PieFed has features that even Reddit lacks, like combining together comments across all cross-posts (and plans to tweak that still further, like add the ability to a community to opt-out of it, though I find that it helps with community discovery).
I would say it’s more than just the interface that makes Lemmy similar to Reddit. To end users, they are virtually identical services in terms of functionality. Link aggregators with built-in community forums. I think it’s fair to call Lemmy a federated Reddit clone. Not to suggest Reddit invented any of the aforementioned features, just that Lemmy’s implementation of said features is in many ways identical to Reddit’s approach because it was meant to be a Reddit alternative for the fediverse.
Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you’re interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them.
Reddit was already the replacement everyone went to after they redesigned Digg in 2010 to focus on publishers and traffic fell 50% almost immediately. Digg had 40 million monthly visitors and a $160 Million valuation at the time.
and the crowd goes mild
Yeah. Pretty much. Reddit should not be cloned. It’s a bad move.
Isn’t Lemmy a reddit clone?
PieFed has features that even Reddit lacks, like combining together comments across all cross-posts (and plans to tweak that still further, like add the ability to a community to opt-out of it, though I find that it helps with community discovery).
Well damn. That sounds…very nice.
Maybe an old.reddit.com clone.
But we’ve diverged pretty well since then.
Not really. There is far more they don’t share in common than they do.
I literally got banned from reddit 2 years ago, and searched “reddit clone”. Found Lemmy, and here I am.
Yeah same but more recently.
Holy shit same.
Federation means the fundamental infrastructure and dependencies are entirely different. Even if the interface may feel similar to you.
I would say it’s more than just the interface that makes Lemmy similar to Reddit. To end users, they are virtually identical services in terms of functionality. Link aggregators with built-in community forums. I think it’s fair to call Lemmy a federated Reddit clone. Not to suggest Reddit invented any of the aforementioned features, just that Lemmy’s implementation of said features is in many ways identical to Reddit’s approach because it was meant to be a Reddit alternative for the fediverse.
Even the official Lemmy git repository compares the project to Reddit:
Reddit was already the replacement everyone went to after they redesigned Digg in 2010 to focus on publishers and traffic fell 50% almost immediately. Digg had 40 million monthly visitors and a $160 Million valuation at the time.
https://www.startupbooted.com/what-happened-to-digg