Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#31

Post by adultSwim » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 3:04 PM UTC

A communication platform needs open transparent democratic governance, like the Debian project.

Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#32

Post by jessehorne » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

They removed Aaron Swartz? You've got to be kidding me.

Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#33

Post by mybestaccount » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 4:08 PM UTC

one2know wrote: post #3

Reddit has become a heavily censored website that supports only one political viewpoint. For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned. This goes for large swaths of society in general where people have gone from free speech advocates to raving lunatics ready to censor, ban, cancel, and fire anyone who does not support their views.…

A "free speech" platform is not enough of a value proposition for mainstream users to migrate. The only people who will be incentivized to move will be toxic/fringe/controversial people and their followings. If you want to make a community for those people, go ahead. See gab.com, voat.com, 4chan.org, parler.com etc... All these places are similar to reddit/facebook/twitter but without censorship. However, the whole point of a "free-speech" platform is to encourage an open exchange of ideas. If you only serve one side of the political spectrum, what ideas are you exchanging? It's just an echo chamber.

My point is that a real competitor to reddit will be highly dependent on some technical innovation that convinces a "normal users" to migrate. Our only hope is that this new platform will be wiser in terms of censorship policies. No normal person is going to waste their time signing up, actively post, check, and sink their time into a platform who's whole pitch is "a twitter/reddit clone with less users, but you can say racial slurs".

Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#34

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 5:05 PM UTC

one2know wrote: post #3

Reddit has become a heavily censored website that supports only one political viewpoint. For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned. This goes for large swaths of society in general where people have gone from free speech advocates to raving lunatics ready to censor, ban, cancel, and fire anyone who does not support their views.…

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Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#35

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 5:33 PM UTC

muzani wrote: post #8

president wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same goes for HN. I'm actually surprised you weren't already heavily downvoted or flagged for hate speech.

Same for all major sites really. Even Sam Altman posted regarding this: https://blog.samaltman.com/e-pur-si-muove

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Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#36

Post by dawg- » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 6:03 PM UTC

I am working on quitting reddit and joining the "homebrew website" camp as the bulk of my online presence. I don't expect it to be the next reddit, because I don't want a next reddit. The internet on social media is big, fast, and dehumanizing. I want the internet to feel smaller, slower, and more personal. I think the only answer is for everyone to build their own website. Unfortunately there's not much money to be made in that.

Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#37

Post by unknownkadath » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 7:15 PM UTC

one2know wrote: post #3

Reddit has become a heavily censored website that supports only one political viewpoint. For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned. This goes for large swaths of society in general where people have gone from free speech advocates to raving lunatics ready to censor, ban, cancel, and fire anyone who does not support their views.…

> For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned.

I would suggest that this is not true.

Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#38

Post by fiftyacorn » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 10:19 PM UTC

Reddit without bots

I'm sick of the dark arts of manipulation of algorithms to present views as normal, even when they work against people's best interests

Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#39

Post by taxcoder » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 11:11 PM UTC

unknownkadath wrote: post #37

one2know wrote: post #3

Reddit has become a heavily censored website that supports only one political viewpoint. For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned. This goes for large swaths of society in general where people have gone from free speech advocates to raving lunatics ready to censor, ban, cancel, and fire anyone who does not support their views.…

> For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned. I would suggest that this is not true.

Which statement are you suggesting is not true? That a ban would not happen in response to that assertion?

Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?

#40

Post by 89XE10 » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 11:11 PM UTC

SirensOfTitan wrote: post #9

I’d really love to see an exodus back to Internet forums. I forged a lot of great relationships while I was growing up on forums, and I learned programming through hacking on extensions for little communities I was running.

Neoseeker was my jam back in 2002-2005.

I remember those times dearly but if I were to be objective I think content and comments ranked by appropriateness is still a superior format than chronologically-based forum threads.