Every forum I used before Reddit even existed is still active (hell, PHPBB was updated as recently as November!) and new platforms, like Lemmy, pop up all the time . IDK what the fuck these articles are talking about. Maybe they just don't know how to actually find anything on the web? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] tfm@europe.pub 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think it's more about the scale. 80% or more of the content gets created on Reddit or alike, probably.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Barely any content is created on Reddit. It's an aggregate site where 90% of the posts are links to other sites, just like Lemmy. Even most of the memes/image macros are unoriginal and taken from somewhere else.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 20 points 4 days ago

I have to disagree. I have seen a lot of helpful question/answer Style content there which was only there.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

well maybe on certain (mainstream?) subs, but tech subs like those that do something with selfhosting have a lot of discussions. including in the comments of posts that point to external content!

its a shame that there's no lemmy instance thats basically a mirror of a few reddit subs (or is there?)

[–] DevotedOtter@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if it's a Lemmy feature or voyager feature. But under the settings, there's a migrate subreddits. It pulls across the subreddits you are subscribed to and matches them to ones on Lemmy.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

afaik that just auto-subscribes you to a popular lemmy-alternatives of your communities