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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?
#122I thought it would be a good exercise to see what was out there (give other sites a chance), so I started following suggestions others have made. This is the list I currently have compiled. https://lemmy.ml/ ( https://join-lemmy.org/ ) : ideal reddit replacement https://www.tiktok.com/ : from a purely entertainment value. This is number one. I was on TikTok last year and it was basically the only entertainment site I…
> https://www.4chan.org/
I don't browse it anymore, and there are some really terrible boards, but if you can sift through a lot of the nonsense and memespeak, there are a lot of interesting folks on there with nuanced opinions or knowledge on more obscure hidden gems of your interest. There have been some valuable knowledge dumps there in the past, and a lot of boards have a dedicated wiki/pastebin full of great information.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#123I'm sad there isn't any talk about nostr on here. Even if Reddit dies and everyone moves to Lemmy or some other alternative it's only a matter of time before something similar happens to Lemmy. Sure with Lemmy it wouldn't be all controlled by one company, but your data is still locked behind whatever Lemmy instance you posted it on.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#124The problem is our kicking off point is reddit the community and not reddit the link aggregator. We've forgotten its humble beginnings.
What we need is to go back to basics and develop a simple link aggregator with basic federation. So that anyone with a federated node account can follow links posted to it, without having a local account.
Then of course each link posted can spawn a discussion, but no need to have that in the first version of the software. These discussions can take place in a decentralized space for the time being. Giving the software the advantage of simplicity.
For example the ActivityPub object Actor does not have to be a person, but rather a category of the link aggregator.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
> so posts from those platforms seamlessly appear in the feeds But not vice versa. Lemmy users cannot visit kbin.social magazines with capital-letters. Lemmy doesn't understand that capital-letters could exist in a name.
Kbin is planning on fixing the case-sensitive-ness: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/81 Kbin in general is super new software, there's a lot of nits that need fixing like this. It works surprisingly well considering how young it is.
Thanks for this.
I'm new to the Fediverse, so I don't know if kbin was planning on fixing their processing or if Lemmy was planning to switch to case-sensitive.
I guess devs are deciding upon case-insensitive largely across the Fediverse?
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#126I'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…
Works very well for me too. Also, I see a lot of people here saying lemmy and other alternatives to reddit will not attract as many users as reddit. But maybe that is a good thing? Being a popular hangout on the internet seems to be a curse more than anything from my observation over the last decade. If an alternative reaches an amount of active users similar to the early years of Reddit, I would call that a win.
Definitely! It has a kind of nice close-knit feel right now that I appreciate. I'm bumping into a few of the same users in different areas.
There was also a funny comment I read early on after joining, something like "only true Redditors aren't on Reddit" in reference to the earlier Redditors leaving in hopes of finding what was lost as it became more mainstream.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kbin is planning on fixing the case-sensitive-ness: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/81 Kbin in general is super new software, there's a lot of nits that need fixing like this. It works surprisingly well considering how young it is.
Thanks for this. I'm new to the Fediverse, so I don't know if kbin was planning on fixing their processing or if Lemmy was planning to switch to case-sensitive. I guess devs are deciding upon case-insensitive largely across the Fediverse?
> I guess devs are deciding upon case-insensitive largely across the Fediverse?
That's my understanding, but I'm just a spectator.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#128We must return to tradition and post only on niche phpBB forums
Asked this on another post as well, but is there something similar to phpBB, but using the Reddit/HN “tree” style for comments? I miss some of the old forums I used to be part of, but do think the tree style definitely has it’s advantages.
Lemmy.
Except Lemmy also adds in the Fediverse stuff, so there's a bit of drama with Beehaw.org and whatever. But as far as Hacker News types go, you probably should just sign up at programming.dev and have fun. (Programming.dev is its own Lemmy).
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"Lemmy" is roughly the threaded-chat style PhpBB-like web-app where you can create your own users and create your own subreddits (now called communities), and talk with everyone.
The Fediverse part comes in because programming.dev talks to beehaw.org, and both sides can crosspost, cross-comment, and seemlessly communicate with each other. But Beehaw.org is scared of new-users (such as those from Lemmy.world), and has cut off Lemmy.world visitors from their site.
So there's a bit of drama to resolve in the "greater Fediverse". But as far as "unique new instance", programming.dev is probably what you want.
If this whole federation / sharing of posts / sharing of communities works out, great. If not, programming.dev can sit by itself in a silo like the old phpbb forums.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#129There'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!
I got 10 invites. How can I sent you one?
If you don't mins, I would like one. Email is in my HN about page.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?
#130There'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!
I got 10 invites. How can I sent you one?
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