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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by holler »

anadem wrote: post #370
holler wrote: post #156

https://sqwok.im - All posts fully public and google indexed. - Built-in realtime chat rooms instead of threaded comments on all posts, complete with presence, @mentions, markdown support (check faq)(mobile & desktop web supported currently). - Trending based on chat activity and time decay. - Search, notifications, follows, themes, other settings like block a user. - Focus on simplicity, accessibility, usability. Pr…

Doesn't work on the three different browsers I tried just now .. I see only grey bars arranged rather like conversational text posts would be.

hey sorry about that, I just checked and apparently for unknown reasons codepipeline just pushed a commit to prod that wasn't supposed to go out! site broken atm sigh, please check back in ~hour or so and apologies! working on a big change and unsure how it went through.

edit: apparently AWS us-east-1 is down which brought the site down! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315300)

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by hiepph »

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 ?

HN is just for tech. Sometimes I want to discuss non-tech topics. Nowhere is better than Reddit IMO. Discord and chat apps have so many noises that I always feel overwhelmed to keep up with the flow of chatting.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by red-iron-pine »

shagie wrote: post #313
trompetenaccoun wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There may be other factors too, not just popularity and user numbers. It could be coincidental but over the years HN has not deteriorated in the same way as forums like reddit have. I strongly suspect it's in part to due with moderation as well. The hackernews approach is very straightforward and sensible. They only act if really necessary, otherwise users do the housekeeping themselves by flagging and downvoting any…

There's also a few anti engagement mechanics that help run HN. If the comments under posts become too active, it is downrated and disappears from the front page which reduces the rates of people commenting on it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089 You'll also note things like "when the comment is too deep the reply link disappears" which creates a bit more friction for carrying on what would likely be unpr…

don't forget a minimum karma level to be able to downvote

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by rushingcreek »

spacemule wrote: post #252

For tech issues, I recommend stackexchange and the various gpt-based products that repackage it. Phind.com is pretty good, but they're move back to gpt 3.5 has really neutered the quality of answers. For general discussion, there is no alternative, and reddit was not an option even before today. I was active on two non-tech subreddits: /r/judaism and /r/buttcoin. I am a classical liberal politically, but I am also an…

We’ve added GPT-4 back to Phind.

Disclosure: I’m the CEO

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by yellowapple »

mariusor wrote: post #361
yellowapple wrote: post #360

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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)?

> there's no equivalent to a subreddit AFAICT The idea (maybe not very well communicated in the README and other docs[1]) is that each instance would correspond to a "subreddit" with its distinct community. The federated aspect however still allows users from other instances to subscribe/participate. In my personal opinion building services that group multiple interests is a step in the wrong direction creating redun…

Fair enough. For my purposes I only really need a single subreddit-equivalent for my own (prospective) instance; my worry's more around making sure my Brutalinks instance can make sense of the various multi-interest instances/services out there.

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Post by thfuran »

triplepoint217 wrote: post #324
browningstreet wrote: post #169

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I wish we could divide forums into 101 and 202 (as in college levels) streams. Newbies need a place, but I don't want to be their guide (in most cases). Newbie/101 energy kills a lot of places.

Sift ( https://sift.quest/ ) is working hard on doing exactly that. We don't have enough users to actually show it off yet, but at our core we're building around a user reputation/relevance graph that we think will let people curate streams like that. In our model, as soon as anyone you trust in our graph says "this is a 101 type post/comment" we can realize you are not interested in seeing it and de prioritize it in…

Is trust per person or per person per topic?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by kybernetikos »

KnobbleMcKnees wrote: post #107
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…

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

> The link discovery and discussion are one and the same because they are being driven by the same community.

I don't think they necessarily have to be the same thing, but the voting for links to bring quality ones to the top, and the choosing of which site to be looking at today is very much like having a TV channel.

Lots of people find themselves watching films that are being aired on specific channels, despite the fact that they had access to that film for years on a streaming service and didn't watch it. I think of the link discovery aspect of Reddit as similar to an aggregated DJ or TV channel.

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