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The guide is copied below, from https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/ https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/ -- #### I think this s
by tikkun 3y ago
The guide is copied below, from https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/ https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/
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#### I think this site may break or stop updating soon due to Reddit's API changes. I don't earn any money from this site, and if my calculations are correct it'd cost me a couple thousand dollars per month with their new API pricing, so yeah. If you can, it's probably worth leaving Reddit for other platforms - especially open-source/federated ones like [Lemmy](https://lemmy.world/ https://lemmy.world/).
*Note 1*: People are sometimes confused by the fact that there are multiple Lemmy websites like [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/ https://lemmy.world/) and [lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/ https://lemmy.ml/) - don't worry about that. Just sign up on *one* site, and you'll be able to join and interact with communities on *any* other Lemmy site. Choosing which Lemmy site to sign up to is a bit like choosing your email provider - e.g. if you use gmail, you can still communicate with people who use other email services like yahoo or protonmail. The reason there are multiple sites is because _anyone_ can create their own Lemmy instance - so no single person or company controls the '[fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)'. Just choose a popular and reputable one like [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/ https://lemmy.world/).
*Note 2*: You can use [lemmyverse.net](https://lemmyverse.net/communities https://lemmyverse.net/communities) to help you find communities across the whole fediverse. If you've signed up to lemmy.world, then you can visit 'local' communities like [lemmy.world/c/memes](https://lemmy.world/c/memes https://lemmy.world/c/memes) - and if you want to subscribe to or interact with a community on a _different site_, then just add @SiteName to the end of the community URL. For example, if you're signed up to lemmy.world, but you prefer the lemmy.ml memes community, then you can visit [lemmy.world/c/memes*@lemmy.ml*](https://lemmy.world/c/memes@lemmy.ml https://lemmy.world/c/memes@lemmy.ml) to subscribe to and interact with the lemmy.ml memes community.
*Note 3*: Lemmy is based on the same technology as [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/explore https://mastodon.social/explore). Both services "speak the same language" (that language is called 'ActivityPub'), so you can view and interact with Mastodon content from Lemmy, and vice versa. They're both part of the '[fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse)', but Lemmy provides a Reddit-like experience, whereas Mastodon is more like Twitter.
*Note 4*: It's worth mentioning that Lemmy is young - the Lemmy [devs](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy) are working hard to quickly improve the software, and server admins have been constantly moving to larger machines to support the influx of new users, so please be patient with bugs and issues. Also, the only way to grow Lemmy is for people like you to spend time on the site daily, interact, create new communities, etc. - please [join us](https://lemmy.world/signup https://lemmy.world/signup) on this new adventure :)
- wddkcs 3y agoI've started using HN as my reddit replacement. As a mostly non-technical user, there's little for me to directly interact with, but at least the content is high quality. I hope some of these options do catch on, but right now I'm not bothering with any of them. I went to reddit from digg, and that transition worked because 2010 era reddit was basically the old digg. Maybe I'm stuck in the mud, but lemmy et al seem too far adrift to replace reddit directly.
- tikkun 3y agoI think you’re 100% right. I suspect a Reddit competitor that more closely copied Reddit would have much better odds of success.