Cada and mould King are very reputable Brands, their parts are equal if not better quality Thank Lego bricks
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Personally I would like this community to be LEGO-only, as the name implies. As an example, Reddit had alternative communities for non-LEGO bricks like mould king and lepin.
I would sub to an alternative community about other brick types, but I think it’s important to keep them separate.
I feel like there's a difference between "lego compatible alternatives" and Lepin-like companies that just take advantage of countries that don't enforce IP laws to explicitly sell stolen designs
I am on the same boat, Brands who do their own stuff=good. Knockoffs =Bad. This elitist Attitude on reddit Was the reason i left this community
Reddit is different though in that there was much more activity. At our current scale, I don't think splintering off into sub-groups would be great. As long as there's a post just about every day here, maybe, I would not want to restrict what can be posted too much. We can always course-correct if off-brand takes up too much space and drowns out the actual Lego stuff, but I don't see that happening for the near future.
There was some discussion about this in another post some time ago: https://lemmy.world/post/238970
To me it seems there's not really a consensus either way on Lego competitors at the moment. I for one am of the opinion that splitting off into multiple communities would not be a great idea for now, seeing how little content there is so far overall anyway. Having a community simply called "Lego" makes for the best discoverability right now, and allowing compatible brands as well just increases the chances of growing the community healthily. We can always change the rules if it becomes a problem.
Edit to add an answer to the other question: I do have quite some experience with alternative brands by now, I've written a little about that here. Not so much with technic-specific alternatives, but from what I'm hearing, that generally positive experience seems to extrapolate to technic offerings as well.
Nice Summary. Thanks!
In your thread-link Admin Lux wrote:
"Offbrand bricks are just fine. The reason I picked the Lego name is because everyone knows it..."
Oh yeah, good catch!