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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by yellowapple »

mariusor wrote: post #17
yellowapple wrote: post #10

The Fediverse/ActivityPub world has a few options: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps#use... Lemmy is the best-known in that list, but Kbin and lotide both look pretty promising, too - making my decision of which to spin up as a personal instance much more challenging :)

Brutalinks doesn't? It's right there at the top. :P

Those three were the ones I was able to try out (and that seemed to work reasonably well). Do you have a sample Brutalinks instance running somewhere? If so, then happy to give it a whirl and add it to my list of options :)

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by gremlinsinc »

liotier wrote: post #124

HN is a well honed functional equivalent to a subreddit... Could it become the centerpiece for a free software self-hosted self-standing subreddit ?

lobsters could, it's much better in some aspects as it's kinda like a self hosted subreddit and it's open source(rails). dev.to might be another good option, it's also open source.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by nerdponx »

wott wrote: post #311
nerdponx wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know Reddit search isn't great, but the ability to search at all is useful. Compared to e.g. Discord where threading is weak at best and searching is borderline useless because it's a chatroom, not a forum. Reddit is a low-effort replacement for traditional forums, solving several problems of traditional forums: 1. One account for all communities. Nobody wants to make 100 accounts, whereas it's really easy to just…

> Easy discovery of new communities I never understood this point. Reddit provides zero discoverability.

Does it? Search for $topic on Reddit and you are guaranteed to find forum posts related to $topic, and very possibly at least one forum (subreddit) dedicated thereto. On the broader web, there's no guarantee of finding anything at all. Plus you can look at other people's subscriptions and posts to see what they follow. And sometimes you can just take a wild guess and go to /r/$topic and it will be what you're looking for. It's definitely better than zero.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by deafpolygon »

nerdponx wrote: post #336
deafpolygon wrote: post #327

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> Basically every major and minor city in the USA has its own subreddit And how many are actually run by the city government?

None, but what does that matter? These are community-created microforums, which probably wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for Reddit.

Many community-created pages for cities are run BY the city themselves on Facebook. That's my point.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by wahnfrieden »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #349
wahnfrieden wrote: post #292

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anarchism is not leftism

it is if it's anarcho communism or syndicalism but not capitalist aka neoliberalism. But it's isn't necessarily left of mainstream progressives it's a different left with different goals, ideals, etc... I'm personally a syndicalist socialist leaning anarchist but pragmatic too in that I don't think we can tear down capitalism completely or even want to instead DAOs and worker coops need to gain strength, as does labo…

here is an interesting reading list with anti-left / post-left anarchism references: https://raddle.me/wiki/reading (and not just "ancap" capitalist libertarianism which doesn't belong)

I'm still learning but am trying to start a worker coop as well

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by wesapien »

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…

Some subs can't have images or ban memes. It's the fault of mods if content is LQ. The tools are there. Some subs won't let you post if you're account is new or you have low karma. What Reddit should've done is delete the free karma or karma farming subs.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by nathansherburn »

setgree wrote: post #47

My ideal reddit alternative is spending less time on my computer and more time on in-person interactions. We can look for and/or build Reddit substitutes, but just my 2c, this is a fine prompt to question not just the instantiation but the concept itself.

Amen. I stopped using Reddit when their new website got released a few years back. Not for any ideological reason, just because their new anti-user patterns killed my enjoyment there.

I've never been happier having stopped using it!

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by mariusor »

yellowapple wrote: post #351
mariusor wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brutalinks doesn't? It's right there at the top. :P

Those three were the ones I was able to try out (and that seemed to work reasonably well). Do you have a sample Brutalinks instance running somewhere? If so, then happy to give it a whirl and add it to my list of options :)

There is a demo instance where I test the latest code[1], but my purpose as a developer is to make the project better not to admin/moderate a discussion platform. My hope was that communities come together and put up their own servers.

[1] https://brutalinks.tech

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by samsquire »

_fs wrote: post #285
samsquire wrote: post #148

Reddit is just one place I read content. The other is https://lobste.rs/ I am always looking for interesting technical content to read. I want to learn. I would like to read your technical blog! If you don't have a blog, then you could try what I do, I promise it's minimal effort and easy to maintain and host and it costs nothing financial (except time you use to write) Go to GitHub, create a repository and tick the…

It appears that you need a invitation code to lobste.rs?

That's right, I don't have an account, I just read it, I would love to be able to comment on lobste.rs but I don't have anybody to invite me :'(

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by yellowapple »

mariusor wrote: post #358
yellowapple wrote: post #351

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those three were the ones I was able to try out (and that seemed to work reasonably well). Do you have a sample Brutalinks instance running somewhere? If so, then happy to give it a whirl and add it to my list of options :)

There is a demo instance where I test the latest code[1], but my purpose as a developer is to make the project better not to admin/moderate a discussion platform. My hope was that communities come together and put up their own servers. [1] https://brutalinks.tech

I dig it; you've made my self-imposed task of "figure out which of these I like best" that much harder lol

Noticing that it's more like HN than reddit, in the sense that there's no equivalent to a subreddit AFAICT. Fine for my purposes, but are there any implications around that when it comes to federating with e.g. Lemmy or Kbin (which very much do have subreddit-like subtopics)?

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