Ask HN: What is to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by duskwuff » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 10:10 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…

> Reason Digg faded was that Reddit decentralized moderation across subreddits.

What ultimately killed Digg was the disastrous "Digg v4" redesign in 2010. Reddit's features helped it capture the fleeing users, but it was ultimately Digg's actions that triggered the mass migration, and Digg never really recovered.

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

#12

Post by asymptotically3 » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 10:51 PM UTC

wow_why wrote: post #6

Parler

An alt-right cesspit filled with ads, spam, and scams.

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

#13

Post by jfoster » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

Facebook Groups, unfortunately; much less interesting than Reddit, but touching a far greater % of the population.

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

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Post by 3np » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 12:51 AM UTC

I don’t think there is one (yet?). Apart from already mentioned ones, there is also Urbit, which is different in its own ways.

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

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Post by barney54 » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 1:13 AM UTC

Hacker News. Once upon a time, Digg was good for tech-related news. It became more popular and people switched to Reddit and now to HN. I’m here for the same reason I was on Digg years ago.

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

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Post by schappim » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 1:34 AM UTC

jfoster wrote: post #13

Facebook Groups, unfortunately; much less interesting than Reddit, but touching a far greater % of the population.

Unfortunately you're right. Whenever I speak w/ non-tech folks in a niche, they're part of a Facebook group.

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

#17

Post by ev1 » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 1:38 AM UTC

SubGenius wrote: post #3

I'm building Gurlic. Wouldn't want to call it the next reddit, though. https://gurlic.com

Please put links on the footer in the header too. Infinite scroll makes for unclickable footer links. :)

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

#18

Post by magnora7 » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 2:05 AM UTC

Try out https://saidit.net

It uses the old reddit open source code, and the administration is even based around the pyramid of debate, similar to hackernews.

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

#19

Post by charcuterie » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 2:17 AM UTC

Ruqqus[0]. Its Reddit with a focus on anti-censorship. It was launched in 2019, so the community is not quite mature yet.

As you can probably guess, it is a truly hateful place.

Practically speaking it is essentially (from my observation) a safe space for racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, covid denial, dangerous conspiracy theories, misinformation, etc.

I hesitate to bring attention to the site at all because I don’t want the hate to proliferate, but I suppose it is better to know this exists rather than letting it incubate hate under the radar.

Edit: I also want to say I think anti-censorship is noble and Ruqqus, as a technology, is pretty well done. I think building a non-hateful community on Ruqqus would elevate it to be better than Reddit.

[0]: https://github.com/ruqqus/ruqqus

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 23, 2020, 3:37 AM UTC

charcuterie wrote: post #19

Ruqqus[0]. Its Reddit with a focus on anti-censorship. It was launched in 2019, so the community is not quite mature yet. As you can probably guess, it is a truly hateful place. Practically speaking it is essentially (from my observation) a safe space for racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, covid denial, dangerous conspiracy theories, misinformation, etc. I hesitate to bring attention to the site at all because I don’…

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