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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?

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It 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…

Is the content crawable? Can it be discovered via search engines like reddit?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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post #7

It 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…

Somethingawful forums is also a community of communities. Each subforum has it's own culture and norms. And they have a pretty good system for dealing with spam, sock puppets. But its $10, not free.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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post #7

It 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…

Is the content crawable? Can it be discovered via search engines like reddit?

Yeah, that was a key design decision from the start. All posts and comments made on the platform are indexable by search engines.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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Are there any sites for specific games? I primarily use Reddit for learning/discussing whatever video game I’m currently playing (stardew valley right now). I can’t seem to find a congregation of users discussing it anywhere besides Reddit and tiktok.

Same goes for niche hobbies, Reddit seems to be by far the best option.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

#56

It'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 wi…

Are there gaming communities for specific games? (Ie runescape or stardew). Tiktok seems like the only other option.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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post #5

Going 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…

Were you looking at the really big subreddits, or were you looking at smaller subreddits like r/boardgames, r/cooking, r/gardening, r/woodworking, etc.? I do agree about the bigger subreddits, but not about the smaller niche subreddits.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

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post #7

It 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…

Somethingawful forums is also a community of communities. Each subforum has it's own culture and norms. And they have a pretty good system for dealing with spam, sock puppets. But its $10, not free.

Would you say it's worth it?

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

#60
post #44

There'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.

you'll need to expose a way to send it to you
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