Mastodon is often mentioned as an alternative, but it has its own problems. In my opinion, the biggest one is that there is no way to sort your feed like you can on Lemmy. A chronological timeline will always lead to quantity being prioritized over quality. That’s why newer users in particular only see boring stuff. If you bring this up, you’re guaranteed to get some Madison fan saying that Mastodon doesn’t want to be like Twitter, and especially doesn’t want to have an algorithmic feed. But then it’s not and cannot be an alternative.
Mastodon is often mentioned as an alternative, but it has its own problems. In my opinion, the biggest one is that there is no way to sort your feed like you can on Lemmy. A chronological timeline will always lead to quantity being prioritized over quality. That’s why newer users in particular only see boring stuff. If you bring this up, you’re guaranteed to get some Madison fan saying that Mastodon doesn’t want to be like Twitter, and especially doesn’t want to have an algorithmic feed. But then it’s not and cannot be an alternative.
No reason why a fork couldn’t do that though. Why build a whole new platform? Or why not use ActivityPub?