Announcement post here: https://discuit.substack.com/p/df5f002f-e27a-46a6-b30d-7641b266bd65
For those unfamiliar, Discuit is another Reddit alternative that’s been floating around for a while. I was unable to find a MAU count, but I am honestly more interested in their software than their communities. Particularly curious what you all think of this stack. A consistent complaint around Lemmy is that a Rust backend makes contribution difficult, will a Go backend contribute to a lower overall barrier of entry?
Its website is looking good.
Seriously asking, not being snarky, but that looks good? It’s just a clone of new.reddit and every other SNS layout of the past 20 years.
Yeah, the only reason I’m still dabbling in Reddit is because they still have old.Reddit. As soon as Reddit goes to new.Reddit-only, I’m gone for good. I hate that UI.
Lots of people seem to like it, though, so I guess more power to them if they want to use it. One of the great advantages of the Fediverse is not having gatekeeping on the interface.
Honestly, I think it looks substantially cleaner than the new reddit. Also, a lot more performant, which goes a long way towards the overall vibe of the UI.
Do you know about https://phtn.app/, the alternative frontend for Lemmy?
Do you know about https://phtn.app/, the alternative frontend for Lemmy?
Their users hate idea of fediverse
Even the main devs didn’t like fediverse
Federated social platforms, I don’t think, will ever become mainstream. They may work in certain niches or perhaps among a subset of tech savvy people, but I’m highly skeptical if regular people will ever migrate to them.
https://discuit.substack.com/p/introducing-discuit here they state explicitly they don’t want federation. He also explains why he thinks federation doesn’t work, however I don’t find these arguments convincing
I couldn’t find a MAU count either, but the largest, default community is Discuit with current 4,594 members, which I suspect is not too far below lifetime active users.
As a point of comparison, the largest Lemmy instance, lemmy.world has 12k MAUs out of 143k lifetime users. If this ratio is the same on Discuit, would imply about 400 MAUs.
Yeah they’re vastly smaller than Lemmy, which is probably why they felt the need to go open source. But without federation, open source doesn’t do much to change things.
I do like the site and the userbase, so if they were open to federation I think it’d be a nice little boost for us.
There’s already a PHP backend, kbin, though judging which is a better language for this sort of thing is outside of my wheelhouse.
https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin has more active development
Oh, interesting, I hadn’t heard of this. I hope this fork is amicable? Ernest has struck me as being a reasonable dev from what I’ve seen of his public interactions, I’d hate to hear that there’s drama afoot.
