Don't use Reddit. It's a monopolistic shithole

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[–]neolib 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I think Lemmy is theoretically the best reddit alternative in this sense, as it's open source and federated. Also some foundation pays for development (see here: https://saidit.net/s/DecentralizeAllThings/comments/ad29/lemmy_v0170_release_20230131/1146k)

The devs themselves are fans of authoritarian states like China/Russia though, so main instance is not for everybody :)

https://exploding-heads.com/ is probably a good instance free speech-wise as that's where Wolfballs users moved (I didn't check it out yet though).

[–]bucetao6969 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What you mean federated

[–]neolib 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_(information_technology)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse

Basically this means different instances (servers) can talk with each other, and (in Lemmy case) you can have an account on one instance/server and leave a comment to a thread originated on another instance/server. Mastodon is a more well known example of a federated social network.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Collective P2P (peer to peer) networking to share access (logins) and content (data/databases).

[–]RaverJodes[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Lemmy seemed a bit dead to me, idk. If only all Reddit competition could link up to be a super site it might have some hope of competing with Reddit on some level. As it stands though we just get Reddit's banned users and not even all of them.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Can you set up a Lemmy instance or few?

[–]neolib 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No, I've never administered a website, just a theorist :)