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Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#122It depends what you're looking for. To replace the link aggregation features, I've gone back to using RSS over the past year and I'm pleased with it. I get the same news that is spread across the various subreddits, and often times news sites will report on stuff directly from reddit. For the actually discussions or more niche content, there isn't much. There are some Reddit-specific alternatives popping up, but unle…
>To replace the link aggregation features, I've gone back to using RSS over the past year and I'm pleased with it.
That does replace the literal aggregation feature, but how do you go about finding good sources for your RSS feed?
I'm genuinely asking. I mucked with RSS lightly a decade ago and dropped it largely because of reddit.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#123I see reddit less as a website and more as a collection of communities. Each community has its own set of reasons for hosting itself on reddit vs other locations. Therefore I would predict that in the absence of reddit, not every community would move to the same place. I also noticed that in recent years many subreddits have increasingly been taken over by memes and other low quality posts and so users looking for mo…
>I also noticed that in recent years many subreddits have increasingly been taken over by memes and other low quality posts and so users looking for more substantial content have already moved elsewhere. It's incredibly frustrating to discover a potential new hobby, check out the subreddit, and go to the top posts all time, only to find pages on pages of low-effort crossposted memes that are often barely relatable. I…
This isn't always the case, but I found that if I'm looking for a serious discussion, I gotta find the sub within the subreddit. For movies, there are a few that communicate they are about serious film discussion. But between the 2 or 3 subs on serious film talk, I found truefilm to be more in-depth than not.
Even for cycling, there are about 8 subs that I'm on, and one out of the bunch is strictly focused on serious fitness & performance discussions, whereas the rest are sort of free-for-alls loosely based on the subreddit's sub-genre.
If there are no subs within the subs, might just gotta suck it up and scroll past the memes. Or start a discussion and find like-minded folks to branch off.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#124HN is a well honed functional equivalent to a subreddit... Could it become the centerpiece for a free software self-hosted self-standing subreddit ?
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#125Reddit does two things really: 1. Link Discovery 2. Discussion There are a few options for Link Discovery. I have a bunch of fora and sites hooked up to an rss reader (the old reader, since google shutdown reader) which does pretty well (although I'd like it to do a bit more). The link discovery thing is like the equivalent of having channels on your TV. You can stream any program (website) of a huge number but a cha…
I'm not sure the rss comparison really works. The link discovery and discussion are one and the same because they are being driven by the same community. Significant reaction and discussion of one post leads to more posts extending that premise, and then more discussion, and so on. I don't think replacing Reddit is just about throwing a toolbox at the problem
This is literally what Digg did to self-destruct, in that they basically eliminated user powers and created some automatic feed. And, it died literally overnight.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#126Not entirely related but a few years ago I started a side project with the aim of teaching myself a few new tools, and solving some of the biggest issues I had with reddit. [1] Since then, reddit has addressed a lot of these themselves (crossposting, submitting text and link together) but in quite a bolted-on way. I would love to see a site that rather than just being a reddit clone, takes all of the lessons learnt f…
I totally agree on the general superiority of tags vs. subreddits, and did the same for my Reddit/HN alternative https://zsync.xyz . I can see the case for private communities/forums, but I think tags make more sense for most use cases.
My main complaint with Reddit since the early ~2010s has been the crap post/comment quality. In 2008/9 when I first joined, the comment quality was very high. Then memes, puns, one-liners, and hivemind took over and ruined the site.
An ideal Reddit would be able to show you posts/comments that you're most likely to enjoy, such as via a "sort by" option tailored to you, or other sort by options like an "insightful" that actually works and doesn't just give you low effort one-liners that add nothing to your life.
High quality content in general needs to be better incentivized, and right now it's not. Anyways I have a lot of ideas around that I wrote elsewhere so will refrain from dumping then all here [1]
The challenge with developing a Reddit alternative however unfortunately is not technical, it's overcoming the chicken and egg problem where nobody cares about your site if no one else is on there.
[1] https://jsavage.xyz/2022/03/13/the-downfall-of-reddit-why-re...
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#127I’ve seen https://tildes.net/ pop up but it’s invite only atm I think, would totally be down for an invite from anyone here though :)
Tildes is great but it's a lot more analagous to HN than reddit.
The moderators are limited in number and absolute in power, you can't make new subs (I asked for a few and was declined), and the community is more tight and discussion-oriented (which is a good thing IMO, but I never quite felt like I fit in so I don't comment often).
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#128I don't use reddit directly as a user, but last night I was googling a tech question that had a bunch of
relevant results in Reddit threads... only to find that the relevant subreddit had been put into "private" mode in protest of API changes, leaving the content inaccessible.
So even though I don't necessarily pull up Reddit just to read, it does provide a good archive of questions and answers or other useful explanations in search engine results and losing that old content would be tough.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#129Check out an app called Artifact, if you're looking for that infinite scroll on published articles relevant to you. It's made by the original founders of Instagram, and they're using AI in some interesting ways, e.g. rewriting clickbait headlines. Their Reader View is nice too, though I wish I could set it as default on each page open.
> Check out an app called Artifact, if you're looking for that infinite scroll on published articles relevant to you. Artifact is interesting, but it's an alternative to something like Google News or Apple News vs. a Reddit substitute.
Depends on what you used Reddit for.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use https://raddle.me/ but it's small for now. They seem to have a much better approach to moderation; the moderation logs are open and admins don't let them go full authoritarian. But the API is lackluster. It's open source however so hopefully it should improve I always envisioned some kind of reddit where you could simply appeal moderation actions through a dedicated report system and if some mod goes above and…
I'll save a bunch of people some trouble. This is a politically-"leftist" site (top current thread is "How did you get into anarchism", along with something about ACAB). It's not really a general purpose Reddit alternative. So, if that's your thing, check it out. If it's not, probably not a good fit and the "better approach" to moderation probably won't go in your favor.
> This is a politically-"leftist" site (top current thread is "How did you get into anarchism", along with something about ACAB)
tbh how is this different than most subs?
this is a feature, not a bug...it keeps these people out of the real world and glued to their keyboards where their blast radius is limited to their own echo chamber