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+title: "Alternative Communities for Reddit on Fediverse"
+date: 2023-06-12
+lang: en
+categories: [ blog, links ]
+tags: [alternative, reddit, fediverse]
+translationKey: "2023-06-12-reddit-alt-communities"
+---
+
+You probably know about the recent Reddit API changes to charge the uses.  It
+is nothing of surprise really, just business as usual.  This has incapacitated
+third-party clients and moderation tools.  Numerous subreddits have closed
+temporarily to protest this change.  Personally, I don't find this protest to
+be very meaningful: 1-2 days are not gonna change anything.  I believe people
+who opposed the change will benefit more from running their own communities on
+free, open platforms, and no, we don't even have to build from scratch, there
+are already at least three Reddit-like servers on fediverse: Lemmy, kbin and
+lotide.  Their functionalities may not match one-to-one, but they should be
+decent enough to work.  Migrating to other platforms may not change anything
+for the API situation either, but the point is that one is no longer have to
+play Reddit's game anymore.
+
+In this post, I'll list some of communities and their counterparts on
+fediverse.  If you know of any that isn't listed, please let me know.
+
+| Subreddits          | Alternative communities                    | Server |
+|---------------------|--------------------------------------------|--------|
+| r/Music             | [Music@beehaw.org][music-beehaw]           | Lemmy  |
+| r/Music             | [Music@narwhal.city][music-narw]           | lotide |
+| r/Music             | [music@kbin.social][music-kbin]            | kbin   |
+| r/Vietnam           | [vietnam@slrpnk.net][vietnam-slr]          | Lemmy  |
+| r/books             | [books@kbin.social][books-kbin]            | kbin   |
+| r/books             | [books@lemmy.ml][books-lemmy]              | Lemmy  |
+| r/explainlikeimfive | [ELI5@kbin.social][eli5-kbin]              | kbin   |
+| r/food              | [food@beehaw.org][food-beehaw]             | Lemmy  |
+| r/food              | [food@kbin.social][food-kbin]              | kbin   |
+| r/food              | [food@lemmy.ml][food-lemmy]                | Lemmy  |
+| r/food              | [food@slrpnk.net][food-slr]                | Lemmy  |
+| r/food              | [recipes@lemmy.ml][recipes-lemmy]          | Lemmy  |
+| r/memes             | [memes@lemmy.ml][memes-lemmy]              | Lemmy  |
+| r/memes             | [memes@slrpnk.net][memes-slr]              | Lemmy  |
+| r/piracy            | [piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com][piracy-dbz]      | Lemmy  |
+| r/piracy            | [piracy@lemmy.ml][piracy-lemmy]            | Lemmy  |
+| r/science           | [science@beehaw.org][sci-beehaw]           | Lemmy  |
+| r/science           | [science@kbin.social][sci-kbin]            | kbin   |
+| r/science           | [science@lemmy.ml][sci-lemmy]              | Lemmy  |
+| r/worldbuilding     | [worldbuilding@lemmy.ml][worldbuild-lemmy] | Lemmy  |
+
+[books-kbin]: https://kbin.social/m/books
+[books-lemmy]: https://lemmy.ml/c/books
+[eli5-kbin]: https://kbin.social/m/ELI5
+[food-beehaw]: https://beehaw.org/c/food
+[food-kbin]: https://kbin.social/m/food
+[food-lemmy]: https://lemmy.ml/c/food
+[food-slr]: https://slrpnk.net/c/food
+[memes-lemmy]: https://lemmy.ml/c/memes
+[memes-slr]: https://slrpnk.net/c/memes
+[music-beehaw]: https://beehaw.org/c/music
+[music-kbin]: https://kbin.social/m/music
+[music-narw]: https://narwhal.city/communities/15
+[piracy-dbz]: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy
+[piracy-lemmy]: https://lemmy.ml/c/piracy
+[recipes-lemmy]: https://lemmy.ml/c/recipes
+[sci-beehaw]: https://beehaw.org/c/science
+[sci-kbin]: https://kbin.social/m/science
+[sci-lemmy]: https://lemmy.ml/c/science
+[vietnam-slr]: https://slrpnk.net/c/vietnam
+[worldbuild-lemmy]: https://lemmy.ml/c/worldbuilding
+
+On a related note, I think these alternative servers would benefit a lot from
+having great clients as those targeted Reddit.  Anyone willing to work on
+remapping those API endpoints?