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

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Post by codingcodingboy »

oDot wrote: post #94

It doesn't exist yet. The best way the solve the platform overreach problem is replicating the podcast model, and transitioning from those platforms to two utilities: (1) Content hosting (2) Content browsing This way, the /r/BikeShedding community can buy a domain, say, BikeShedding.gg, and connect it to a content hosting platform that delivers a standard API + web UI. This is (1). Users will have an app, let's call…

I agree with you completely, I always found federated platforms confusing to use and they still run into the same problems that billion dollar platforms have without the resources to solve or mitigate them.

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

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Post by dsir »

joshmarinacci wrote: post #117
dsir wrote: 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…

This looks cool. What's your status? Are you in open beta? What's your monetization strategy?

Thanks for the feedback.

I've been building this with a friend in our free time over the past few years. We are in an open beta right now. We are definitely a bit guilty of delaying promoting it in favour of trying to polish things however the recent Reddit news really pushed us to start getting the word out. This project has really been a labour of love for me.

In regards to how we plan to monetize, just gonna repost this message I sent in another comment thread:

> One of the key design decisions was to bake in different methods for monetization within each community so that the community admins/mods can get paid. We take a minority cut of each transaction to help fund the platform.

> Each community has the ability to offer tiered monthly membership plans and can optionally gate individual pieces of content, or the entire community behind the memberships (the content gating part is a work in progress). We are also adding the ability for users to pay to bump posts and buy comment awards which the revenue is shared with the community owner. Basically we are looking at adding ways for the communities to make money in ways that don't come at the detriment to the community itself.

> We are also exploring offering a platform wide subscription fee that would give users some additional benefits as well however we haven't fully fleshed this out yet.

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

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dsir wrote: 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…

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

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Post by marcosdumay »

haunter wrote: post #26
gman83 wrote: post #11

I joined this instance: https://lemmy.world/ So far, so good.

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/

Oh, man. The thing about people creating a community where you must speak nicely or else they will disconnect you is that they will disconnect from people.

It's actually great that they can. And if they think a slower gated community is the best for them, well, let them be. I can't imagine how this constitutes a failure of lemmy.

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

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Post by cunningfatalist »

trostaft wrote: post #22

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!

Getting an invitation is rather easy. Just write a nice email and explain why you would like to join.

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

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Post by FemmeAndroid »

soared wrote: post #56
FemmeAndroid wrote: post #50

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.

Tons! I am in active discord communities for specific characters in various fighting games, some general fighting game discords, a local one. Plus two other smaller games that I’m interested in.

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

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Post by nosecreek »

dragontamer wrote: post #128
nosecreek wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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). ----------- "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 t…

Lemmy definitely looks interesting and I should really give it a shot, but while the fediverse stuff adds a lot of value I think it also makes it a lot more complicated. I think the tech stack matters too - running old forums on a LAMP stack made them pretty easy for a lot of people to setup on cheap hosting. When I go the "Run a Server" section in the Lemmy docs it immediately starts talking about Docker, etc. which I think is a much bigger barrier to entry for those who want to host an instance.

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

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Post by friend_and_foe »

I've been checking out some of the reddit alternative software as of late, not so much the many different servers and communities around. Ones I've liked:

Kbin https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

Lotide https://sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide

Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Brutalinks https://sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks/

Those all (are supposed to) federate. I don't think federation in these communities is always ideal, drive by posting and what not, I think a better approach would be a client that can read your followed stuff from a local list. But some non-federating options are:

StackerNews https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news

Comment Castles https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

freedit https://github.com/freedit-org/freedit

There are lots more, some are great some not. There have been quite a few posted on this site in recent days. Some communities really just need forums or wikis, link aggregation and content voting aren't really always necessary.

I do believe communities should host their own sites. Some communities just don't have the interest to be viable long term, and Reddit was a way to externalize cost so that non viable communities can continue to exist. We see the results of that now, a company that isn't profitable due to bearing costs that nobody else is willing to bear squeezing users to try to stay afloat. This was always a temporary state of affairs. If you can't find a single community member dedicated enough to keep a VPS running, or with large communities, you can't scrounge up enough money from donations or whatever to keep the server running, that community simply isn't viable.

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

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Post by tester457 »

jibbit wrote: post #97
malfist wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What?

On my phone: old.Reddit ~15 posts/page, new.Reddit ~5 posts/page, lemmy ~2 posts/page

I don't see why people prefer these new slow web apps instead of something fast like HN.
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