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...
All a community/magazine is is an group in ActivityPub, just like in Mastodon or lemmy/kbin/calckey etc. Following and posting a message to that group from Mastodon amounts to working exactly the same as you would follow/post to another user. The only difference is that Mastodon uses the ‘note’ data type and lemmy/KBin use ‘article’ amongst others.
On kbin a magazine can be setup to track hashtags and any ‘note’ with that hashtag will appear there too.
All a community/magazine is is an group in ActivityPub, just like in Mastodon or lemmy/kbin/calckey etc. Following and posting a message to that group from Mastodon amounts to working exactly the same as you would follow/post to another user. The only difference is that Mastodon uses the ‘note’ data type and lemmy/KBin use ‘article’ amongst others.
On kbin a magazine can be setup to track hashtags and any ‘note’ with that hashtag will appear there too.