The Four Best Reddit Alternatives

"Lemmy does not have upvote and downvote buttons"
uh... don't downvote me for posting this
- It's been a long time since Lifehacker has been reliable for even basic facts.
- What? I see and use upvote and downvote buttons in Jerboa
  
  Are you talking about these things? Those are escalation arrows, not upvote and downvote buttons, totally different.

For ppl who don't want to click the link (if using Memmy App) it's:
Lemmy, kbin, tildes and discord
- I don't see how discord is a replacement in any way.
  
  It says it's not so much a replacement, but rather you might want to use it if you want to follow a particular community irrespective of the platform/format. For example, right now there are several games whose communities are more active on discord servers than any of the other mentioned websites including reddit.
  
  For specialized communities or works pretty well.
  
  Discords can create their own forums, with static posts people can respond to in dedicated comment chains. I think the potential is there, but discovering discords you want to join is currently very difficult.
  
  Yeah Discord is chat rooms. Very different!
  
  you don't? it's literally reddit but with immediate responses.
- Pretty sure tildes has an issue with the admin turning a side eye to particular user accounts who bully people on the platform
  Though I learned that from someones comment on redddit in response to someone else talking about tildes and I can't be bothered to go and find it because it's reddit
  
  i was on tildes for a few months. anyone who offers any dissenting opinion, however mild, is harassed by the bullies on the sub and they the admin bans them for 'causing trouble'
  it's very much a 'say what everyone else says, or else' type of place. the admin wants it it to be his own little internet hugbox
- What’s wrong with opening the link on Memmy? I just did it and it worked fine
  
  nothing wrong but some just dont want to riskyclick like me... a mentality coming from reddit ;)
- Discord: home of the pedos
  
  And every single game developer, special interest group, streamer, and university study group.

lemmy
emailing myself
box wine
sleeping all day
- "bring mummy her box of wine, I'm checking Lemmy"

Switching to Discord is pointless. That's switching from a website controlled by one evil corporation to one controlled by a different evil corporation. Discord is still in hyper-growth mode, so they aren't going to be adding user-hostile features for awhile. Tilde has the same problem.
- Discord is still in hyper-growth mode, so they aren’t going to be adding user-hostile features for awhile.
  Outside of the username thing.
  
  I don’t like the username decision but it didn’t seem hostile to users. People seem to pick a username, update their server profile, and move on. My account is old enough that I picked my username pretty early in the process though.
  I agree that casual users likely found the discriminator confusing, though I never verbally shared my username with people. It didn’t seem like a strong enough reason to warrant the change.
  Why do you consider it hostile? I doesn’t seem like it has degraded the overall experience.
- Yep, it’s not searchable and just another corporation. It’s fine for certain things but it’s NOT a replacement for Reddit.

Oh? No up/down voting?
- Yeah, kinda reads like the writer didn't actually try out the services themselves.
  
  Probably confusing it with karma.
- Ahh crap, can I have my upvote back then?
  
  I already gave it to someone else :(
  
  Wish you could, but we can’t! There’s just no way!
- Where?

Lemmy
Lemmy
Lemmy
Lemmy
- I guess OP should have asked for 5. ;)

Tildes is invite-only, so it's not really much of an 'alternative' at all.
- As far as I can tell, it's another centralized platform as well? I'm hoping we learn from the mistakes of reddit and move back to a less centralized forum
  
  Yeah, it's just as centralized as Reddit.
  
  So pretty much useless sadly
  
  Yes. Might as well go back to reddit then going to another centralized platform.
  
  I don't disagree, but it's definitely a shame the decentralized platforms are hard for the average user. Most want a video feed, ease of use, and loads of content. While we are getting there with content, the other two are currently lacking.
  Hopefully we can make the ease-of-use thing a reality, it's not realistic to explain to non-tech people how to utilize Lemmy, kbin, etc. Most will lose interest really fast
- Can anyone get me an invite there. I love the super old school Reddit design
  
  I would if I had one, but I don't.
- If you like another 'just a website, not a federation' alternative then squabbles might be more interesting?
  
  I’ll see how it shapes up.

I wonder what the atmosphere at reddit HQ is like this week.
Phew we really fucked that up, but glad that's over! Now let's get back to finishing up these new mod tools and releasing a great mobile app and finally releasing the fix to the video player
-or-
fires! Spez-ssistant: "Mr. Spez, another investor is blowing up my phone all morning, can I transfer the call?" Spez: "No, hold my calls, I'm searching for a PR company. Did any of those other ones answer your emails yet?" Spez-ssistant: "No Spez, they all said they are too far booked out on this submersible company thing" Spez: "Dammit! What about our moderators?" Spez-ssistant: "Bad news, the top subs are full of literal buttholes and there is nobody to delete them now that we banned most of the mods" Spez: "What if I promote you and all your friends, can you guys stay on top of this for a while?" Spez-ssistant: "I just got an email from CircleJerk Securities, it says they are pulling out of the IPO!"
*Edit: I see that my battles with formatting will continue
- Spez: “What if I promote you and all your friends, can you guys stay on top of this for a while?” Spez-ssistant: “I just got an email from CircleJerk Securities, it says they are pulling out of the IPO!”
  You forgot the part where Spez-sisstant says "but if we exercise that much direct editorial control, we'll fall afoul of Section 230 and lose our DMCA safe harbor."
  (But then again, I'm probably giving too much credit to Spez-sisstant.)
- finally releasing the fix to the video player
  This has been so hopelessly broken for so long that it's basically become a meme of its own. It's been so broken for so long that its actually kind of impressive...in a bad way.
- More likely they are expecting this to blow over and people to return to reddit. This isn't the first-time people have called for a mass exodus and they are expecting it to go like it has before.
  
  Spez is looking to buy a tavern to rename it the Winchester. That way he can go down to the Winchester and have a pint and wait for this to blow over. And if Reddit's IPO forces him out for bad management, he can run the Winchester.
  
  Well how many people do you think actually left Reddit or care? Not counting the mods, maybe 0.1% of Reddit users???
- The second one

The irony is that reddit is creating its own competition - when before there was nothing.
Back tracking a few years when digg began to self-destruct, reddit was, in fact, a viable competitor.
Reddit never had a competitor until reddit itself, through the sheer incompetence of its gaslighting CEO, forced the creation of multiple (now) viable competitors.
- yes and no: lemmy released in 2019, so let’s not sell the fediverse short! people decided that a federated forum-like platform should exist irrespective of reddit’s current implosion!
  i think it’s important to acknowledge that these platforms exist not only because of reddit's incompetence: they have value regardless (ie, even if reddit does a 180 ;) )!
  edit: of course you’re totally right that reddit has helped to make the platforms viable competition with their exodus
- Voat came out in 2014 and was kinda big for a while. I used it for a few weeks, but activity started dying down and I didn't think about it again until I found out it was being shut down in 2020. The Wikipedia article says many of the users migrated from subreddits on the right of the political spectrum, so maybe that's why.
  This time it's different, though. The recent drama affects way more than just a couple subreddits.
- Reddit never had a competitor until reddit itself
  4chan is a competitor, a shitty alternative, but still a competitor

Not being able to make an account on tildes kinda stopped me from even giving it a chance. Like I get they have valid reasons, but I want to curate my content and be able to be able to make the occasional comment.
- Has Tildes gotten better?
  Last time I used it the site felt like it was dead and pointless.
  
  Well recent events have certainly made it seem more active.
- Last time I looked at Tildes you had to email an actual person with your password to set it up or change it.
  
  I signed up for it a couple weeks ago. I just sent an email to ask to join them he sent me a sign-up invitation. I didn't send him a password or anything of the sort.

- Yeah this is an awful and thrown together article.

Squabbles.io looks pretty slick too
- I set up an account on Squabbles but I hope Lemmy/Kbin really take off as I would much rather not deal with another company.
  
  Indid too but it hasnt really clicked with me the way Lemmy has. I sppent a little time in there, and its super slick love the UI, seems to hve a lot of active ontact coming up, but it also seemed pretty heavy on memes. I'll still checknit out some more though. I like trying new stuff
- But aren't Squabbles and Tilde both not federated, and therefore potentially subject to changes or even an IPO by the owners?
- is squabbles federated?
  
  No, I don't believe so.
  
  It is not. It is openly a business bet by the dev/admin. I was on it for a bit. It’s not a bad community at all, but honestly most of my subs on Reddit aren’t either.
  If I were going to subject myself to the whims of someone’s business plan, then all drama aside, it might as well be Reddit’s, at least until the place actually crumbles.
- There is also Raddle.me i stumbled upon, but i think i prefer lemmy/kbin still

Discord
Well, three out of four ain't bad.
- Why does discord look like a mess. I just can't get into it. The UI/UX seems off.
  
  It is getting messier. They just did a complete UI overhaul about a year ago. The logo is worse and there's more Nitro ads, but ultimately it's still the same experience it ever was. A more feature rich IRC.

From that article it seems like Lemmy has the best shot of replacing reddit! Not only was it listed first, it’s description was the most approachable.
- I think it's relatively redundant in the fediverse which wins because all federeated instances reep the benefits of eachother (except I think maybe tildes)
- It's because Lemmy's the most Reddit-like out of the alternatives, and anyone can make an account. It's gonna be confusing for a while (especially the whole concept of the fediverse) but this might be our best shot at preventing the overcentralization that all these dotcom moguls are trying to peddle.

Didn't find a good mobile app for kbin so lemmy it is for me!
- The webapp is good enough for me. (for lemmy)

minecraft lemmy kbin maplestory

As far as I am concerned it's just Lemmy/Kbin for life.
- I at least agree that it's definitely Lemmy/Kbin for now.
  I'm not completely sure about "for life," though, just because it's too soon to be sure that ActivityPub will be resilient against all threats and won't need to eventually need to get replaced with something even more corporation-resistant (e.g. fully peer-to-peer, or perhaps even a darknet).

i hope sync also supports kbin, im ride or die sync
- Supposedly the dev confirmed kbin support was coming "eventually" on discord
  https://www.reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy/comments/14g8eix/qwillsyncforlemmybeabletohandle/