Reddit issues. I was also deciding between raddle.me Lemmy, kbin.social and Mastodon.
Let’s start with Reddit. I like it, but they came with the ridiculous API pricing. There are now protests due to that, and I support those. I used the official app, I used new Reddit website, theoretically it wouldn’t affect me, but that doesn’t mean I won’t care.
Mastodon: Seems like fediverse Twitter. Not interesting to me.
Raddle: The closest one to Reddit. The frontpage just has a bunch of memes centered around the same topic and political stuff. This makes it feel like a community rather than diverse social network. There are different communities (called forums) but there’s no way to search for them. You get alphabetically sorted list. That’s the biggest issue for me. I’ll keep an eye on it for the future.
kbin.social: Pretty much lemmy just with additional features. In fact it is even compatible with Lemmy. I just don’t know how to search up magazines from lemmy instances. I might try it too.
Lemmy: Overall seems the best. Communities, UI, usability. Next question is choosing instance. sh.itjust.works was simply easy to sign up on and I heard controversial stuff about lemmy.ml on Raddle and Hacker News. But this is just testing account. If I’ll settle for Lemmy, I’ll sign up on lemmy.sdf.org.
Reddit issues. I was also deciding between raddle.me Lemmy, kbin.social and Mastodon.
Let’s start with Reddit. I like it, but they came with the ridiculous API pricing. There are now protests due to that, and I support those. I used the official app, I used new Reddit website, theoretically it wouldn’t affect me, but that doesn’t mean I won’t care.
Mastodon: Seems like fediverse Twitter. Not interesting to me.
Raddle: The closest one to Reddit. The frontpage just has a bunch of memes centered around the same topic and political stuff. This makes it feel like a community rather than diverse social network. There are different communities (called forums) but there’s no way to search for them. You get alphabetically sorted list. That’s the biggest issue for me. I’ll keep an eye on it for the future.
kbin.social: Pretty much lemmy just with additional features. In fact it is even compatible with Lemmy. I just don’t know how to search up magazines from lemmy instances. I might try it too.
Lemmy: Overall seems the best. Communities, UI, usability. Next question is choosing instance. sh.itjust.works was simply easy to sign up on and I heard controversial stuff about lemmy.ml on Raddle and Hacker News. But this is just testing account. If I’ll settle for Lemmy, I’ll sign up on lemmy.sdf.org.
interesting, thanks for this thorough explanation