Maybe I just miss Reddit is Fun, not Reddit, but I still have RiF installed (I just can’t delete it) and it still “works”. I can’t sign in or participate, but fuck I miss browsing everything. I’ve definitely replaced it with Kbin, but opening the RiF app just gives me sadness. Fuck spez.
Did not meant to convince you to drop kbin in favor of tildes, as you can see, I’m on both. Though tildes does have that old reddit feel, the “subreddits” are still fixed (users can’t create own ones), they are trying to keep effort to be friendly and accepting (that’s why the invites, to prevent people joining massively and drastically changing the culture), it’s also run by one of old reddit admins (Deimos). The goal is to have “reddit” that isn’t a company seeking profits but a non-profit org living from donations.
But yeah, lemmy/kbin on the other hand has communities/magazines on topics that aren’t available on tildes.
Hey so this might come off combative but it’s not my goal, I really want info. Why is tildes not just Reddit redux? I could be very wrong here and would appreciate correction but as i understand it tildes is not part of the fediverse and control seems to land in the hands of the few, isn’t that what ended up driving most of us here to the fediverse? Maybe I’m wrong about all of this and I’d be thrilled if I was because the person who made RiF said they were moving to tildes and I loved RiF.
So as far as I know Tildes is owned by Spectria which is a Canadian non-for-profit corporation.
It apparently was created, because they didn’t like what was happening with reddit.
I don’t know how easy/hard it is to change it to for profit though.
@takeda If it’s owned by a non-profit, then I hope they’ll consider switching to a federated model eventually
@bbplay13 @Arotrios @Fatbuddha
From what I found tildes was created in 2018 (https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/), lemmy was created in 2019, kbin I think started in 2023.
Edit: I just noticed that tildes is under AGPL, and doesn’t look like they don’t require contributors to surrender their copyright, so it means the code will need to stay open source even if something would change with the company.