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jointhefediverse.net seems to be a commonly linked resource for directing people to join the Fediverse.

Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives. Their GitHub README explains why.

Previous relevant discussion: https://lemmy.ml/post/78808

  • teohhanhui@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    101·
    2 days ago

    I don’t know. I just came across it yesterday, and I thought it’d be something interesting to share.

    It was explained in the post’s body actually:

    Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives.

    Most of the people here know about the Lemmy devs political stances.

    Seeing as I’ve only started using Lemmy less than a month ago, I’ve only just very recently started realizing that.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      It’s okay, I see your account is quite new, so no worries.

      As I said, those issues are known, you can have a look at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com for posts complaining about power tripping mods, be it lemmy.ml or elsewhere.

      The key takeaway is that even with its flaws, Lemmy is the biggest Reddit alternative by far (Discuit has less than 200 weekly active posters, Lemmy has 42000). If there would have been a better alternative people would probably have moved there, but there wasn’t (and still isn’t) any, so here we are