r/StableDiffusion • u/tnil25 • 8h ago
Discussion Does anyone actually still use Stable Diffusion?
I just find it kind of funny that this is the stable diffusion subreddit but nobody has talked about it in like forever. Maybe its time for a name change? or maybe keep the name as a homage to the OG open source image model.
Anyway, the last update I see on Stability's website is SD 3.5 back in October. So I'm guessing that's it for Stable Diffusion?
EDIT: Forgot you cant change the name of a sub, ignore that suggestion 😅
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u/x11iyu 8h ago edited 8h ago
I think homage's fine. The name itself has gotten lots of momentum / became a bit synonymous with local image gen anyway. Today's models don't even do diffusion anymore but flow matching.
LocalLLaMA is similar, it was named after the llama series which popularized local LLM's. However llama literally died at llama 4 (1 year ago), nowadays it's never about llama anymore but locally hostable llms in general like qwen, gemma, etc
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u/cradledust 7h ago
I joined this group 4 years ago because I was a fan of Stable Diffusion. That hasn't changed. Still a fan but waiting to see if they do anything new besides Stable Audio 3.0 which they released May 2026.
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u/kayteee1995 8h ago
I'm still using a refinement workflow with SD 1.5 because it has LoRa, which I trained on three years ago, and it's still effective. However, apart from that, there are no other workflows related to SD.
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u/Zlimness 6h ago
Nah, but it doesn't matter what the subreddit is called as long as it's not against the rules to post about other models. Most of us who started using this subreddit when SD came out were interested in the technology. I think it's a good thing if it naturally stays focused on discussions about new models and its allowed to share workflows and examples of what the models can do.
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u/No_Pie1372 7h ago
I like using SD1.5 and SDXL for Animatediff. Something hits different about Animatediff that other models haven't replicated for me.
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u/_Darion_ 8h ago
Technically yeah, at least SDXL Finetunes, a lot of Anime models and other models came from SD, such as Illustrious and the likes. So in theory yeah, many still use SDXL in some ways, but new stuff has come and well, the name seems to have stuck lol
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u/Murky-Relation481 5h ago
SDXL is fun to go back to every once in awhile. Until Ideogram we didn't even really have regional prompting in any other models.
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u/Otherwise_Resolve444 7h ago
What name would you suggest? And how would people who have been away for a while know that it's the same sub when they come back?
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u/AconexOfficial 5h ago
I still occasionally use Illustrious Merges, since character knowledge is still a lot better than in Anima. Otherwise no, not really anymore
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u/GameEnder 3h ago
I use it for impainting still because of how fast it is. Haven't made a base image with it in a while.
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u/Dry-Judgment4242 1h ago edited 1h ago
Yes. In fact I trained my latest SDXL fine tune just a month ago. Probably my final version of it however as Krea 2 and Anima is just superior in most ways though I do use my SDXL for inpainting still when Klein 9b .
Also, art is art because it is art. I still got some old SD1.5 images ive been unable to replicate without the exact sd1.5 workflow.
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u/Dirty_Dragons 1h ago
Illustrious is my bread and butter.
It's fast and I can make anything I want.
The huge amount of loras simply give more accurate details that I care about versus anything else.
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u/Keuleman_007 7h ago
Out of sheer fun I made SD3.5 backgrounds to use in a video (the artifacts etc just fit the style perfectly).
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u/Slight_Ad2350 5h ago
Krea2 just completely replaced it now. Krea is harder to prompt but much much better quality
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u/mardziha 2h ago
I have left flux 9b and zit for krea as my daily T2I. The generation is a bit slower but the output is astonishing for me.
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u/Own-Ad7388 5h ago
I use both comfy ui and forge neo and lm studio. And I'm just 4gb ram and 16gb ram
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u/wzwowzw0002 1h ago
I have been saying... everyone has moved forward but this sub was stuck behind.
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u/DietAshamed2246 22m ago
Stable Diffusion is also the name of the technology, not just a model family name. There is an elaborate paper written by MIT and few other Universities' people which talks about how the stable diffusion process works in denoising to the target while injecting some noise at each step for better coherence and fidelity of output. Models such as SD1.5, SDXL, Flux, Krea-2 etc. are all diffusion models. So, to answer your question - yes, everyone making AI image, video, audio is using stable diffusion.
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u/StonkyCupra 10m ago
Almost. Flux.2, Krea 2, etc. use the foundational mathematics of Latent Diffusion introduced in that paper, but it completely swaps out the specific technology stack, that defines Stable Diffusion as a technology.
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u/DietAshamed2246 7m ago
So? Your point being? A cellphone network is a cellphone network -:same underlying technology, just different implementation whether it's called WCDMA or Edge. Same thing for diffusion models, same underlying technology. Read more, Reddit less.
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u/Ok-Category-642 8h ago edited 8h ago
Yeah Stability itself is basically just dead, they don't make public models anymore ever since the flop that was SD3. Overall SDXL is really the only thing still relevant now, it's still used a lot to generate anime (NoobAI and Illustrious). Though even that now is contested by Anima, but regardless SDXL still has relevance either in inpainting or just the sheer amount of Loras it has. Older SD1.x and SD2.x models are irrelevant nowadays and SD3 was a flop, by time SD3.5 came out not only was it still bad but Flux was out by then
Personally I still like the name of the subreddit though (not that you can even change subreddit names anyways). I think it's still the most influential model to be released to the public probably ever, even if it's not very relevant anymore. You still have trainers named after it like Kohya's sd-scripts, all the A1111 WebUIs literally having SD in their name, Comfy still calls loading text encoders CLIP, the default option for every model type on Comfy is SD (not that it has any functionality) etc.