Yes, Reddit is going through its own API pains right now, and of course it is anyway a centralised social network much like Facebook and Twitter. So the discussion around alternatives has been coming up again. Lemmy has been around for a while, its technology is good, and it federates via ActivityPub to the rest...
Also “bin” sounds like trashcan? Not optimal!
@newtosh critiques like these of names makes no sense to me.
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