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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by jcmontx »

lb4r wrote: post #164

Somewhat related, but I'd love for Apolloapp to break free from the Reddit API and simply become its own thing. It's backed by, depending on how you measure things, probably almost 50% of the Reddit community as it is. With some VC backing, or simply just crowdfunding to start things off, and continuous support from the subreddits that have gone dark, it could very well become a thing.

> probably almost 50% of the Reddit community

This is the loud minority fallacy. I foresee less than 1% of the community actually willing to leave reddit. Spaz knows this. They are just really noisy, but not so many people care about the third party apps.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by zdragnar »

lb4r wrote: post #164

Somewhat related, but I'd love for Apolloapp to break free from the Reddit API and simply become its own thing. It's backed by, depending on how you measure things, probably almost 50% of the Reddit community as it is. With some VC backing, or simply just crowdfunding to start things off, and continuous support from the subreddits that have gone dark, it could very well become a thing.

Apollo has recreated the easiest 5% of what reddit is.

Hosting at scale, content moderation (just the bare minimum to remain legal in various jurisdictions), plus all the internal bureaucracy that is involved in employing more than just yourself or a handful of people (complying with government regulations and paperwork for employee training, salaries, benefits) are all things that Apolloapp is not.

Getting a bunch of people to agree to not use reddit for two days (or longer) is a hell of a lot easier than getting that same number of people to agree to support Apolloapp as the New Reddit.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by brightball »

90% of the time there's a forum for the subject that's a better option anyway. For example, the College Football /r/cfb area is periodically entertaining but the Rivals.com network is significantly better for the same thing anyway.

I found that blocking Reddit as part of the parental controls on my home network was beneficial anyway, considering just how much stuff falls under the umbrella of availability on that site.

As a news aggregator it always felt untrustworthy and slanted anyway.

There's nothing I miss about having it blocked.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by cryoz »

Zetice wrote: post #22

Check 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.

Unfortunately, lack of a website I can use on my desktop browser makes this unusable for me. Also I am not sure any of the user generated content on this app would be discoverable by search engines. I fear it will be locked in forever.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by SkyMarshal »

all2 wrote: post #64
SkyMarshal wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems there are complaints about both dev teams - Kbin devs are apparently fascists or something in that vicinity, and Lemmy devs are apparently tankies or something in that vicinity.

Labels and infighting is easy. I wonder if they are actually fascists or tankies. Also, what is a "tanky"?

Tanky is a far left authoritarian, or apologist for far-left authoritarianism. Roughly the leftist counterpart to fascist.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by rglullis »

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…

There is no need for them to be in the same place, if the different places where they can talk with each other. So like you, I am also expecting people start looking into the the fediverse, disperse around a bit and reconnect. Instead of one global village, we need a globe of diverse villages.

With that said, I opened up https://communick.news on the weekend to try out Lemmy and I wouldn't mind having a few hundred of you there to help me bootstrap it.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by dbsights »

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…

The killer feature imo would be a forum with moderation that only moderates and doesn't censor. Right now Reddit is unusable if you have an opinion contrary to the hivemind. Go on any r/country or r/city and you would be astonished at how far the politics of that sub deviate from the politics of the people who live there.

I'd like to have moderated comments be opt-in. The moderators can exercise their power and label something spam, hateful, or wrong or whatever, and if they do that job well most people will consent to having their perspective limited. But it should always be a choice, and people should be able to choose no censorship at all, or censorship of only the worst content.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by hidden80 »

cryoz wrote: post #184
hidden80 wrote: post #161

4chan? It doesn't touch the scale and breadth of Reddit and I was always a little uncomfortable the handful of times I visited. Maybe because of no-rules /b/ but there are definitely some wholesome boards out there.

Any specific boards you would recommend on 4chan? Are there any other image boards worth using with reasonable discussions?

It's really up to your interests, but I'll say /news/ because that's what I used Reddit for mostly. Here's a handy list: https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan_Boards

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by kybernetikos »

brianmiddleton wrote: post #32
kybernetikos wrote: post #12

Reddit 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…

You can also look at it as discussion forums for pretty much any topic with single sign-on. Think of anything and you'll probably find it plus porn of it on Reddit with a quick search.

The single sign on / all my comments and posts in one place aspect is definitely valuable too, good point.
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