What are the drawbacks of each lemmy instance for the more popular lemmy instances? In particular the way they are run? And who runs them? Although I understand content is federated, I don't want an account at an instance I later regret.

Getting banned from Reddit is getting on my nerves especially when I didn’t do anything wrong , so wanna switch , I want discussions about anime , Web series , K drama , movies , sports .

I was using Lemmy for a month almost completely and I found myself battling communists and pro soviet or even Russia sympathisers at every step. As a country recovered from soviet influence it was super annoying and I couldn’t help to view these people as drooling idiots despite my enormous benefit of doubt and openness to discussion.

I think I give up because no matter the instance it’s always the same. Some insane unsavoury radical left narrative permeates the site deeply. Even the innocent tech news on world instance there is massive swarm of people making it all political and in the cringy ways. So suddenly instead of having discussion of some interesting tech now we have Russia vs USA and other garbage which is fine in some comms but it litters literally everything.

I suspect the ml devs foster this and that was their goal since the start.

So I keep looking for the alternatives it seems for now or will keep to beehaw.org local feed maybe.

I can't figure out news blur for the life of me

because they are similar is the same website just out of curiosity?

I recently discovered it. It seems semi-active and there are other topics than arts and site itself.

Hi! I'm curious if any Reddit alternatives have NSFW spaces, like r/dirtyr4r or similar subreddits? Have any of the NSFW subreddits migrated to other platforms? Thanks!

I am asking about platforms like 9gag (memes) or Quora(questions) or Kialo(discussion).

I am looking for platforms that is very focused on 1 thing.

Id like to apologize because I know this gets asked kinda frequently.

What I’m looking for specifically: ideally an instance that has little to zero interest in being political. Or favoring either side of the political spectrum. An instance that promotes having fun above all else.

The issue I’ve come across, (as have many) is the interesting communities on Lemmy I’ve subscribed to aren’t active. I do in fact post a lot from them to encourage activity. But so far not much luck I hope that changes though

Are there any fun nonsense type instances that are more about having a good time and less about politics ?

Thanks in advance

its like it's either one or the other extremes these days. i just want a chill space to talk about my topics of interests without dealing with lowlife tryhard neckbeards, heavy censorship but also without the neo nazi maga qanon bullshit.

I am looking for alternatives to

🔹Facebook

🔹Twitter

🔹Instagram

🔹Tumblr

Does anyone know of any?

I enjoy the whole different communities you can join kind of thing on reddit the most. Being in communities where you have similar interests and etc. I would like it to have a decent amount of people that use it as well. Not like 10 people who use the alternative. Nothing politics related which seems to be an issue I have seen in some of the posts .

...where the algo didn't encourage posts that would enrage me (lol.)

I am very centered politically/socially so I stay away from what I feel are super liberal / super conservative sources.

Impressive human achievement videos - some crossposts, but not as many as you would think:
r/nextlevel
r/nextfuckinglevel
r/BeAmazed

Also, I did a bunch of research to find different sites that should have been Reddit's successor in the Slashdot > Digg > Reddit RSS Feed /w comments category. Most results are RSS feeds, some with low user counts (and some from this sub!)

Ordered by what I feel is most relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
https://feedly.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
https://beehaw.org/?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=Active

Not sold on either of these yet:
https://tildes.net/ (invite only)
https://lobste.rs/

There's a new community based website that's been getting some traction on the interweb recently. It's called Just About.

https://justabout.com/

I wouldn't necessarily call it a "Reddit Alternative", but it's not exactly a "Forum" either... It's a bit of a mish-mash between the two.

The admin team have outlined their roadmap for the site, and have a number of exciting developments in the pipeline over the next few months.

https://justabout.com/just-about/presenting-the-just-about-2023-roadmap

Oh... And there's also a Youtube video which gives some (much needed) information about the site.

https://youtu.be/JbEND2kXfsE?si=sFAifz06_toSXL2w

Long before I was using Reddit in 2013 under a different username, I was quite active on a number of discussion forums. The main forums I used were the SpaceBattles, SufficientVelocity, and AlternateHistory forums. Most of my interest are around fiction, gaming, science and technology. It seems like whenever I go to a forum now, it looks like every forum is in the process of being dead or dying. When I sometimes look through a forum I'll see how many members are online and I'll see at most 10 people. It seems like every site is mostly just Reddit, Discord, Quora, Stack Exchange, or Facebook groups. I want to know are there any forums out there that are still active that have at least 1,000 members or 1,000+ posts a day?

Tildes: A totalitarian platform surpassing Reddit in terms of censorship, with admin-sanctioned shadow banning and suppression of dissenting opinions.

Scored: A right-wing echo chamber where admins actively support silencing opposing views.

Lemmy: The platform suffers from a flawed codebase, and its developers show no inclination to address or enhance it.

Saidit: An seemingly abandoned website, with no clear indication of ongoing development, as evidenced by the outdated git repository.

Raddle: A defunct platform with an inactive codebase, showing no signs of life.

Trust Cafe: The website is extremely slow, and its target audience is unclear.

Discuit: Although showing potential, their growth is sluggish, and a more user-friendly front-end would have been appreciated.

Arete.network: A literal Nazi forum, its inclusion in the pinned post is perplexing and unwarranted.

I’m not right wing or left wing really, I just like people being able to joke and say whatever they want. I’m just so tired of how purposefully shitty reddit is continuing to make its self

It's FB of course, so no good if you're avoiding tracking. But for anyone like me who prefers to be able to just chat about topics, it is starting out pretty great. The algorithm is doing a very good job at showing me threads related to things I've said or reacted to and it has all been entirely focused on discussion. A con for me is all the people just using it to advertise, but it is part of insta so to be expected. I'm hoping I'll see less as the algorithm has more data

*the people there are kinder and happier too, I'm finally out of this toxic hateland

If find the left wing agenda on Reddit really repressive. I have been banned from multiple sub Reddits and constantly had my posts removed by admins because I have conservative, libertarian and right wing sensibilities. I am happy for other people to follow the mainstream and for them to be the standard Reddit user communist & socialist archetype but I would like to find a platform where I'm allowed free speech and to engage in humourous shit posting.

*I've signed up to Lemmy and their Warhammer 40k community but it seems to have a small user base.

i have recently posted at https://discuit.net/Leftism/post/XCB0jD5k on the topic of societal coersion and experienced an unfair treatment by a discuit admin who would not even let me speak out, the person just told me to drop the topic and closed three times posts where i was asking to openly talk about the issue

https://discuit.net/Leftism/post/uIjeVnLw

https://discuit.net/Collapse/post/fHj6Zzgq

https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/U50QqGCi

i would like to protest against how i was radically blocked from explaining my viewpoint

i have not insulted anyone, i have not used any rude language, i have not done any harm but simply explained how i understand myself and my position in this world, how i relate to other felllow human beings

Someone posted a list of many of the bloggers who frequent Blue Dwarf, https://bluedwarf.top/cackle/view-post.php?post_num=2909, and I was surprised to realize that the site is becoming something of a hang-out for bloggers. That makes me very happy because I can think of few better uses for a small social media site than promoting independent blogging.

Any websites that collect and update lists of active forums on different topics?