Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes… I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I’m missing?

I ask because I haven’t felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on… But there might be other alternatives I haven’t looked at that are worth that look.

    • Goronmon@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The usage of the ‘~’ itself annoys me more than it should with that site, haha. Both from a viewing perspective and a typing perspective.

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      1 year ago

      Getting an invite for tildes is relatively easy, but if kbin can keep up with massive number of users, it will likely become much more popular.

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        1 year ago

        Know any good ways to get a Tildes invite? I’ve been lurking there for a while but I’m keen to join properly

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          1 year ago

          I got one about a week ago by replying to their sticky post on their subreddit r/tildes

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            1 year ago

            That got shut down pretty rapidly once the reddit blackout happened. I emailed asking for one. I read somewhere that they have a queue of something like 2,000 invite requests to work through, so it might be a while.

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      1 year ago

      What makes Tildes.net different? Does it do anything differently than Reddit, or is it mostly just a clone?

      I haven’t browsed it for more than a few minutes nor do I have an invite so it would be nice to hear if there’s anything that makes it stand out from other alternatives.