That’s great

i like having every post (from mastodon, lemmy, peertube, threads, pixelfed) in one single place

Have you tried http://fedia.io/ ? It has both Mastodon and Lemmy included in one place

Thanks for sharing, that’s another level

Thanks!

Yes, that’s also the big issue: migration.

While, to be fair, if LW moves to lemmy.world to piefed.world as the main site and keeps LW alive for archiving purposes, it should be okay. Discussions don’t go over for that long anyway.

If you’re still on reddit at this point, there’s nothing short of Spez showing up and killing your cat that’s going to make you leave.

There are a few reasons why people on Reddit prefer to stay there rather than move elsewhere

• the other place lacks content
• the other place does not have their specific niche communities
• Reddit is still okay to use

We are kind of working on the first one (and anyway, the only way to get content is to get more and more users)

For the second one, that’s something even harder to tackle. !newcommunities@lemmy.world tries to fill that gap, but same as above, it needs more users.

The third one is the most interesting. At some point in the future, Reddit is going to kill old.reddit. By that time, people will look for an alternative, and if they know about Lemmy, they’ll give it a try.

unless you’re better in some way that a normal person will care about.

Lemmy is better than Reddit on the following points:

• Third party apps actively developed
• No ads hiding as posts
• Cleaner web interfaces

It’s just not enough at the moment, as stated above.

the promise of seamless interop between my social apps was what brought me to the fediverse, so that’s the version of the fediverse I will pursue.

That’s fair.

For some other people the appeal of the Fediverse is to be able to manage the instances themselves, and Bluesky still isn’t there yet on that side (and probably won’t, as it would prevent them from generating revenue if someone can just open a server and connect to their network)

The homepage contains the communities (e.g. Lemmy): https://fedia.io/

The microblog page contains the… microblogs (e.g. Mastodon): https://fedia.io/microblog

That’s why I said it’s two different views, you can’t have everything at the same time, it’s one or the other

Agreed with most of your points

I also think recruiting new users might be a more useful use of time than trying to just rely on poaching them from somewhere else, but uh, I couldn’t tell you really how that should or could be done.

/r/RedditAlternatives is basically the one place we have now. We mention Lemmy there regularly, so hopefully over time it will work.

Even on Mbin, the microblogging and link aggregator are two different parts of the software.

If someone from Mastodon posts to an Mbin magazine, it would still look “out of the place” the same way it would in a Lemmy community

And frankly, if Mastodon devs don’t appear to care, why is everyone else so concerned about it?

Some people think that because Mastodon and Lemmy are both using ActivityPub, Lemmy could gain some users if Mastodon users could interact with Lemmy.

But this seems to overlook that microblogging and link aggregation are two very different ways to interact with content.

Reddit probably has the highest reserve for potential Lemmy users, just because they are more used to link aggregators.

Weird indeed

Threads doesn’t show up as an instance (https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon) nor as a software of its own

Reminder that as of now, there is no independent Bluesky server open for registration: https://feddit.org/post/2656676

The interoperability issues between Mastodon and Lemmy come from Mastodon, which doesn’t really seem interested in correcting that: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17008

I’m not suggesting that they should replace Lemmy as the backbone software of the threadiverse.

Interesting, because that’s what I could see happening once they catch up. Unfortunately that’s not for now.

I expect Sublinks to eventually overtake Lemmy since it’s being designed as a drop-in replacement, in a language better suited to web development than Rust.

Sublinks was announced in January 2024. We’re in September, and the 0.1 version still isn’t going to be released any time soon: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1/views/6

I was hopeful for Sublinks as well at the beginning, but it seems like it’s not going to be the one replacement a lot of people were waiting for.

At this point in time, I think Piefed has the highest chances at becoming a 1:1 Lemmy alternative. Development has been fast. Maybe in 6 months or a year it can really reach feature parity.

You walking away would be a net benefit at this point.

It’s not that obvious.

Who would take over Lemmy development? Mbin and Piefed are getting there, but still far from catching up (Piefed has no API so no apps, Mbin only has one app)

Lemmy is still missing some impactful features which might really make it a 1:1 Reddit alternative

• multicommunities
• Post flairs, which could then be filtered

In a scenario where we are only left with Mbin and Piefed, we would probably have to wait another year to get to where we are now with Lemmy.

They are on fedia.io

The last big Lemmy.ml admin drama was 3 months ago https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

• !privacy@lemmy.ml is still the most active community on that topic by far (8.4k monthy active user compared to around 900 for !privacy@lemmy.world and !privacyguides@lemmy.one )
• !unixporn@lemmy.ml has 865 mau, !unixporn@lemmy.world 244

It might happen at some point, but network effect is still a thing, and most people do not really care enough to move to less active communities

You would be losing a few open source communities in the process.

Some have alternatives, such as !linux@programming.dev for !linux@lemmy.ml , but !jellyfin@lemmy.ml is unique

Thank you, good luck !