Post on /r/RedditAlternatives finds it suspicious that people suggest Lemmy a lot as a Reddit alternative

In their defense, for someone who has never heard of Lemmy/the fediverse, it's reasonable for them to be cautious. So many other platforms are VC funded, do guerilla marketing, have hidden agendas, etc. It's especially bad on Reddit with all the AI astroturfing now.

I've seen a bit of that in the Canadian reddit comms, where new users are initially concerned that they're joining another american tech startup's platform. Once they learn how the network works, how the software is open source, and (specific to lemmy.ca) that the site is managed by a non-profit and the servers are in Vancouver, they're more excited about it :)

Fair point. Good to see Canadian people being excited about Lemmy.ca!
- Don't forget about sh.itjust.works! But yeah it's nice to see some strong Canadian representation. And it's nice to see that Lemmy is slightly less US-centric than reddit.

That looks like a healthier discussion than I would have feared below the post.

Like it or not, Lemmy/Piefed/MBin are the best replacement for a reddit-like experience, the other alternatives I have seen suggested have even more problems with active user count, or are much more specific and not aiming to be like reddit at all (e.g. Hackernews)

Where's the love for piefed bots? I'm ~~god's~~ rimu's strongest soldier

I am still sad, that, in another universe, past me probably said "Who cares that Piefed has worse documentation at the moment, just go with anyway", when setting up my server. But without prior hosting experience, I went with the more established Lemmy, even though PieFed is literally just better concerning its features.
- It's an amazing feat, hosting a service like this, so I like to think this 'other' self would deserve to feel proud of themselves irregardless of the compromises they've had to make. Although I would love to hear how you managed to bridge that trouble yourself.
  I for one, certainly haven't been brave enough to host anything like this ;p.
Does piefed have any apps yet?
- There's https://codeberg.org/freamon/pferd, https://github.com/jwr1/interstellar for now
  Soon, there [might] be voyager and tesseract support.
Piefed is awesome 😎
- fedipiebros rise up :muscle: (i dont have an emoji picker installed yet :^c)

Not a huge surprise that one of the largest reddit replacements gets suggested frequently is it?

It couldn’t possibly be that the platform is good!

We out here shilling for Big Lemmy

We're enthusiastic. Very enthusiastic.

I think either these people just aren't aware or don't understand that the biggest alternative will be suggested more, or they're arguing in bad faith because they want to prevent people from leaving Reddit, something that is not at all uncommon on that sub, unfortunately.

Right? What about kbin? Are there any other Reddit-like sites?

Mbin and Piefed