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It has quite a reputation from back in the day, but I find Something Awful to have a very high level of dialogue, probably because you have to pay a small fee for membership, and they aren't afraid to probate/ban people.
Usenet. It's a shame it's been mostly abandoned. In so many ways it was reddit long before reddit even existed, and was superior to it in so many ways.
Isn't that mostly a result of UI/UX problems? IRC has fostered a good community of tooling. But the content side of Usenet seems to have been completely ignored, outside of file sharing.
Ctrl-F "digg", no results. LOL. rip
It is different enough from modern Reddit that I wouldn't call them competitors anymore.
Use https://i.reddit.com . It's basically the craiglist view of reddit built for mobile. Super fast and no fluff.
Usenet. It's a shame it's been mostly abandoned. In so many ways it was reddit long before reddit even existed, and was superior to it in so many ways.
Isn't that mostly a result of UI/UX problems? IRC has fostered a good community of tooling. But the content side of Usenet seems to have been completely ignored, outside of file sharing.
My impression was that Usenet was abandoned mostly because it had a ton of spam, and at the time there was no good solution to that.
These days, spam is not nearly as much of a problem, so the only obstacles to its adoption of it are most users' ignorance of it, their psychological dependence on their web browsers as their primary online communicaton tool, and most importantly the network effects of reddit and other web forums being much more popular.
* Voat.co * Quora.com * Slashdot.org
Usenet. It's a shame it's been mostly abandoned. In so many ways it was reddit long before reddit even existed, and was superior to it in so many ways.
It's a shame.
alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die will never be forgotten.
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…
> Reddit scrubs the identity out of many communities/topics. In my experience Reddit moderators do this, not Reddit. For some reason heavy handed moderation is now the norm across every medium-large sized subreddit. I don't know if it's a cultural thing, there's some top-down pressure, or the nature of the kinds of people who become (and stay) mods. But I'm finding it more and more the case where mods feel the need t…
Just use 4chan