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Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by dragontamer »

accrual wrote: post #18

I've been happy with Kbin so far. It has a pretty standard sign-up process (username, password, email, verify email), followed by subscribing to a few magazines (subreddit equivalents) and then you're free to browse and post. There's enough new content flowing that I personally don't feel I ever run out of things to browse. It's federated with Lemmy and Mastodon, so posts from those platforms seamlessly appear in the…

> so posts from those platforms seamlessly appear in the feeds

But not vice versa.

Lemmy users cannot visit kbin.social magazines with capital-letters. Lemmy doesn't understand that capital-letters could exist in a name.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by camel-cdr »

soared wrote: post #55

Are there any sites for specific games? I primarily use Reddit for learning/discussing whatever video game I’m currently playing (stardew valley right now). I can’t seem to find a congregation of users discussing it anywhere besides Reddit and tiktok. Same goes for niche hobbies, Reddit seems to be by far the best option.

https://lemmy.ml/c/stardewvalley

This obviously isn't big yet, but communities are forming.

Imho, be the change you want to see, and contribute to the communities you are interested in, so that other people feel more inclines to stay.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by Karsteski »

dsir wrote: post #7

It seems like a lot of the suggested alternatives are missing the mark a bit in regards to understanding what Reddit actually is (a community of communities). It seems like a lot of the platforms that are popping up are more akin to being just a huge bucket full of posts with tags opposed to being a collection of communities. They are sort of missing out on capturing the community part. I've been building a platform…

Sounds very cool, good luck! :)

Question though, how will you sustain this platform? I'd be happy to just pay some small fee per month and have some sort of guarantee that my data is not just being sold to the highest bidder. I'd like to be the customer on some social media platform for once

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by soared »

evdubs wrote: post #31

Maybe not the best, and certainly not as popular as some recommended federated services, but Aether (getaether.net) has been interesting to use. It: - is P2P. Everyone using the app sees the same network; no federation keeping communities separate. This also means that everyone receives information from the network, including posts, comments, and moderator actions. One feature here is that if a moderator is overbeari…

I feel as though it’s not a good Reddit alternative if p2p/federation/pow/etc need to be explained in order to use it.

> Peer-to-peer ephemeral public communities

From their homepage is god awful marketing - I don’t care about what’s under the hood I just want the content.

Tbh also not a fan of deleting content that’s more than 6 months old - a lot of the value of Reddit comes from when you find a new hobby you can look through old top posts to find the best info.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by lucb1e »

codetrotter wrote: post #17

https://zapad.nstr.no/ It’s my instance that I set up. Hoping to get some more people to join it. Here is a post with some info about the instance: https://zapad.nstr.no/post/31

lemmy* instance, for those wondering what it is they set up

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by agg23 »

dsir wrote: post #7

It seems like a lot of the suggested alternatives are missing the mark a bit in regards to understanding what Reddit actually is (a community of communities). It seems like a lot of the platforms that are popping up are more akin to being just a huge bucket full of posts with tags opposed to being a collection of communities. They are sort of missing out on capturing the community part. I've been building a platform…

Is it decentralized? While definitely better UX to remain centralized, I think Reddit is clearly showing why that's a problem.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by tungah »

trostaft wrote: post #22

There's tildes, whose creator (guy who wrote reddit's AutoModerator) explains it better than I. https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes Only thing is that it's invite only at the moment... And I seem to have too hastily deleted my reddit account to ask for an invite on their subreddit. EDIT: Got one, thanks!

I got 10 invites. How can I sent you one?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by calmworm »

darreninthenet wrote: post #59
gnopgnip wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Somethingawful forums is also a community of communities. Each subforum has it's own culture and norms. And they have a pretty good system for dealing with spam, sock puppets. But its $10, not free.

Would you say it's worth it?

It’s a one time cost iirc. It’s been about 20 years.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Post by soared »

camel-cdr wrote: post #62
soared wrote: post #55

Are there any sites for specific games? I primarily use Reddit for learning/discussing whatever video game I’m currently playing (stardew valley right now). I can’t seem to find a congregation of users discussing it anywhere besides Reddit and tiktok. Same goes for niche hobbies, Reddit seems to be by far the best option.

https://lemmy.ml/c/stardewvalley This obviously isn't big yet, but communities are forming. Imho, be the change you want to see, and contribute to the communities you are interested in, so that other people feel more inclines to stay.

Oh that’s great, thank you!
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