Why do people on reddit seem to hate Lemmy/Mbin/other federated link aggregators?

submitted by Yingwu edited

I was just reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ and many barely see the fediverse as an alternative and they seem to have a negative bias towards it. Super ironic when it comes to the self-hosting community. Yes, some instances are problematic, yes, some devs might have had problematic views. But it doesn't really matter when it's federated and FOSS. I think it's clear-cut that the selfhosting community on Lemmy is a perfect alternative to reddit. Why is there such a negative bias?

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Avatar Blaze (he/him)

soon Sublinks will come too (January was at some point a target iirc?)

I wouldn't hold my breath. I keep an eye on the project Matrix, it's pretty quiet.

Piefed is much more promising.

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Avatar OpenStars

Thanks for the additional insight:-).

The PieFed devs indeed seem *very* responsive, and I have great hopes for it too.

Though I don't know if e.g. Lemmy.World would consider switching to use it as they were hoping to do with Sublinks. For it providing a "social media platform" it is coming along nicely even if currently lacking polish, though from the perspective of migration of existing content into... well perhaps that's doable as well but I definitely know far less about that:-).

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