Today's subreddit strike showed me just how reliant I've become on reddit including my local subreddits and adding site:reddit.com to all my web searches.
Going forward, are there any good comprehensive alternatives to reddit?
Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit
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#2Nothing that is at the same scale as Reddit. The only real alternatives are niche forums which have been around forever now.
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#3I’ve seen https://tildes.net/ pop up but it’s invite only atm I think, would totally be down for an invite from anyone here though :)
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#4There are some listed here,
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#5Scale comes with time and engagement - right now, nothing is at the same scale. If the API costs, accessibility issues, and lackluster mod tools issues are not resolved in a timely and amicable manner, the scales will change as they have done time after time.
The current VC investors should also consider if the existing CEO is fit for the role, given their apparant personal attacks and defamation against a third-party developer, and the public proof that these were unwarranted.
A lot of the existing alternatives skew to the left or right of the political spectrum. The ideal platform would welcome all, and not witch hunt one or the other. Tildes seems to fit that but is invite only. Squabbles also, but it's not /quite/ the same as Reddit.
Forums are the way to go for now.
What I would love to see is a hand-picked curated list of forums, a la dmoz but for social, with reviews.
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#6Comprehensive? No. Nothing even comes close to the scale that reddit has for the niche that Reddit has.
For local things, consider instead Facebook groups and nextdoor... not that I think that those are good alternatives. There may be a slack channel or discord group too - though those fill different (but often similar) roles.
One of the issues that you'll see with this is that you'll need multiple accounts to handle the disparate sites (well, many of them have a sign on with Google or Facebook) - there's no "one stop spot for everything".
And despite claims of power hungry mods on reddit, it becomes clear why something is needed if you spend any time looking at Nextdoor and Facebook.
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#7I've seen Lemmy paraded around, it ha promise but you gotta diy your community. My biggest concern with the fediverse is trust. Trust takes a while to establish.
Looking back, man usenet's format was kinda similar to reddit wasn't it? Usenet with voting.
Idk about y'all but this is actually kinda super fun. I'd love to reintroduce some modernized takes on old school platforms. The internet was more fun before everything got consolidated anyway.
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#8Did you ever hear of groups.google.com? About 30Y older than reddit, the original Usenet groups system started in the late 70s ...
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#10The 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 :)