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I want lemmy to succeed but reddit is still alright (as long as it allows you to use the old interface in a web browser). Won't delete it in the forseeable future
My guy the Reddit admins actively try to lie about and gaslight the community, even after evidence is publicly stacked against them, Reddit is far from "alright".
Reddit.com is more than just the people running it.
"banned because of spam" go brrr
It's not gaslighting, just regular old lying.
"No, that phone call that was publicly released is wrong, Apollo dev is the devil"
Sounds like gaslighting to me.
Sounds like you don't understand the concept.
From Webster's dictionary:
Gaslighting - noun: the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaslighting definition 2
Sounds like YOU don't understand the concept.
Give this a read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/04/15/gaslighting-definition-relationship-abuse-response/
Are you saying there isn't an abusive relationship between Reddit's mods and community?
Can you please be more butthurt?
The only reason I reluctantly keep my account is because of a few niche communities I lurk and sometimes comment in. And I'll add that Reddit is usable thanks to the old interface + uBlock Origin and third-party apps on mobile (and we all know what's happening next); I'd call it "alright" just as a euphemism for "not (yet) as bad as Facebook or Instagram".
What are the alternatives? I can tell you that lemmy is and probably never will actually be a viable alternative
With that attitude it won't be.
There really are no viable, slipstream alternatives. The only entities with the resources to spin up a massive, centralized social link aggregator and community-based discussion system would be a handful of companies in big tech (Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet/Google, etc.), and none of them have platforms that are appropriately analogous to reddit. Even if they did, three weeks to migrate and onboard millions of users is a tall order.
Lemmy is the closest thing I've found so far in terms of a similar experience and UX, and while it's still pretty rough around the edges (mainly in terms of UX and infrastructure redundancy), the decentralized nature enables it to scale horizontally without requiring resource expansion for a single player. It definitely needs some work to optimize instance implementation and capacity-based promotion, but I believe it has a lot of potential.
You're in for a disappointment