<![CDATA[A while ago I asked people here whether they use Lemmy or Reddit.]]>A while ago I asked people here whether they use Lemmy or Reddit. The results got me thinking: even among people who already use and like the Fediverse, Lemmy seems to be surprisingly small.

So I wrote about why that might be & why I think Lemmy deserves more users.

> Old forums: independent, but isolated.
> Reddit: connected, but centralized.
> Lemmy: independent and connected.

Read the whole thing here:

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> Multi-communities: Group different communities together into a custom feed.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/mleduc/statuses/117344292832799471https://citiverse.it/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/mleduc/statuses/117344292832799471Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:56:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A while ago I asked people here whether they use Lemmy or Reddit. on Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:51:07 GMT]]>@tootbrute @byte21516 not strictly self-hosting but to launch https://lowtech.li/ without investing too much time on the setup, I went with https://elest.io/

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/mleduc/statuses/117344270225519859https://citiverse.it/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/mleduc/statuses/117344270225519859Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:51:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A while ago I asked people here whether they use Lemmy or Reddit. on Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:36:45 GMT]]>@byte21516 no need to apologize. i appreciate your blog post!

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://fedi.arkadi.one/users/tootbrute/statuses/01M3DEVC1DWZRRX4MJBSRPVXA8https://citiverse.it/post/https://fedi.arkadi.one/users/tootbrute/statuses/01M3DEVC1DWZRRX4MJBSRPVXA8Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:36:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A while ago I asked people here whether they use Lemmy or Reddit. on Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:31:53 GMT]]>@tootbrute that, I don't know, never tried selfhosting anything fediverse-related.
My blogpost also does not answer this question.

Sorry 😕

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://chaos.social/ap/users/115802539298863349/statuses/117334285607286568https://citiverse.it/post/https://chaos.social/ap/users/115802539298863349/statuses/117334285607286568Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:31:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to A while ago I asked people here whether they use Lemmy or Reddit. on Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:28:53 GMT]]>@byte21516 i wonder if it's gotten easier to self-host. i know i tried it before but that was a long while ago. i'll have to try again.

edit: so there's a nixos service for it. no reason for me  not to try again!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7knMrWGOKUEaKSwbgnLqL-X4QABb0JUl

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