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

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Post by dragontamer »

nosecreek wrote: post #138
dragontamer wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

A word of caution: Lemmy has a serious number of bugs in its web front-end. A lot of "spinning forever" bugs instead of reporting errors, and other such issues.

I don't know how solid the backend is, but instances are crapping out on ~10,000ish users on smallish dedicated servers, suggesting severe bottlenecks in the code. Current discussion seems to suggest RAM bottlenecks and a lot of swapping.

Lemmy wasn't quite ready for the #RedditBlackout. But I think its still in a "workable enough" state to experiment with. Some communities (ex: Beehaw.org) are worried about growing faster than needed (human-side scaling, not machine side). Since Beehaw.org is trying to recruit specific kinds of people / posting patterns.

So I guess what I'm saying is... Lemmy tech stack is good enough for Beehaw.org. I dunno if its good enough for Lemmy.world (which is very "Reddit-like" in open enrollments / ease of community making).

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

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Post by throw9away6 »

Niksko wrote: post #27
pc86 wrote: 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…

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 mushroom forms and the home brew friend are much better

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

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Post by pc86 »

Niksko wrote: post #27
pc86 wrote: 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…

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…

Re: Discord I've felt exactly the same but was never able to articulate quite this well. When I remember to open the app and after the initial shock of seeing literally thousands of notifications across several dozen channels, it feels like I can only meaningfully interact with whatever conversations happen to be going on at that particular time.

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

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Post by pc86 »

unpopularopp wrote: post #36
pc86 wrote: 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…

Says the account with 21k karma which puts them in the 0.1% on HN. lmao

This account is well over a decade old, I think that's something like 5 or 6 points a day? Literally one or two meaningful comments a week will do that over a decade. The above comment has over 40 points, I guess I'm good for a few months now!

And am I the only one that finds this kind of response creepy? It says to me that you didn't like my comment for $REASONS, so you went to my profile to try to find something you could bring up. If it wasn't the karma it would have been the age of the account or some poorly aged comment from years ago.

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

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Post by _spooky_ »

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!

Curious to know why it's invite only.

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

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Post by gnopgnip »

darreninthenet wrote: post #59
gnopgnip wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Others mentioned it's a one time cost.

You can lurk and read most forums without an account, decide if its a good fit or if it has things that interest you.

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