Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#42I've been happy with Kbin so far. It has a pretty standard sign-up process (username, password, email, verify email), followed by subscribing to a few magazines (subreddit equivalents) and then you're free to browse and post. There's enough new content flowing that I personally don't feel I ever run out of things to browse. It's federated with Lemmy and Mastodon, so posts from those platforms seamlessly appear in the…
Thanks for your recommendation.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
And it's already been defederated by others https://beehaw.org/post/567170?scrollToComments=true top 3 vs top 2 and top 7 [0] This is the main problem with the whole decentralized system and it won't go anywhere besides being a niche. 0, https://lemmyverse.net/
Not really, at least not if people who share your sentiment start their own instances instead of throwing in the towel. Also, who says it's a done deal? May just be temporary.
I think there's a good chance Beehaw.org refederates with lemmy.world assuming new moderation tools are created magically.
But I don't think there's much of a chance that they refederate with sh.itjust.works.
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So choice of server, as a user, absolutely matters in the Lemmy world. The more curated communities will be treated with a bit more welcoming than the fully 100% open instances like Lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#44There's tildes, whose creator (guy who wrote reddit's AutoModerator) explains it better than I. https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes Only thing is that it's invite only at the moment... And I seem to have too hastily deleted my reddit account to ask for an invite on their subreddit. EDIT: Got one, thanks!
Indeed. I would love to get an invite if anyone has one to share.
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#45Going outside is a really good one. Honestly, I was late to the Reddit train, didn't join until 2015 or 2016 or so. I noticed a marked decline in my overall mental well-being but I really did feel addicted to it. For several reasons I stopped using it a few years ago and I can't think of a single thing that's worse off than before. Unless you're running ads and using traffic from Reddit to fuel your business, you're…
I feel like we use reddit in entirely different ways. I don't use the front page. I'm not subscribed to any main subreddit. I use subreddits to find information about my interests: Individual game subreddits, Financial information, Product reviews.
Does everyone who has strong dislike of reddit stay subscribed to /r/news and /r/worldnews (and others)? I know those subs ruin my feeds and my mood. Otherwise, I don't see how reading something like /r/factorio can decline one's mental wellbeing.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#46Someone said of programming languages that Algol 60 was so great that it improved not only on its predecessors, but also on its successors. I would say the same of Usenet when it comes to Reddit-like systems. In this day and age it could use a few updates but whenever I think of implementing forums, I always come back to Usenet and NNTP as the basic mechanism.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#47It seems like a lot of the suggested alternatives are missing the mark a bit in regards to understanding what Reddit actually is (a community of communities). It seems like a lot of the platforms that are popping up are more akin to being just a huge bucket full of posts with tags opposed to being a collection of communities. They are sort of missing out on capturing the community part. I've been building a platform…
I like the UI a lot; how does the site fare as a long-form discussion place (capturing the forum-like qualities of old.reddit)? I am also interested in native LaTeX rendering in posts and comments; I have not found this anywhere, and lurking at r/math, r/physics and r/compsci has convinced me LaTeX rendering a la mathstodon.xyz is essential for math/physics communities.
Appreciate the feedback. So within each community, the admin can create an unlimited amount of different discussion boards related to the niche of the community. Each post within a board has threaded comment trees similar to reddit where it lends well to long form.
We felt that in order to fully capture each aspect of the community space, we needed to include each different type of communication tool. What I mean by that is we have a twitch style IM chatroom, Discord style voice rooms, and Reddit style discussion boards for longer form communication.
I'm not familiar with LaTeX rendering, but will definitely check it out to see if it's something that we could integrate into our platform.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#48I've found https://kbin.social to be quite ok.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#49Maybe not the best, and certainly not as popular as some recommended federated services, but Aether (getaether.net) has been interesting to use. It: - is P2P. Everyone using the app sees the same network; no federation keeping communities separate. This also means that everyone receives information from the network, including posts, comments, and moderator actions. One feature here is that if a moderator is overbeari…
The ability to ignore moderation is an interesting idea.
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#50It's a bit more work, but I do think that there have always been better communities for most niche topics, but they don't all live in one place. Finding out where the smart/interesting discussions are happening about a topic you're interested in can be a lot of work, but I do find it extremely rewarding.
If you're looking for Reddit for big subreddits, or a way to get a broad overview of a lot of niche communities without necessarially engaging with the individuals in the community, then you'll probably have a hard time replacing reddit. But if you just want to find a place to discuss your 10 biggest interests, I am willing to bet most of them have at least 3 communities outside of reddit that are smaller yet still high quality. I am also willing to bet there are at least 10 that aren't as good.
One of the things I love the most about some of the niche communities I'm a part of -- discords, forums, email groups, physical meetups -- is that I feel like I have a much stronger connection to the people and have a stronger appreciation for the intersection of the community's shared interest and our individual lives.
Maybe this is all a bit too 'touch grass,' as far as advice goes. And if you really are just looking for a feed of good articles on interest X, Y, and Z, like a magazine personalized just for you, then you're going to have a rough time beating Reddit. I still try and curate a collection of high quality RSS feeds these days, but that's a pretty different suggestion.