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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?