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Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
> 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
This is not preferable. Extremist bullshit is the only product of echo chambers. Eventually it breaches containment and becomes a real world problem.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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]. This is my biggest gripe about Reddit. Unlike hobbies or interests, I can't change my country of birth or (easily change) the city. So when you get banned from a geographical sub, you have no alternative. Some of t…
>A typical example is /r/india which is totally under the control of radical anti-Modi mods Most geographical subs are extremely liberal leaning. I'm from Hungary and in /r/hungary pretty much 99% of the posts are anti-Orban. Same with /r/europe pushing the general federalist EU agenda [0]. Or just /r/politics for the US, good luck going against the MSNBC meta. 0, which ends up funny when the topic is food and sudden…
Forum sliding and bots may be driving these things. Forums are historically pretty easy to manipulate and Reddit isn't so different from other BBs that have been around for decades now.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#204Somewhat 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 o…
I don't disagree with the difficulty of the task. I'm just saying that IF there would be an alternative, Apollo would probably be the best starting point, at least if one were going for fast scaling.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#205Interestingly, one of the largest started as https://patriots.win/ which was created in the wake of the notorious the_donald subreddit's quarantine and ban. Top posts still get 50-200 comments and 1000+ upvotes, and it seems to have fairly high volume with hundreds of new posts per day.
They branched out to become a general reddit-like alternative with other supposedly neutral and separately moderated subs, but the other ones have far lower activity levels - see their version of /all: https://communities.win/
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#206There may be alternatives to specific subreddits, but there is no Reddit alternative. There is only one macro network like Reddit, and that is Reddit. Maybe that network effect breaks, but I doubt that happens because of this.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#207It doesn't have the hyper-local capabilities that reddit has but metafilter.com deserves a shoutout. It has an established community, has been around for _ages_ and is a good replacement for /r/all and the like.
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a while. Seems to be still going strong. Clickable Link: https://www.metafilter.com/
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's been a little better lately, but their video player kinda sucks ass. Scrubbing usually causes total lock for me, requiring a reload of the entire page. Sometimes the video and the controls will get stuck but the audio keeps playing, even if you fold shut the player on old. It got to the point where I don't bother unfolding the video unless it's embedded.
Hence why 3pa like Apollo are great, it’s video/gif player is (was :’( ) the best.
Honestly, I can't believe it that here it is 2023(!!), and there still exist sites that can't figure out reliable cross-browser video playback.
These sites should just give up, provide the URL to the raw video file, and let users play them back in whatever way works for them.
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#209Earlier 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.
I've heard about the Lemmy dev's politics, but what's this about the Kbin devs?
There was some discussion and links about it in the “Building a Better Rust Community” post yesterday. The post is inaccessible today due the protest against reddit, but will be back tmw.
https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/146qxzn/building_a_be...
Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been burned by Fediverse so badly I will never go back. I joined a Mastodon instance with 3k+ other users and made several hundred posts.. until one day when login failed. Turns out the admin lied about a lot of things (like backups) and an unpaid bill wiped the machine. Migrations are not possible when original server is offline, so I lost many months of content. Running an instance by myself is no fun, commu…
>Migrations are not possible when original server is offline, so I lost many months of content. >Running an instance by myself is no fun, community is the point. I might be missing something (in which case pardon me), but isn't one of the strengths of a federated system that you could "roll your own" just to host your account and then engage on other servers with that account? I'm imagining it as email, and your emai…
This is correct. While it's true that running your own instance is far from simple if you don't have server experience, in my opinion it's the ideal way to interact with the fediverse. I run my own instance, so I know my content is regularly backed up and I have access to the entire fediverse (many larger instances will block other instances at the server level for moderation reasons, so users on those servers are unable to see any content from the blocked instance).
As for community, you have to seek out users on other servers to follow in order to bootstrap yourself, but once you've done that, their posts will federate to your instance and vice versa. You can also go directly to other sites and copy the thread link into your instance to interact with it, or if the site supports it, you can log in via OAuth with your own account and interact natively with the content on the other instance.