Your title is terrible. Use the article's title.

Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software https://openalternative.co/

Self-hosted software https://selfh.st/apps/

A list of free, self-hosted software https://awesome-selfhosted.net/ - https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Open source (OSS) Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations https://sh.itjust.works/post/13060070 - https://codeberg.org/QazCetelic/OSS-Blacklist

He makes claims that need citations.

You should edit the OP too.

I'll upvote you if you add one or more citations for your claims.

Linking directly to reddit helps them show up at the top of search results. Use archive websites.

The person who created the "List of Active Reddit Alternatives" is a dev who helped work on saidit.net. They deleted the post themselves and quit being a mod of that redditalternatives sub; due to their disgust with reddit and many of the users on it.

That subreddit is not trustworthy now. I recall someone sharing evidence of content they're censoring.

How do you find out what mastodon instances block others?

it’s slowly turning into the old twitter.

How?

People should stop linking to reddit. Use an archived version. More websites linking to reddit is why they're at the top of search results. It's called "domain authority".

Unfortunately, I haven't observed that. There seem to be many people on Lemmy who go out of their way to be antagonistic to other Lemmy users. Which includes downvote brigading, as the OP said.

More and more instances are defederating with Lemmy.world recently

Links? I'd like to read about that.

And Elon's still out there pushing to maintain the current population level.

Don't get your political coverage from social media. Look for reputable news sources. I block all the political communities.

mostly for mechanical keyboards

There are good forums for that. People need to go back to forums.

I couldn't get anyone from reddit to move over.

Yeah, this is just manufactured drama. The screenshots showing what preceded his comment show the whole thing to clearly be bait for the purpose of creating drama.

You started out with the whole "it's the bourgeoisie pushing transphobia" thing.

Based on the additional screenshots in a comment, it looks like this whole thing was bait to create drama.

The authors intentionally left out which brands had what concentrations of metals given that levels could vary even within the same company. Interestingly, the study found that organic cocoa products were more likely to have higher levels of cadmium and lead.

The problems would only get exacerbated if more of them migrate over here, that’s the issue.

I doubt that it would make Lemmy significantly worse. I've already had to block nearly a hundred lemmy communities for containing the "mindless trash" that is abundant on reddit. The reality is that most people aren't smart and don't want to browse and participate in intellectual content. They want to mindlessly scroll through endless memes. I have not observed that people on lemmy are overall more intelligent than people on reddit.

I don't think so. I think Lemmy already & inherently has many of the same problems. People are people, no matter where you go.

Lemmy is only better because it's not centrally controlled.

Notice the htmlview at the end. You can archive it.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20240717202840/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/htmlview
• https://archive.fo/fPiCh

Peertube vs Odysee?

Non-reddit link https://web.archive.org/web/20240716124949/https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox/

Gross. Mozilla employees are officially posting to reddit...

I think it's essential to have one or more communities like this. There were a few on reddit -- watchredditdie, declineintocensorship, and more. The admins shut them down. I was unsuccessful in getting them to move over to Lemmy.

Absolutely the same things happen on lemmy. It's to be expected from both mods and admins. We need to have a place we can go to find out "which are the bad communities & instances".

The main problem I foresee is that those "watchredditdie and declineintocensorship" subs seemed to be well modded and mostly populated with intelligent people. In contrast, lemmy seems to have quite a lot of trolls, unintelligent people, and likely astroturfing. That will make things more difficult.

Thanks for the info!

I may add options to modify the exported data in some ways via a simple checkbox in the future, but I wouldn’t count on it.

The 2nd screenshot https://github.com/StableNarwhal/Lemmy-Userdata-Migration/wiki/How-to-only-export-or-transfer-a-part-of-my-user-data,-e.g.-blocked-instances%3F shows that feature already exists?

What about forking lasim, which is now inactive? https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

It's better than the built-in option because it gives you more options. For example, if I only want to add blocks from one account to another without overwriting any other settings. I don't see that your tool allows for that.

you just write in Markdown (the same thing Lemmy uses), pick a theme, and you’re good to go

That is far too basic for most websites. It's absurd to suggest that's a valid alternative for something like Wordpress + Elementor.

Squarespace should be on the table for static websites as well.

How so? It's not static that I'm aware of, unless you're exporting it to a file after using the UI to create it?

I assumed we were talking about direct replacements for WordPress, not hosted alternatives.

Well, as you said, Wordpress does a lot of things. Shopify, Wordpress, Squarespace, etc., are certainly interchangeable/competitors to a large degree. Wordpress has hosted options and is a default/main option for many hosting companies.

You can build a full website with every major function and design option with Wordpress. You can't with Jekyll and Hugo unless you can code.

Nice policy. I chose shitjustworks because I saw here https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances that it has fewer blocks than lemm.ee.

static site? - Hugo, Jekyll, etc - just generates regular HTML

These are either vastly more limited, or they require you to be able to code.

ecommerce? - consider nopCommerce or OpenCard

I've never heard of these, but I have seen people say that if you want to do ecommerce you should only use Shopify, because even small differences can result in people not purchasing your products.

What would you use instead?

2FA is annoying and not necessary for most things.

How long does Catbox keep files for?

Forever. If you don't want your file to stick around until the heat death of the universe, use Litterbox.

https://catbox.moe/faq.php

Ventoy > Rufus and also bypasses them by default.

What do you use instead?

I'm grateful that Stackoverflow is a valid alternative to reddit for many things. Fuck reddit.

I don't understand why you and others are so mad about this. Stackoverflow is a great resource that takes significant time and money to maintain. I don't have a problem with the maintainers making money by selling access to train AI on the data.

Having Stackoverflow as an alternative to reddit is important so that people aren't stuck using reddit.

The point is to search the whole fediverse, not just one instance.

This is becoming the norm. The ban system is totally broken as they're handing more and more tasks over to bad AIs. There are constantly tons of complaints from moderators about Reddit's various broken systems, including the ban system.

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