cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/AskKbin/t/313215

So obviously a lot of us are partial to kbin/Lemmy but have any of you explored the other alternatives like Raddle, Squabbles.io, and Tildes?

I made an account on Raddle because r/egg_irl and r/ennnnbyyy moved there and I also made one on Squabbles.io because some of the subreddits I joined had an analogous one on Squabbles.io. I haven’t use either enough to form a good opinion on them. Raddle seems to be predominantly political, and I’m trying to limit my exposure to politics and prevent doomscrolling.

What are your thoughts on these alternatives?

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
    331·
    11 months ago

    I haven’t used any of them, and I doubt I will ever bother with centralised social media again. Some places I’ll keep a presence on, but I won’t ever meaningfully engage or invest with centralised stuff. The combination of lack of will to protect minorities and the ability to just lose everything at once, just isn’t something I want to deal with anymore.

    • maegul@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Yea … this! It’s the big picture here. The multiple platforms that are FOSS, with each of their instances being completely separate … it’s a non-trivial amount of freedom you can’t get anywhere else, not to mention the potential for it (or its idea) to continue to grow and evolve.

  • Encode1307@lemm.eeEnglish
    181·
    11 months ago

    I liked squabbles, but it has the same vulnerabilities as reddit or any other social networking site. Lemmy appealed to me because of it’s decentralized, federated nature.

  • kimpilled@infosec.pubEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    Centralized communities all turn into what Twitter and Reddit became eventually. They benefits for the owners (money, control) are too great to ignore forever once you’re big enough. Decentralized communities have more resilience, provided no individual server gets too big.

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
      3·
      11 months ago

      This is a problem that can arise with Lemmy. If everybody signs up to lemmy.world, it can become so big that everybody will sign up to that instance and they can break the federation at any time.

  • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
    10·
    11 months ago

    When i was in squabbles, it was flooded by people making self posts that were obnoxious and super cringe, where they mainly talked about how they are the first people there and part of greatness. Or some girls who needed so much attention that they made 5 posts an hour, that was heavily upvoted, because girls. It was basically a worse version of facebook

    • flicker@kbin.social
      5·
      11 months ago

      Every single week they have some stupid bullshit drama I just can’t get interested in. Last week I logged in and posted saying something about how every single time I check the site there’s drama, and one of the people who replied to me was exactly the kind of person you described trying to tell me that there’s not that much drama.

      I almost pulled a “this you” because less than an hour ago they’d posted that they were soooo depressed over the drama, but… not worth it. Also they posted five times that hour so you nailed the estimate exactly.

      I’d say it’s worse than Facebook at this point.

  • SmoothSurfer@lemm.ee
    6·
    11 months ago

    I am using tildes, and compared to lemmy it’s community is small. But I love it because of this. Since community is small I feel like I really am a significant part of the community.

  • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.comEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    I’m partial to the fediverse, I don’t want to be the product. I moved away from Google for that reason. And when it became obvious that Reddit was more akin to Google than say Wikipedia then my hand was forced.

  • Eigengrau@kbin.social
    6·
    11 months ago
    • Squabbl(es|r) : Personally found UI ugly , had bit obnoxious branding IMHO , apparently there was weird drama on there . As of writing this it got renamed Squabblr . Removing “e” from “(.*)er” ? sooooo 2007 ‼️
    • Raddle : Not anarchist, so just not for me (am leftist but don’t identify with it specificly)
    • Tildes : Extremely basic UI, otherwise know nothing and don’t care to
  • MonsieurHedge@kbin.social
    5·
    11 months ago

    Tildes is a hideously ugly walled-garden circlejerk from the little I’ve seen of it, Squabblr.co seems neat but is very low-population (and without the fedi crossover I’m not sure if it’ll survive), and I’ve never even heard of Raddle before this.

  • trimmerfrost@lemm.ee
    51·
    11 months ago

    No opinion. Because I never used them. I guess they would be boring because of lack of content and creative people