Lemmy has been growing quite well and has a passionate userbase. It's still microscopic compared to Reddit, but it has great apps and scratches the itch for me.

So long as you stay away from anything politics (including news!). They are extremely left wing - the developers believe the Chinese communist party can do no wrong. There are instances that are not quite that bad, but they are still very left wing and make central or right wing positions unwelcome.

There are some good tech communities there.

The politics are so bad that I think people should stay away from Lemmy period. It's like saying it's fine to create a Xitter account these days as long as you stay away from politics.

The developers of the platform are tankies, but instances other than lemmy.ml and Hexbear are more normal. Left-leaning, yes, but I also unsub from politics communities and have a block list of a few words (you can probably assume what those are) to prevent those things from getting through.

I hardly noticed, and I've been on Lemmy for nearly two years. I think it depends on which instance you sign on to. But a) you can filter out certain topics, users and even entire instances from your feed, and b) you can always sign up to a different instance if you still feel annoyed for whatever reason. For example, I left lemmy.world when it turned into some sort of Reddit clone.

Private discord servers for everything nowadays.

The open searchable internet is dead for people trying to find community, imo.

People already left and they're in Discord. Reddit today is a shell of what it was.

You don't have to link anything but what kind of discord servers? Also the problem with discord for me is the fact that information only exists momentarily. Reddit search is bad but at least you can Google. Discord servers are basically impenetrable if you can't check it constantly

Yeah I just can’t grok discord as a replacement for message boards

It’s a chat system. It’s a very nice IRC but how are you supposed to get up to speed? I’m also feeling super out of touch with folk who use telegram as social media.

No way I’m staying connected all the time to be a regular. Too many chats and the quality of the content is not very high to be engaging

Yeah I'm not saying its a good replacement, it's actually atrocious but its already replaced reddit and is where the actual users are now.

Reddit doesn't know it yet but they're already very deep in the twilight phase of their site and it's going to start accelerating.