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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?
Lemmy seems like the front-runner, but wait. Wait wait wait. lemmy.world is perhaps the new instance where people are joining the fastest. But Lemmy.world was just defederated from Beehaw.org. I think this event is key and serves as a necessary discussion point for anyone jumping into the Fediverse. The rules are different. Beehaw.org has some of the most popular groups on all of lemmy right now (including !programmi…
Going outside is a really good one. Honestly, I was late to the Reddit train, didn't join until 2015 or 2016 or so. I noticed a marked decline in my overall mental well-being but I really did feel addicted to it. For several reasons I stopped using it a few years ago and I can't think of a single thing that's worse off than before. Unless you're running ads and using traffic from Reddit to fuel your business, you're…
Which you could say about nearly anything in life.
(1) Content hosting (2) Content browsing
This way, the /r/BikeShedding community can buy a domain, say, BikeShedding.gg, and connect it to a content hosting platform that delivers a standard API + web UI. This is (1).
Users will have an app, let's call it FrontPage, in which they can put it a domain to subscribe to, or pick from a list, exactly like we can use podcasts app today to either add a manual RSS feed or choose from the library of feeds an app offers.
Podcasts are the pinnacle of decentralization yet I haven't heard once the word "federation" or had to choose an "instance".
If someone wants to talk about this more, email to anything at weedon and scott [dot] com. I did apply to YC with this, but it got rejected -- maybe the time is ripe.
Edit: Important to note that this works for all platform overreach cases -- Avoiding YouTube censorship, exiting Twitter's echo chamber, and yes, for Reddit as well.
The problem with federated platforms like mastodon is that they are still platforms, and platforms suck. You replace horses with cars, not with slightly better horses.
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.
Kbin in general is super new software, there's a lot of nits that need fixing like this. It works surprisingly well considering how young it is.
Perhaps the best way forward is to return to traditional, independently-hosted forums, perhaps with some sort of communally-maintained registry so that members of forum x can easily discover a new forum y.
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?
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 l…
> Tbh also not a fan of deleting content that’s more than 6 months old
Agreed. Aether's idea is that the community will hold on to material that is important, likely by reposting.
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.