reddit.com is a popular one.
No, it has tons of fillers and memes.
Everybody knows you stay away from the defaults and stay on the smaller subreddits. There are a lot of small, specialized subs that have a great community.
Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
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Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#22no-frills? hahahaha. yeah, sure. "why wont you marry the right person" etc. top articles.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#23http://metafilter.com
I just visited and the top post this month is http://www.metafilter.com/163757/Emotions-are-Work , which was the most anti-male comments I've been exposed to in a while. The name meta filter implies to me this site wanted to be somewhat neutral and open-ended, but my impression so far is it's become dominated by SJW types, which is going to make it unreadable by me.
Then don't read it.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#24I've always thought that a simple HN-like site directed at those of us interested in art, critical theory and literature would be wonderful. Does anybody know of one? I would be interested in helping set one up...
One of the difficulties is that artists and academics tend to be very protective of interesting sources as I think intellectual individuality is much more of a currency than in the tech world.
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#26I like the topic boards of 4chan. The general stuff like /b/, /r9k/ and /pol/ is pretty crappy. But stuff like /fit/ helped me a lot. No voting karma crap, just anons posting stuff, read what you like, hide what you hate. the end.
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Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everybody knows you stay away from the defaults and stay on the smaller subreddits. There are a lot of small, specialized subs that have a great community.
Any examples?
I'm not OP, but https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ is a good example.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#28I've always thought that a simple HN-like site directed at those of us interested in art, critical theory and literature would be wonderful. Does anybody know of one? I would be interested in helping set one up... One of the difficulties is that artists and academics tend to be very protective of interesting sources as I think intellectual individuality is much more of a currency than in the tech world.
I would be interested in this. I come from an art background and many people use aldaily.com to get a sort of curated collection of articles. But adding the voting from HN would be interesting.
That said, you are right that academics are protective. Much of what they are actually interested in is pay-walled as well.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#29https://soylentnews.org/ is slashdot clone, but tidier.
Re: Ask HN: What are other minimal, all-content, no-frills discussion sites like HN?
#30Pick a topic, find the subreddit for it. If you don't like the vibe there, make your own subreddit and moderate it -- or offer to help mod the primary and let them know it's because you want to change the vibe -- lots of mods really don't have the time to do a great job.
Go advertise your "just like /r/floobinart but with more zimbledings" sub everywhere to get people to come to it.