I like about Lemmy is the lack of microblogging features. It keeps me sane.
Nice! Checking out KBin is on my to-do list, along with Mastodon and Matrix, going to be a fun weekend, ha.
I'm reading and replying to your comment on Kbin. The fediverse is fun.
@exscape That's probably the wildest thing I'm finding about all of this. Reading that as the top comment, from kbin.social.
I've been liking KBin a lot, I definitely recommend checking it out.
It’s been fun for me to exploring it. Still getting a feel for how it works but so far I’m enjoying kbin.
How are you gonna say “Four best” and name only THREE?!
I’m trying out Kbin, Sh.tjust.works, Mastodon and Beehaw. Time will tell which one becomes the front runner.
I use Mastadon as a Twitter replacement, even though it still can see other content. I like how there's not an apparent algorithm--it's all chronological and feels less pandering to what it thinks I want to see.
As for Reddit alternatives, I'm happy with Beehaw and Kbin. I hope they both stick around.
