I have seen some users on that sub complain in every single thread that there is no alternative for the last two years and a half. Really makes you question how much they actually want to leave.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True. Comments saying “build your own application” were more popular than comments suggesting Lemmy.

Even if you wanted to “build your own Reddit” you’d be better off starting with Lemmy source code anyway.

Also possible that Reddit buries the Lemmy posts. You can’t see the up/downvote counts. After all.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

About once a week there's a post saying "Hi, I built a new reddit alternative!" there

And it's usually just utter rubbish. Like yes, it works but it's barebones and basics. What is it they are expecting?

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even if you don’t want to participate in the Lemmy, just steal the source code and rebrand it and use that as a starting point.

That’s basically what Truth Social did with Mastadon.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago

https://clubsall.com/ tried to use Threadiverse content without federating back.

Seems like the project died, which is a shame because their frontend was cool

[–] missingno@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

The people who want to leave, did. The only ones still there have dug in their heels.