Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes… I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I’m missing?
I ask because I haven’t felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on… But there might be other alternatives I haven’t looked at that are worth that look.
Same here. Squabbles is a bit more Reddit-like but I’m enjoying both quite a bit!
What’s their deal? Doesn’t seem open source. Isn’t federated. Who owns it? Whats their business model?
UI looks clean, polished even. But I don’t wanna buy-in on another closed system that may degrade in the same way.
There may be more on their discord, but just from what I’ve seen, the founder was a regular on /r/entrepreneur and has been looking for the right idea to “hit.” It’s closed source, centralized, a PHP codebase, and the founder is declining any extra help or donations, instead doing everything himself and working on an optional subscription to begin proper monetization ASAP and keep control from being muddied. It’s pretty decent, and some of the less tech-centered communities are doing well there, but while there’s not much I can complain about in its current form, something nebulous has my spidey-sense tingling.