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Slicer vs Lemmy

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When comparing Slicer vs Lemmy, the Slant community recommends Lemmy for most people. In the question“What are the best Reddit alternatives?” Lemmy is ranked 2nd while Slicer is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Lemmy is:

Anyone can self-host the software on their own server. Users can join an instance they like. You can view and comment on other servers (instances) as long as the instance you are on hasn't blocked the other instance.

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Pros

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Fast

According to Pingdom Website Speed Test Slicer has a load time of 1.38s while Reddit has a load time of 11.63s.

Pro
Clean interface

Slicer's interface avoids clutter and focuses on discovering and sharing content. Posts are well laid out making it easy to overview all information.

Pro
Federated

Anyone can self-host the software on their own server. Users can join an instance they like.

You can view and comment on other servers (instances) as long as the instance you are on hasn't blocked the other instance.

Pro
Simple and fast interface

Pro
Open-source

Pro
Shows both number of upvotes and number of downvotes, not just total

If someone has some unpopular opinion you can still see some people upvoted it and therefore appreciated it (so you can decide to read it).

Pro
Problematic instances can be blocked

If the moderation of a certain instance is not good, other instances can block it.

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A rich ecosystem of third party clients and software

See the awesome lemmy github repo.

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Cons

Con
There's just one dev working on the site

While Slicer is a passion project for the site's only developer and there are no real issues currently, the rate at which the site improves and how it is handled is solely in the hands of one man. One point of failure may be an issue for some.