this question aims to look at alternatives, not why we should remain using lemmy or any lemmy instance.

  • @[email protected]OP
    1•3 years ago

    Here’s a list to some alternatives. Some might look to be non-alternatives at first glance, so before naming some alternatives I’d like to remind what the purpose of spaces like this are:

    Communicating with others

    • writing letters to prisoners, and having an adress they can respond to. If they answer, write an response
    • walls (get some chalk, spray paint, etc). I grand you read/write access
    • zines (write/read and them circulate)
    • non-lemmy fediverse platforms
    • email lists (you can use them as if they are federated forums)
    • blogs/rss feeds
    • irc/xmpp
    • raddle.me
  • Vegafjord eo
    0•3 years ago

    The problem with lemmy right now is that there are too few instances. The instances that has momentum has a strong tankies presence which a lot of people are uncofortable with. The most natural answer would be for them to create their own instance, but they chose to leave the platform instead 🤯

    • @[email protected]
      -2•3 years ago

      tankies

      That labelling approach is getting you nowhere. There are only so many kinds of forums you can join, at the end of the day. Some have straight up Nazi leaning, here you have a socialist leaning. Then you have centrist places like Reddit. Then there is reactionary left on YouTube and Twitter, and reactionary right on bit chute and Gab. You have furries and pedophile groomers on Discord, and every kind of person on Telegram.

      You pick the forums less dependent on the political ideology, and more on if they have people with academic rigour and are filled with less stupid monkey brains, and how much toxicity you can handle at a time. The political part plays a role after this.

      People that came to Lemmy are mostly people that have low toxicity buffers and also happen to have a preference for fediverse and like the darknet proxy anonymity that can be achieved here. The leftist politics only comes later.

      I am personally still evaluating Lemmy after a whole year of high participation and contribution to this platform, and admins and old people here know my comments pretty well.