Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

#21

Post by wellboy » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:05 PM UTC

Steemit, upvote via tokens and make money by getting upvotes.

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Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

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Post by kenbolton » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:06 PM UTC

Roll your own: https://github.com/stephenmcd/drum

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

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Post by tjwds » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:06 PM UTC

There isn't one that's going to do everything that reddit does, honestly. You might want to consider breaking down everything you were getting out of reddit that you aren't anymore and pursuing ways to find those things again.

I recently realized that I was spending way too much time on Reddit, so I started only briefly scrolling through Reddit once per day without reading comments, and relying more on HN, twitter, and a few blogs for news. To feed that itch to belong to a community, I started commenting on HN more, and continue to go on JQBX and belong to a few slack channels.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

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Post by wooshy » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:06 PM UTC

Just use 4chan

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

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Post by cheeze » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:08 PM UTC

randomerr wrote: post #4

Other then here, Voat is the best overall. Their source is on GITHub if you want to roll your own. https://github.com/voat/voat If you want to do your own Reddit here are some clones, largely PHP based: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/77bhdx/phpbased...

Voat is utter shit.

The default greeting/nickname on that site for other users is nifa. How is that okay at all?

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

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Post by catach » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:11 PM UTC

sebtoast wrote: post #17

Here's my list of alternatives https://hubski.com/ https://lobste.rs/ https://snapzu.com https://soylentnews.org/ and Voat, Slashdot.

Hubski! I knew there was one I was forgetting.

Also, thanks for the Snapzu and Soylent mentions, those are new to me.

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

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Post by ethagnawl » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:12 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #5

randomerr wrote: post #4

Other then here, Voat is the best overall. Their source is on GITHub if you want to roll your own. https://github.com/voat/voat If you want to do your own Reddit here are some clones, largely PHP based: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/77bhdx/phpbased...

Isn't Voat infested with the_donald refugees?

It would seem so.

Here's a selection of post titles currently on the front page of voat.co:

- Syria chemical attack was false flag operation by US

- Didn't some vegan, muslim, woman shoot up youtube a week ago?

- A heavy redpill from a man who knows what he's talking about.

- Congressional Dick Pics

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

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Post by rurounijones » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:13 PM UTC

cheeze wrote: post #25

randomerr wrote: post #4

Other then here, Voat is the best overall. Their source is on GITHub if you want to roll your own. https://github.com/voat/voat If you want to do your own Reddit here are some clones, largely PHP based: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/77bhdx/phpbased...

Voat is utter shit. The default greeting/nickname on that site for other users is ni fa . How is that okay at all?

> nifa

What is nifa? I am guessing it isn't the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and other organisations that come up on google.

nvm, found it apparently: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nifa

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

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Post by kfrzcode » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:14 PM UTC

catach wrote: post #7

lobste.rs is more of a HN replacement, but there you go.

Love lobste.rs! Their April fools gag was to reskin the whole site as a PhpBB board circa 2004...

Re: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?

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Post by bitexploder » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:15 PM UTC

Reddit scrubs the identity out of many communities/topics. I have found much deeper and meaningful discussion on focused forums. For almost any topic with any significant interest there is a non Reddit forum or community that is deeper and more customized. Not always, but usually. Just support those communities and forums. Example, mtgsalvation is by far better to visit for meaningful MTG deck building and discussion. Subaru forums are another great example. There are plenty of established communities out there.