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[jpcfl]

This reminds me of the Great Digg Migration.

If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.

[chimeracoder → jpcfl]

> If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.

Neither Mastodon nor ActivityPup are a real replacement for the use case of Reddit. They serve very different purposes.

[jpcfl → chimeracoder]

I think both support the use cases of browsing, sharing, and discussing content pretty well. They just have different ways of categorizing and moderating content.

[treyd → chimeracoder]

Why do you think ActivityPub can't be used to implement a reddit clone? There's already 2 projects doing it reasonably successfully.

[floren → jpcfl]

> If there was ever a time to promote Mastadon, it's now.

make sure you spell it correctly if you do, though

[dom96 → jpcfl]

Mastodon is more of a Twitter replacement, no?

[jarfil → dom96]

Indeed. It can however interact with Lemmy and kbin, which are direct Reddit replacements.

[tomstockmail → jarfil]

All three use federated groups:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/groups-implementation/...

There are groups on Mastodon that you can join and follow.

[jpcfl → dom96]

I'm not overly familiar with Mastodon (hence the typo in my comment), but my understanding is that it's a place to browse, share, and discuss content. The UI does appear to be more like Twitter.

[irrational → jpcfl]

And the Slashdot migration before that. I we really compare what happened to Slashdot and then what happened to Digg, the parallels to what is happening to Reddit are obvious. I assume the result will be the same.