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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by kraftman »

Not entirely related but a few years ago I started a side project with the aim of teaching myself a few new tools, and solving some of the biggest issues I had with reddit. [1]

Since then, reddit has addressed a lot of these themselves (crossposting, submitting text and link together) but in quite a bolted-on way.

I would love to see a site that rather than just being a reddit clone, takes all of the lessons learnt from reddit over the years as a base and better enables these communities and discussions.

[1] https://github.com/kraftman/TenTags.io

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by [deleted] »

guerrilla wrote: post #45
redmerchant2 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Kind of like in real life. Shitty people have more resources.

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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by ozarker »

I’d like to think that people might use this opportunity to move to distributed options like rss with forums operated independently or maybe federated alternatives but neither of those options are easy enough from an end-user standpoint to get traction against the next big link-aggregator site

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by all2 »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #30
lucasyvas wrote: post #27

The one being promoted the most on migrations subreddits is Kbin (particularly kbin.social for sign-up). It federates with Lemmy as well - apparently some folks think the Lemmy devs have questionable moral character so decided not to promote Lemmy as a primary option (hell if I know, didn't look into it). That Kbin instance is getting slammed and trying to scale up right now - many identical /r/{subreddit} are now av…

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"?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by worrycue »

guerrilla wrote: post #52
worrycue wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slashdot is really more like HN's predecessor. Mostly tech news focused. It faded in popularity after Digg became a thing and allowed all sorts of topics.

It was around long after Digg became a thing. It's downfall was being bought by Dice media.

I remember it being a thing before Digg too. I visited it less after Digg got popular.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by PMunch »

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've been having this exact same idea. Basically a way for any RSS reader to discover comments from anywhere. Of course you run into the problems of moderation and latency, but I believe some clever systems around prefetching and shared lists of verified and banned users could work.

But the main problem I've run into for link discovery is the voting system. If you actually want a distributed system counting votes becomes expensive fast.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by haunter »

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.

>See how the alt right infiltrates gaming groups

Goes both ways (if you insist to use the traditional political compass). GCJ is a perfect example of that. I use the "terminally online" word for these people rather.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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Post by zigman1 »

Glench wrote: post #14

God what a mess. If anyone else is interested I made a browser extension you can use to batch delete your Reddit posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit... Let me know how it works for you if you try it! Still fixing bugs.

I really hope not a lot of people does that. Looking for knowledge or guides i don’t want to be stuck with the worst part of the internet as what blogs have become. There’s a reason all of us are using site:reddit.com.
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