Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

Post by carlosjobim » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 4:21 PM UTC

voramok wrote: post #41

aquova wrote: post #24

It 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…

What RSS reader would you recommend?

Post by kimbernator » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 4:22 PM UTC

redmerchant2 wrote: post #39

tensor wrote: post #26

I would love to see an alternative that really focuses on moderation. Perhaps something that has three flavours of subs. 1. Public: these would be democratically run forums. The users would actually be able to vote for moderators, and perhaps even rules around them. This would be ideal for things like r/[country] or r/[city]. 2. Private: these would be traditional forums run by the people who found them. It should al…

Democratically voted mods will never work for any moderately sized forum. The problem is the forums would be brigaded by terminally online “interest groups.” See how the alt right infiltrates gaming groups. The reasonable voices are outnumbered and taken over.

Post by thesuitonym » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 4:23 PM UTC

jhallenworld wrote: post #57

For technical discussion groups: USENET. Either moderated newsgroups or even unmoderated ones for obscure enough topics. Spam is the issue, but not much spam on USENET these days. Also, the ham radio guys like groups.io, which is where yahoo groups migrated to. There are a lot of groups there on specific things, like Yeasu FT-857D transceiver. Groups.io has per-group file storage, which is handy for this. Anyway on U…

Post by robbyking » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 4:23 PM UTC

dabluecaboose wrote: post #94

sharperguy wrote: post #44

I 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…

Post by scrollaway » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 4:24 PM UTC

SkyPuncher wrote: post #136

scrollaway wrote: post #103

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You and GP can send me an email for an invite (see profile).

Thank you so much! I sent you an email. As an aside, do you get a bunch of spam from having your email semi-public?