Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#1

Post by justicejames » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 7:04 PM UTC

What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

Re: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#2

Post by nikivi » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

Reason Digg faded was that Reddit decentralized moderation across subreddits. Although there are still some global rules set by Reddit (no drug sourcing is one I personally disagree with).

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy is federated Reddit. It's also open source just lacks community. Some things are also already better like more performant front end. If I was to bet on something to overtake Reddit, it would probably be it.

Re: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#3

Post by SubGenius » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 7:39 PM UTC

I'm building Gurlic. Wouldn't want to call it the next reddit, though.

https://gurlic.com

Re: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#4

Post by icedchai » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 7:47 PM UTC

Maybe Usenet can have a comeback.

Re: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#5

Post by techer » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 8:26 PM UTC

Hacker News

Re: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#6

Post by wow_why » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 8:39 PM UTC

Parler

Re: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#7

Post by karmakaze » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 9:04 PM UTC

Things with subs (Usenet, Reddit) are not comparable to things without (Digg, HN). I don't know of a significantly growing successor to Reddit.

Re: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#8

Post by joecool1029 » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 9:04 PM UTC

icedchai wrote: post #4

Maybe Usenet can have a comeback.

It sorta has been since a few years now. However, moderated groups will always face the spam problem. Spammers only forgot about it for some years because ISP's rarely include access these days (and text groups had been fairly dead by that time).

Re: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#9

Post by meowster » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

wow_why wrote: post #6

Parler

Coincidentally, yesterday, I wrote a comment about looking to see if Parler would be a good alternative:

"I click on the top alternative, Parler, and the root page redirects to some advertising page about the site.

Whereas if I go to the root page of reddit, I get content.

I think that's a huge turn off for alot of people.

Show interesting content, and let the product speak for itself.

If you go to Hacker News, you see content, you don't see a page explaining why Hacker News is great.

I just closed the Parler website rather than figure out what hoops I have to jump through to see content and what it's like."

Re: Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg?

#10

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 10:00 PM UTC

nikivi wrote: post #2

Reason Digg faded was that Reddit decentralized moderation across subreddits. Although there are still some global rules set by Reddit (no drug sourcing is one I personally disagree with). https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy is federated Reddit. It's also open source just lacks community. Some things are also already better like more performant front end. If I was to bet on something to overtake Reddit, it would probab…

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