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?
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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
Those arguments… I’ve read them before somewhere.
The dev wants to become King over their domain and that’s it.
If it’s not ActivityPub compatible I don’t care anymore. Interoperability is a hard requirement at this point.
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.
Not tech savvy regular moron reporting for duty
5 replies in 7 weeks, with 14 upvotes on the most popular post? I don’t know how representative that is of the whole site…
If it’s open source, does that matter? Fork it.
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.
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?
Right? The website looks really nice! Does anyone have any more info about this?
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.
Fed up with alternative bs, lemmy is the only sensible reddit alternative.
Meh, I use Kbin fork and like it more then lemmy, I don’t think that your opinion describes everyone
Ofcourse, it’s my opinion
I prefer kbin over the tankie shit.
Is it really that tough to make changes on rust? I’m not even a web developer and even I’ve been able to figure out how to fiddle with lotide’s back-end code. I added a feature (I need to add back in) for stuff without a title so it’ll just pull the first line of text for when I’m pulling from friendica communities and the like.
I suspect it actually has more to do with the organizing principles of Lemmy’s code exasperated by a relative unfamiliarity with rust. Just giving the codebase here a once over I think I would have a pretty good idea of where to jump in while I’ve had no such luck with the Lemmy codebase. Worth noting I’ve done a fair bit of work in rust but not in go.
