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Lemmy and Piefed are much more 1:1 reddit replacements. Mbin is it’s own thing, which is very high quality, but has less out of the box appeal to someone looking for “fediverse reddit”.

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dudenas@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Mastodon (and others a la twitter) is actor-centric, where focus is on people.

Lemmy (and others a la reddit) is topic-centric, where focus is on common interests.

These two are very different approaches that I can hardly see mixing well. I thought of “magazines” of mbin as a “nice to have” but unnecessary functionality. Did it actually lift off?

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- dudenas@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Started to argue with myself: if the concepts of following people and topics did not mix well, how could fb reach a couple bilion users? I myself silently hope for Bonfire to succeed, even after seeing Friendica, Hubzilla and almost forgotten Diaspora. Maybe it just wasnt done rght in FOSS so far?
  
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  - ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Reddit was a fusion of old forums and Digg before it nuked itself.
    
    I never cared for Facebook or Twitter style following people, threads in a topic board feels just more natural.
    
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- Kierunkowy74@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  kbin.social did lift off. Maybe even too much for this software at the time?
  
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- MBM@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Mastodon also has hashtags and guppe groups, which kind of blur the line
  
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