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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by Phrodo_00 »

oDot wrote: post #94

It doesn't exist yet. The best way the solve the platform overreach problem is replicating the podcast model, and transitioning from those platforms to two utilities: (1) Content hosting (2) Content browsing This way, the /r/BikeShedding community can buy a domain, say, BikeShedding.gg, and connect it to a content hosting platform that delivers a standard API + web UI. This is (1). Users will have an app, let's call…

> Podcasts are the pinnacle of decentralization yet I haven't heard once the word "federation" or had to choose an "instance".

This is due to the difference between one way vs 2 way communication. Blogs and podcasts chose the word "syndication" and you use an RSS client to subscribe instead of an instance that can talk back.

What your story doesn't deal with is accounts (not just logins). If you add that you pretty much land in the fediverse model (except in your story every subreddit would run their own userless instance).

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by dsir »

agg23 wrote: post #66
dsir wrote: post #7

It seems like a lot of the suggested alternatives are missing the mark a bit in regards to understanding what Reddit actually is (a community of communities). It seems like a lot of the platforms that are popping up are more akin to being just a huge bucket full of posts with tags opposed to being a collection of communities. They are sort of missing out on capturing the community part. I've been building a platform…

Is it decentralized? While definitely better UX to remain centralized, I think Reddit is clearly showing why that's a problem.

Currently we aren't federated however we are looking into protocols such as ActivityPub. It's certainly interesting. It's possible we could federate our posts however one component of our platform is that communities can optionally gate access behind a membership fee. We are actively targeting content creators to get them to host their communities on our platform and some creators like having the option to have private communities. I'm not entirely sure how that model would fit with federation if we go the route of federating our posts, but it's something I'm certainly looking into.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by Aachen »

trostaft wrote: post #22

There's tildes, whose creator (guy who wrote reddit's AutoModerator) explains it better than I. https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes Only thing is that it's invite only at the moment... And I seem to have too hastily deleted my reddit account to ask for an invite on their subreddit. EDIT: Got one, thanks!

I don't know how to best prioritize invites, because I may want to invite friends, got 3 invites available, and it takes several days for any invites to generate on an account. Yesterday I posted an rot13-encoded invite, for today let me try a random other tactic: if you have a blog, portfolio, projects on codeberg/gitlab/whatever, just some kind of creations online, send your website or profile page to [REMOVED] (literally just send a link as email body, don't need to add more text) and if you're the first, I'll send back an invite, and if you're not, I'll also reply. I will edit this post when it's gone.

Note that I can't email back to Microsoft domains because they block the IP range I'm part of because of previous ownership and they don't give a fuck. Google should work, but treats/misclassifies most low-volume senders as spam by default so be aware to check that. (Haven't had problems with other email hosters.)

My thinking is that someone with online creations is more likely to have something to post, to be a contributor, compared to when I post the invite here for any lurker/voter to grab. Voting is good, but so far I'm kinda missing the broad offering of content on tildes that you'd see on reddit, things like amateur astrophotography in r/space or the OC in r/dataisbeautiful.

Edit: the invite is used, so I removed the email address. One person with a gmail address emailed me, let me know if you didn't receive the invite within a few minutes!

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by robotnikman »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #102
robotnikman wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one really made me go wtf. It reminds me of those early web 1.0 websites with tons of random gifs and colors all over the place. Looks harmless at first but the contents are kinda toxic.

We have fun

Despite the content I will say this: It is much faster than the reddit website despite all the animations/gifs/cats everywhere

Just go to show how bloated reddit has become

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by oDot »

Phrodo_00 wrote: post #111
oDot wrote: post #94

It doesn't exist yet. The best way the solve the platform overreach problem is replicating the podcast model, and transitioning from those platforms to two utilities: (1) Content hosting (2) Content browsing This way, the /r/BikeShedding community can buy a domain, say, BikeShedding.gg, and connect it to a content hosting platform that delivers a standard API + web UI. This is (1). Users will have an app, let's call…

> Podcasts are the pinnacle of decentralization yet I haven't heard once the word "federation" or had to choose an "instance". This is due to the difference between one way vs 2 way communication. Blogs and podcasts chose the word "syndication" and you use an RSS client to subscribe instead of an instance that can talk back. What your story doesn't deal with is accounts (not just logins). If you add that you pretty m…

Very true. Still, it makes a big difference, to omit the jargon and the need to choose an instance. Even if under the hood the technology is the same, the users just know they sign in to an app and it works everywhere.

The content creator/moderator knows that if the hosting service starts acting iffy, he exports everything to a different host, keeps the same domain, no one knows he even moved. Much smoother.

The problem with federation is not the technology, is that the technology is packaged as a platform.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by joshmarinacci »

dsir wrote: post #7

It seems like a lot of the suggested alternatives are missing the mark a bit in regards to understanding what Reddit actually is (a community of communities). It seems like a lot of the platforms that are popping up are more akin to being just a huge bucket full of posts with tags opposed to being a collection of communities. They are sort of missing out on capturing the community part. I've been building a platform…

This looks cool. What's your status? Are you in open beta? What's your monetization strategy?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by downvotetruth »

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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by Backing5890 »

tungah wrote: post #67
trostaft wrote: post #22

There's tildes, whose creator (guy who wrote reddit's AutoModerator) explains it better than I. https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes Only thing is that it's invite only at the moment... And I seem to have too hastily deleted my reddit account to ask for an invite on their subreddit. EDIT: Got one, thanks!

I got 10 invites. How can I sent you one?

Could I get one sent to tildesinvite.yx13z@simplelogin.com?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by notJim »

oDot wrote: post #94

It doesn't exist yet. The best way the solve the platform overreach problem is replicating the podcast model, and transitioning from those platforms to two utilities: (1) Content hosting (2) Content browsing This way, the /r/BikeShedding community can buy a domain, say, BikeShedding.gg, and connect it to a content hosting platform that delivers a standard API + web UI. This is (1). Users will have an app, let's call…

This sounds like kind of how Tapatalk works. Tapatalk forums are fine enough, so it's not a bad model.

I think there's a third piece missing though which is discovery/distribution. On reddit, popular posts from any sub can reach the front page, and perhaps more important, discovering new subreddits is a core part of the user experience. Users share new subreddits all the time, the site constantly pushes you to new ones, and they're easy to find with the search function. AFAIK Tapatalk doesn't do this, and it would probably not be welcome given the expectations they have with existing communities.

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