Where have Reddit communities migrated to?

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Now that the dust has settled from the Reddit debacle, I find myself wondering what is the outcome, where do I find communities now? Did Lemmy gain traction like some hoped, or did stuff move to Discord like others feared? Or are people still sticking with Reddit despite its misgivings?Has anyone put out a resource cataloguing all the different subreddits that have found new homes?In case someone is out of the loop, Reddit had some API policy changes in the works which sparked protests and it went rapidly downhill from there. Few links for the curious:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36210805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36359259

p-e-w · Accepted Answer

They haven't. There is https://redditmigration.com which lists some attempts to create alternative communities in the Fediverse, but few of those have gained any traction. Most Reddit communities are still where they were before &ndash; on Reddit.And considering that the main purpose of Lemmy and Mastodon in practice appears to be for their creators and their acolytes to police their communities' political compliance, I'd say that is probably the lesser evil.

cianuro_ · Answer

I usually hang in https://programming.dev/ now. Reddit is not worth it for me anymore.

rewmie · Answer

Lemmy received a big influx of new users once Reddit's CEO started acting out
Lemmy, being a part of the fediverse, has a bunch of servers where we can access Lemmy communities. Here's a starting point.
https://lemmy.world/
There's also the possibility of self-hosting Lemmy nodes.

hcks · Answer

Literally nothing happened and Reddit is back to business as usual

jedisct1 · Answer

The Zig subreddit migrated to a dedicated discussion board https://ziggit.dev

kingkongjaffa · Answer

I'm having a good time on https://tildes.net/
Mostly because it has few users, and those users tend to write for the benefit of others rather than the benefit of themselves.
Since there is no visible karma/upvote score there's less motivation to post low-effort highly agreeable content. It's also nice being so small that I notice the same usernames over and over on the same topic and get to know people. Most comments are made in good faith I think.

I_am_tiberius · Answer

Someone made this site (https://sub.rehab), which references alternatives to the subreddits you're interested in.

dpeck · Answer

Here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36731320

qjx · Answer

personally i've not done the lemmy/federated route. i just find small "traditional" forums for the specific topics. i find these smaller communities resemble the old days of reddit. none of the mascot avatar/NFT/pixel awards nonsense