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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.
Maybe 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…
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…
This is not a good take for the things that Reddit really excelled at: niche hobbies. Mechanical keyboards, mushroom cultivation, home brewing, just to name a few of my interests. None of that gets much traction on HN, nor outside unless your friends happen to have the same interests. Discord has a bit of that content, but I find Discord harder to engage with because it feels a bit more synchronous and time sensitive…
The real problem is not software but, as many pointed out before, building a community of communities that size is hard.
I'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…
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…
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 se…
I read books now, or the actual material reddit was talking about ("haha who reads the article amirite"), watch a ton of great stuff on youtube, read more discussions + submissions here. My life has improved considerably.
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 it decentralized? While definitely better UX to remain centralized, I think Reddit is clearly showing why that's a problem.
We must return to tradition and post only on niche phpBB forums
I'm surprised "someone" haven't just deployed old Reddit already somewhere. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
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Lemmy seems like the front-runner, but wait. Wait wait wait. lemmy.world is perhaps the new instance where people are joining the fastest. But Lemmy.world was just defederated from Beehaw.org. I think this event is key and serves as a necessary discussion point for anyone jumping into the Fediverse. The rules are different. Beehaw.org has some of the most popular groups on all of lemmy right now (including !programmi…
I am used to reading complicated technical specifications, and my eyes were glazing over midway through reading your comment.
I do not see how an ecosystem where the groups you can join depends on the instance you join is much better than just having every group hosting a phpBB forum somewhere.
The value in reddit was that it provided a 'single pane of glass' for all your interests.