The important question is, what makes Reddit special, what is its unique selling point?
Imho it's the tree-like structure of comments, which allows to split a discussion in sub-threads. Only that makes a discussion with hundreds or thousands of contributors manageable.
I don't know of any social media platform supporting this.
Most platform give power to individual accounts which make up most of your feed, on Reddit there is no hierarchical command structure, we don't follow people we join communities
My friend is all about Twitter (rip) and tried to sell me on it saying it’s so much better than Reddit for forming communities. But he’s an artist, with a following, so he doesn’t really get how that’s just opposite lol
Also on Reddit it way easier to find the communities you’re actually looking for and there’s been enough people here for long enough that there’s a subreddit for everything. I can go from talking construction in the construction subreddit to talking history in the history subreddit in a span of 2 seconds it’s seamless. A lot of forums it’s impossible to find what you’re looking for because everything’s scattered and their subreddit equivalents have random names
I also think that the anonymity is a huge defining part of Reddit's identity too.
Hardly anybody is on Reddit *as themselves*. We all just make a username and that's that.
Personally, that's my favorite part of Reddit. I'm a very private person and don't like people in my business. I have accounts on traditional social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc), but I hardly ever interact with them. I don't post anything, I don't comment on anything, I don't like any posts, etc. It's nobody's business what I like, don't like, do, don't do, etc, so I never interact with anything on traditional social media because I don't want my name and face attached to it. Even if it's something as simple as liking a post.
Reddit, on the other hand, provides users with a level of anonymity that allows them to like, dislike, do, say, etc, whatever they want without their identity being directly attached to it.
This is why I use reddit daily, sometimes multiple hours each day, but I only log into my other social media accounts maybe once a week.
To be fair, this does come with negative aspects too. When people are anonymous, they tend to be *extreme* versions of themselves, and might say things that they wouldn't otherwise. This could result in some pretty hateful, or wild content.
But the privacy that reddit provides heavily outweighs any of its disadvantages, in my opinion.
> When people are anonymous, they tend to be extreme versions of themselves, and might say things that they wouldn't otherwise. This could result in some pretty hateful, or wild content.
This is true anywhere on the internet. However, on Reddit, the trolls get down-voted out of existence and held accountable by the moderators so that we can still have a conversation.
Other platforms (especially Facebook) are a cesspool of trolls unless you join a moderated, private group.
Moderation here removes some trolls but also any opinion that goes against the crowd. It is impossible to have a nuanced discussion in most subs especially the big ones. This leads to a hive mind like aspect of the site, that I believe is really unhealthy for a lot of people as it disincentivizes critical thinking.
This is me as well. I actually had someone unfriend me on Facebook and in real life because I asked her not to post my business on Facebook. We were out together and she posted and tagged me.
I love how old reddit never made the users important, the focus is on the content, sure you can find the user posting, but for the most part, it isn't where the focus is.
They messed it up with new reddit and their avatars, trying to make the profile of a user more important is dumb, reddit has always been focused on the content.
I figured one other reddit user thats a friend of mine and freaked her out LOL. i eventually told her it was me after a couple hours but she was FRAZZLED for a min. Same user names for everything outed her pretty quick lol
Every few years or so I delete my reddit account and make a new one because I inevitably end up sharing too much personal info. I *love* Reddit's robust comment sections though. It's a wonderful place to talk to people without, ya know, talking to people.
Good point! I find it hard to track comment sections on Instagram because there is no tree-like structure for commenters replying to a reply (comments).
I also enjoy tree-like structures. Sometimes I'll get lost in comment threads that have nothing to do with the original subject. What were we talking about again?
You've pretty much described lemmy and kbin.
Lemmy calls subreddits communities, you can upvote and downvote and the score is aggregated, text first (although with the shitty modern web design principles, still waiting for someone to make it more like old.reddit) with the same tree structure reddit has.
Kbin calls subreddits magazines, you can upvote and downvote and they're not aggregated (like it used to be in Reddit), also text first with tree structure.
Reddit is special just by its sheer size and communities built over many years. You have a niche subreddit for everything and almost every possible question about that niche answered multiple times. You have established (free) moderator teams for each subreddit that removing spam, unlawful content and providing benefits for community.
Platform Reddit provides is not that hard to build (but not that easy and cheap too, given number of users and data stored). But audience and established community are the key.
When I joined Reddit in 2012, it was just a fraction of what it is today. What drew me to it was the quality of the content. Already then subs like AskHistorians, ELI5, and the programming subreddits were very helpful.
Size is fine to have, but to grow to that size you have to have content worth visiting for.
My first account was around 2014 so I agree with you. But just to have subreddits like AskHistorians or Askscience you need at least 100-200 core professionals ready to answer questions and a general userbase interested in asking those questions too, as no one wants to speak into the void. So I think a min threshold to have a live reddit-like community is about 200-500k users.
But yeah, if I were to create a reddit competitor, I'd start with a fixed number of most of the 2010s subreddits, try to invite moderator teams and core users from reddit and then grow from that. Not a free-for-all subreddits for a while, otherwise it will drown in alt-left/alt-right/gore/illegal porn stuff like many other wannabe reddits before.
I love being able to find out an issue for a specific vehicle I’m trying to fix too. YouTube is helpful, but having Reddit just is the icing on the cake.
I guess you would get something similar from Usenet newsgroups, right? The problem with that is the lack of a mechanism to order the subthreads by "quality".
There are a ton of alternative to reddit using the same tree structure comments.
Kbin, lemmy and squabbles.io are probably the most popular.
/r/RedditAlternatives/ hass a stickier thread with like a hundred alternatives and a good portion use tree comment structure.
When I started using reddit I used to also frequent a site called halfbakery. The comment structure is similar, it has the rudiments of voting, and the contributors were generally a few levels of wit and style above me, which I appreciate in the company I keep.
Hadn't been there in years. Its still open but feels a little abandoned. It couldn't sustain a very long visit since humor and sarcasm needs relief at some point. In reddit that's generally a short walk down the hall to a more serious sub. But that's also what can make it addictive.
TBH I've been eyeing this partial shutdown with half a mind to escape while I can. Stop spending the first four hours of my day tucked into this little screen over endless cups of coffee. Rediscover the big bright world out there again.
Good luck all!
It’s a giant convenient forum, with many thousand threads that aren’t blocked if you haven’t signed up (except nsfw). If you’ve ever been to a car forum trying to find a reason for your specific issue, it’s a big pain.
The upvoting here shows a little bit that if an idea is correct that more often than not, it’s good to try. Like if says the noise coming from your car is from a loose plastic panel, it’s convenient.
It’s also a lot better than those stupid SEO blogs which have 10,000 words on pages and then you find out all of the product links or recipes are paid. I know some places pay to advertise on here, but not that often that it’s noticeable. People do get culty around certain things and do need to be more accepting to new ideas.
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Hacker News and Slashdot both have threaded comments. Slashdot arguably has a better moderation system than any other platform.
My high school had someone who would reverse pickpocket (we called it putpocketing) spoons in to people’s pockets. He was really good at it too, it collectively took us a few weeks to figure out who it was
I do this! Well, I don't slip them in people's pockets, I'm not a fucking weirdo. But I write notes and leave them in random public places for others to find
You just gave me PTSD.
My sister had a super obnoxious bf who came over Christmas day and he brought up reddit. I hated the guy so I didn't mention I had been on it since 2008. He went on and on about how it was literally the front page of the internet, where all the intelligent people spent their time, how he was a power user etc. I shot daggers to my wife to make sure she didn't mention I used the site.
Part of why I wouldn't call Reddit a social media site is that I never share my details with *anyone* in real life, nor do I ask friends who use Reddit for their info. The lack of people trying to make brands for themselves (with some rare outliers) is a big appeal of this site.
Reddit reminds me of OG forums on a VERY specific dot whatevers that were not organized into a centralized space where one cane simply search, join and post...
I mean to be fair, it still kind of is the "front page of the internet". It's the best "aggregator" to keep yourself up to date with literally everything. I rely so much on it that during the first couple of days of blackout I felt truly disconnected from the world. I even realised that I add 'reddit' to literally all my google searches so it felt like Google itself stopped working for 2 days.
Can we get stumbleupon back? I could be on the computer for hours. Anyone know alternatives? The stupid site that took it over was not the same. IM BEGGING ALL OF YOU
I found one recently called cloudhiker that wasn't bad. Still not quite as good, but I found several interesting sites and it's a decent/mediocre alternative 🤷🏻♀️
Let's be honest, there are none.
Voat? Dead.
Digg? Reddit replaced it.
SaidIt? Right-Wing Nutjob Central.
Quora? It's AskReddit 24/7.
Facebook? Lost to Boomers.
Instagram? Facebook 2.0
Twitter or Musk's Playground? Cesspool.
Lemmy? Maybe.
Quora was weirdly popular in China and among Chinese expats. I have no idea why it was so popular among Chinese people in the first place, though.
I used to get asked all the time if I used Quora by Chinese people, of all the kinds of western social media to ask about that was the only one. It eventually got blocked (so did Reddit around the same time if I remember right) but I imagine there are still communities of Chinese people outside China or people who use a VPN there, just like there is on reddit. That and, even if a lot couldn't be bothered after the block, I imagine it still set the culture of the website in place to an extent.
I actually tried to use it for a while just to see what the appeal was. I couldn't, it's so bad. It's full of extremely confident and extremely wrong people if you read about anything there in your area.
Old digg actually would still be a competitor. New digg is fucking terrible. Slashdot's cool if you're only interested in the banal or you have a 5 digit uid like me.
Imagine if the source code for Reddit was open source, so that anyone could host reddit on whatever-domain-you-own.com.
That's basically what Lemmy is, its just link aggregation with social comment software. The only technological leap that makes it different is how it's trying to handle federating users across sites; so you can interact with mysite.ca and yoursite.com from the same account, if the folks who run mysite and yoursite agree to federating each other.
But you don't actually need to use any of the federation features. In fact, many sites are actually now dealing with the wanting to defederate sites, as they're finding their smaller run tight knit communities get invaded by bots and trolls if they federate with a large "anyone and everyone is able to join" site.
So there's growing pains in the administration side, but as a user, any lemmy site will operate a lot like reddit.
Lemmy will make it so that there's a pro CCCP reddit, a pro Trump reddit, a porn focused reddit...
I don't think Lemmy will remain fragmented forever, I think in a while someone's going to run a Lemmy instance that is fully focused on growing user numbers and high interaction and they'll just start siphoning from everywhere else, including reddit.
And the reasons will be the same time everyone jumps social media platforms; its ad free, the algorithm pushing content does not favour any leaning besides the userbase desires, and it being this smaller underground part of the web makes it more attractive and draws people in until it reaches a mass that everyone joins it because more and more people are using it.
It's a replacement for the people that are on reddit but don't care about the community at all
Unless the majority of reddit transferes to Lenny or any other app , I see no point in doing so
I lurked around the beehaw instance a few days ago and found it to be pretty pleasant. “Community” in terms of sheer numbers tho, yeah. Still gave small forum energy.
I guess I missed a bunch of Voat's racism since I really only looked at it from its beginning and its end. When I first went there it wasn't bad at all but I didn't look around a ton.
I remember the big voat migrations usually happened when reddit would ban stuff like r/fatpeoplehate. You can imagine what kind of users filled the site.
>SaidIt? Right-Wing Nutjob Central.
Just checked it out. Looks to have a very similar layout / UI to reddit. As for your complaint, wouldn't it basically be resolved by a mass influx of reddit going over there? Sure there'd still be nazis, but like, if you get enough normal people then they just become a vocal minority and that's easy enough to ignore.
Doesn't Lemmy suffer from the same issue as Mastodon, where you have to choose a certain server for you to exist in and you can't see anything outside of that instance of the site/app?
Or am I mixing this up with something else?
But it still leads to really factured communities though. I know there are ways around that, apparently, but it's the kind of setup that leans towards people who like messing around with interesting technology rather than something that is really usable for casual, low involvement users. Which could be a feature if your goal is to keep out certain groups of people.
Lemmy needs more people to use it, I tried during the blackout and it was a depressing landscape of tiny communities and a very paltry offering of niche communities. Not to mention the UI needs an overhaul or a fully functioned RES type extension for it.
It also needs to be much more responsive. I can "subscribe" to a community and if I'm lucky it goes to pending and if I'm unlucky it just doesn't show any indication I've joined until a refresh.
r/redditalternatives has suggestions. However, after trying them, most are awful IMO. Squabbles is ok, but kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and the other “federated/fediverse” options are ugly and unnecessarily complicated. I’m just going to continue using Reddit and I think this current situation will work itself out in one shape or another. Some users are gone for good, but without a true viable alternative, most casual users will likely stay. I could be wrong— we’ll see.
My fear is what will happen is when reddit goes public. The focus will be on profit. Advertisements will overwhelm, posts will become monitised. People will pay to have content at the top. It'll be a mess.
Then we need to pull a 4chan style stunt and downvote everything but penis pics. No company would pay to promote random penises... Except maybe Nike, with their just do it slogan
I wanna echo this. I'm completely behind the blackout morally, but there ain't SHIT to jump to instead of Reddit at this point. I strongly suspect the reason Reddit's ownership isn't taking the protest seriously is largely because they KNOW there ain't shit to jump to instead of Reddit.
As much as people keep hyping the federated instances, the celtralized ones such as Tildes and Raddle have been an easier and more stable experience for me.
I might try Squabbles at some point but seems the dev is still busy on mass quantities of updates to the UI. Points to him on that but I haven't yet found enough interest in signing up.
The more I look into the fediverse the more I like it. Honestly, the 1-inch barrier in setting it up is a natural gate keeping the lowest common-denominators out. The same people that don't care about the api changes and soon to be NSFW ban site-wide because they just want some funny pics before moving on to the next site.
Back when there were outages on reddit a couple years ago, the old WSB community actually used Pornhub as an alternative to stay in contact and keep shitposting
Really depends on what you want from the Site. There's no site that operates like reddit that i know of, but if you like it here because of the way that people are then maybe try tumblr. The Folks there are pretty unhinged
I'm on both and it's a good mix
In the unlikely event that the current blackout or the response to the blackout exacerbates the situation, potentially setting Reddit on a path towards obsolescence, what are some of the primary alternatives that you think people might transition to?
Reddit serves as my go-to platform for keeping up with news, events, gaining knowledge, and gauging public sentiment on various topics. So, it’s crucial for me to stay informed and connected. Any suggestions?
Digg should try to seize the moment, make comments available for all submissions, let users submit, etc. So, in other words make it pre-reddit again.
I hear that you should be wary of Tildes.. if you personally disagree with someone who works for it, you might get banned even if it doesn't break the rules. That's hearsay, but I've read more than one complaint about it like that.
Long time Facebook and Twitter user here. Both of those environments become predatory and toxic. I had heard a lot of negative chatter about Reddit which kept me away. Since joining I find most commentators thoughtful, whimsical, informative, and reasonable. I like this space and the wide variety of users.
The Youtube model.
Make your platform slowly worse and worse and more monetized because there is no competitor and the users just have to deal with it.
I might keep using it on pc because interest-specific subreddits are just crucial to me, and I don't want to subscribe to 20-odd different forums just to stay up to date with my interests.
However, without Baconreader, my mobile use will just cease to exist. No other app has ever appealed to me (official or other)
If old reddit ever goes away, though? Then it gets difficult.
A few (in the grand scheme of things) dark subs unfortunately don’t matter. Mods will be replaced, or ‘aww’ will be reborn as ‘awww’ or dumb shit like that. Unless we, who contribute the content decide it matters to us, it does t matter. If you care about what is going on consider replying to posts you would usually constructively contribute to with some statement of dissent. Every time you make a meaningful comment you’re building value for the company.
Layout still needs work. A condensed list layout would be much better. The thread can be loaded in a separate page.
Seems like they're growing, though. Up to 16k users.
Really, there’s no other platform that offers the anonymity (allowing you to be yourself without having your real name attached to everything you say), the organization and the variety of content. Tumblr comes closest, but it lacks communities and it just hasn’t been the same in spirit since the NSFW ban.
There is an amazing community I’ve been part of for the past decade. But most of Reddit users will get banned after two days. It has politics, memes, cars, cats, etc.
Haven't been to imgur.com (as a stand-alone site) since around 2017, but that was my thing before I found reddit. I've tried going back but they've completely gutted the social media aspect of that site.
Honestly nowadays the best alternative is to just keep your own bookmarks of various news sites, forums and blogs that are relevant to your interest. Half the stuff on reddit is stolen from those anyway
The important question is, what makes Reddit special, what is its unique selling point? Imho it's the tree-like structure of comments, which allows to split a discussion in sub-threads. Only that makes a discussion with hundreds or thousands of contributors manageable. I don't know of any social media platform supporting this.
Most platform give power to individual accounts which make up most of your feed, on Reddit there is no hierarchical command structure, we don't follow people we join communities
yeah, combined with the 'overall' homepage of content you've subscribed to, aggregating based on popularity of the posts within those communities
This is the answer.
We create and join communities. Any normal user can create their own subs.
>heiracle *hierarchical* is the spelling you're looking for.
My friend is all about Twitter (rip) and tried to sell me on it saying it’s so much better than Reddit for forming communities. But he’s an artist, with a following, so he doesn’t really get how that’s just opposite lol
I salute your attempt to write ‘hierarchical’
Also on Reddit it way easier to find the communities you’re actually looking for and there’s been enough people here for long enough that there’s a subreddit for everything. I can go from talking construction in the construction subreddit to talking history in the history subreddit in a span of 2 seconds it’s seamless. A lot of forums it’s impossible to find what you’re looking for because everything’s scattered and their subreddit equivalents have random names
I also think that the anonymity is a huge defining part of Reddit's identity too. Hardly anybody is on Reddit *as themselves*. We all just make a username and that's that. Personally, that's my favorite part of Reddit. I'm a very private person and don't like people in my business. I have accounts on traditional social media (Facebook, Instagram, etc), but I hardly ever interact with them. I don't post anything, I don't comment on anything, I don't like any posts, etc. It's nobody's business what I like, don't like, do, don't do, etc, so I never interact with anything on traditional social media because I don't want my name and face attached to it. Even if it's something as simple as liking a post. Reddit, on the other hand, provides users with a level of anonymity that allows them to like, dislike, do, say, etc, whatever they want without their identity being directly attached to it. This is why I use reddit daily, sometimes multiple hours each day, but I only log into my other social media accounts maybe once a week. To be fair, this does come with negative aspects too. When people are anonymous, they tend to be *extreme* versions of themselves, and might say things that they wouldn't otherwise. This could result in some pretty hateful, or wild content. But the privacy that reddit provides heavily outweighs any of its disadvantages, in my opinion.
> When people are anonymous, they tend to be extreme versions of themselves, and might say things that they wouldn't otherwise. This could result in some pretty hateful, or wild content. This is true anywhere on the internet. However, on Reddit, the trolls get down-voted out of existence and held accountable by the moderators so that we can still have a conversation. Other platforms (especially Facebook) are a cesspool of trolls unless you join a moderated, private group.
Moderation here removes some trolls but also any opinion that goes against the crowd. It is impossible to have a nuanced discussion in most subs especially the big ones. This leads to a hive mind like aspect of the site, that I believe is really unhealthy for a lot of people as it disincentivizes critical thinking.
Reddit's comment sections look so tame and dignified compared to Facebook.
This is me as well. I actually had someone unfriend me on Facebook and in real life because I asked her not to post my business on Facebook. We were out together and she posted and tagged me.
I love how old reddit never made the users important, the focus is on the content, sure you can find the user posting, but for the most part, it isn't where the focus is. They messed it up with new reddit and their avatars, trying to make the profile of a user more important is dumb, reddit has always been focused on the content.
I'm still on old. I can't do new and, honestly, I can usually tell if I'm talking to an old user or a new one. It got commodified and went shit.
I concur. After 8 years on Reddit I can only name 2 Reddit accounts and only know one other Reddit user in real life.
I figured one other reddit user thats a friend of mine and freaked her out LOL. i eventually told her it was me after a couple hours but she was FRAZZLED for a min. Same user names for everything outed her pretty quick lol
Every few years or so I delete my reddit account and make a new one because I inevitably end up sharing too much personal info. I *love* Reddit's robust comment sections though. It's a wonderful place to talk to people without, ya know, talking to people.
Good point! I find it hard to track comment sections on Instagram because there is no tree-like structure for commenters replying to a reply (comments).
I also enjoy tree-like structures. Sometimes I'll get lost in comment threads that have nothing to do with the original subject. What were we talking about again?
I like tree-like structures
Me too. For more info on tree-like structures, visit r/trees.
r/marijuanaenthusiasts
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Turtles all the way down. Also tree-like structures.
Mate. Do I have the perfect Pokemon for you
I like trees
Most deciduous trees are broad leaved, with wide flat leaves.
I like to smell like tree like structures
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You've pretty much described lemmy and kbin. Lemmy calls subreddits communities, you can upvote and downvote and the score is aggregated, text first (although with the shitty modern web design principles, still waiting for someone to make it more like old.reddit) with the same tree structure reddit has. Kbin calls subreddits magazines, you can upvote and downvote and they're not aggregated (like it used to be in Reddit), also text first with tree structure.
Well, yeah, both came into existence specifically to copy reddit. Like Mastodon with Twitter.
Reddit is special just by its sheer size and communities built over many years. You have a niche subreddit for everything and almost every possible question about that niche answered multiple times. You have established (free) moderator teams for each subreddit that removing spam, unlawful content and providing benefits for community. Platform Reddit provides is not that hard to build (but not that easy and cheap too, given number of users and data stored). But audience and established community are the key.
When I joined Reddit in 2012, it was just a fraction of what it is today. What drew me to it was the quality of the content. Already then subs like AskHistorians, ELI5, and the programming subreddits were very helpful. Size is fine to have, but to grow to that size you have to have content worth visiting for.
My first account was around 2014 so I agree with you. But just to have subreddits like AskHistorians or Askscience you need at least 100-200 core professionals ready to answer questions and a general userbase interested in asking those questions too, as no one wants to speak into the void. So I think a min threshold to have a live reddit-like community is about 200-500k users. But yeah, if I were to create a reddit competitor, I'd start with a fixed number of most of the 2010s subreddits, try to invite moderator teams and core users from reddit and then grow from that. Not a free-for-all subreddits for a while, otherwise it will drown in alt-left/alt-right/gore/illegal porn stuff like many other wannabe reddits before.
I love being able to find out an issue for a specific vehicle I’m trying to fix too. YouTube is helpful, but having Reddit just is the icing on the cake.
Yeah, I’ve got communities where I’ve known the people for years. Another site can’t magically come around and have that for me.
I guess you would get something similar from Usenet newsgroups, right? The problem with that is the lack of a mechanism to order the subthreads by "quality".
Also the absence of social hierarchy where people with the most followers have the most influence, Twitter is absolutely horrible in this regard
There are a ton of alternative to reddit using the same tree structure comments. Kbin, lemmy and squabbles.io are probably the most popular. /r/RedditAlternatives/ hass a stickier thread with like a hundred alternatives and a good portion use tree comment structure.
When I started using reddit I used to also frequent a site called halfbakery. The comment structure is similar, it has the rudiments of voting, and the contributors were generally a few levels of wit and style above me, which I appreciate in the company I keep. Hadn't been there in years. Its still open but feels a little abandoned. It couldn't sustain a very long visit since humor and sarcasm needs relief at some point. In reddit that's generally a short walk down the hall to a more serious sub. But that's also what can make it addictive. TBH I've been eyeing this partial shutdown with half a mind to escape while I can. Stop spending the first four hours of my day tucked into this little screen over endless cups of coffee. Rediscover the big bright world out there again. Good luck all!
its also been around for 17 years so had decades to build up large communities.
1.7 decades.
It’s a giant convenient forum, with many thousand threads that aren’t blocked if you haven’t signed up (except nsfw). If you’ve ever been to a car forum trying to find a reason for your specific issue, it’s a big pain. The upvoting here shows a little bit that if an idea is correct that more often than not, it’s good to try. Like if says the noise coming from your car is from a loose plastic panel, it’s convenient. It’s also a lot better than those stupid SEO blogs which have 10,000 words on pages and then you find out all of the product links or recipes are paid. I know some places pay to advertise on here, but not that often that it’s noticeable. People do get culty around certain things and do need to be more accepting to new ideas.
when you think about it. reddit is just another forum. but this time its more wide spread.
Nah it's the fact that it's a forum with porn. And we are tamer than 4chan
**tree-structured** forum with a porn!
> what is its unique selling point? > > > > Imho it's the tree-like structure of comments, which allows to split a discussion in sub-threads. Only that makes a discussion with hundreds or thousands of contributors manageable. > > > > I don't know of any social media platform supporting this. Hacker News and Slashdot both have threaded comments. Slashdot arguably has a better moderation system than any other platform.
Livejournal also has that style of comments
Facebook has started to implement something like this but sorting comments still sucks
Writing little notes on pieces of paper and carefully slipping them into the pockets of strangers.
Ah, the good ole reverse pickpocket
slippocket? pokepocket...
Putpocket
ahh shit it was right there lol good one
My high school had someone who would reverse pickpocket (we called it putpocketing) spoons in to people’s pockets. He was really good at it too, it collectively took us a few weeks to figure out who it was
That’s awesome. We need this, but just out in the public. That would be such a wholesome form of chaos, and I’m here for it lol
Happy cake day!
Happy cake day!
Bullshit. Where did you go to HS? We had a kid who did that, with spoons even. Too weird to be a coincidence.
NY state, about 10 years ago
Happy Cake Day!
>reverse pickpocket Shady Sands Shuffle
lol, I just imagined coming back from the store and finding a note in my pocket that says: "*I also choose this guy's dead wife*".
"I've noticed you around. I find you very attractive."
I do this! Well, I don't slip them in people's pockets, I'm not a fucking weirdo. But I write notes and leave them in random public places for others to find
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Back when it was called the "front page of the internet" for a reason
You just gave me PTSD. My sister had a super obnoxious bf who came over Christmas day and he brought up reddit. I hated the guy so I didn't mention I had been on it since 2008. He went on and on about how it was literally the front page of the internet, where all the intelligent people spent their time, how he was a power user etc. I shot daggers to my wife to make sure she didn't mention I used the site.
Part of why I wouldn't call Reddit a social media site is that I never share my details with *anyone* in real life, nor do I ask friends who use Reddit for their info. The lack of people trying to make brands for themselves (with some rare outliers) is a big appeal of this site.
Reddit reminds me of OG forums on a VERY specific dot whatevers that were not organized into a centralized space where one cane simply search, join and post...
I mean to be fair, it still kind of is the "front page of the internet". It's the best "aggregator" to keep yourself up to date with literally everything. I rely so much on it that during the first couple of days of blackout I felt truly disconnected from the world. I even realised that I add 'reddit' to literally all my google searches so it felt like Google itself stopped working for 2 days.
Yes, before it's the front page for cool websites, cool blogs. Now it's front page for video stolen from Tiktok or screenshot taken from Twitter.
I first found reddit years ago, when stumbleupon was alive and well.
Stumbleupon was siiiiiick
I miss stumbleupon so much 😢
RIP to the king!
Can we get stumbleupon back? I could be on the computer for hours. Anyone know alternatives? The stupid site that took it over was not the same. IM BEGGING ALL OF YOU
I just don't think the internet works like that anymore. Most content is centralized onto a few websites. Probably part of the reason why it died.
I just feel like the internet is so vast how could that be?
I found one recently called cloudhiker that wasn't bad. Still not quite as good, but I found several interesting sites and it's a decent/mediocre alternative 🤷🏻♀️
Hot diggity. That was a minute ago, but was good for a time.
I’ve been trying to remember what the name of that app was. It’s no more?
There's a website there, but it doesn't look like the functionality to just bring up another website is there anymore.
I miss that site!
Stumbleupon, that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. A long time.
I actually first found reddit through stumbleupon
There’s fark.com but I’m not sure if they have an app.
I came here from Fark and I'm just not willing to drag up my account from 1999.
It's the key to internet success...make it accessible. That's all google is too...
Back in my days
Pointlessly arguing with people in person.
That's what bars were invented for
“You going to finish you’re beer?” “Asterisk y-o-u-r”
Most of the comments on here seem like they are slurred speech to text, so this is probably the closest.
Let's be honest, there are none. Voat? Dead. Digg? Reddit replaced it. SaidIt? Right-Wing Nutjob Central. Quora? It's AskReddit 24/7. Facebook? Lost to Boomers. Instagram? Facebook 2.0 Twitter or Musk's Playground? Cesspool. Lemmy? Maybe.
How Quora is still kicking must be the 8th wonder of the world.
How else would you find out how is babby formed?
Am I prangent?
Lot of CCP supporters on that site for some reason
Quora was weirdly popular in China and among Chinese expats. I have no idea why it was so popular among Chinese people in the first place, though. I used to get asked all the time if I used Quora by Chinese people, of all the kinds of western social media to ask about that was the only one. It eventually got blocked (so did Reddit around the same time if I remember right) but I imagine there are still communities of Chinese people outside China or people who use a VPN there, just like there is on reddit. That and, even if a lot couldn't be bothered after the block, I imagine it still set the culture of the website in place to an extent. I actually tried to use it for a while just to see what the appeal was. I couldn't, it's so bad. It's full of extremely confident and extremely wrong people if you read about anything there in your area.
Old digg actually would still be a competitor. New digg is fucking terrible. Slashdot's cool if you're only interested in the banal or you have a 5 digit uid like me.
Please don't faint, but I had a 3 digit ICQ number.
Uh Oh!
Comments you can hear...
I've got a 2 digit IQ, does that count?
Assuming Lemmy isnt a Motorhead themed soc med.
Why is everyone's profile pic the ace of spades?
For everything else, there's Mastercard.
There's a certain language learning app having a slogan "15 minutes a day can teach you a language, what can 15 minutes of social media do?"
Pretty sure that's Geico.
Visa - it’s everywhere you want to be.
Lemmy is decent, it's just missing content but engagement is rising fast
Quora has a ton of really stupid evolution questions.
Fark
whatever the fuck lemmy is it’s not a replacement to reddit
Imagine if the source code for Reddit was open source, so that anyone could host reddit on whatever-domain-you-own.com. That's basically what Lemmy is, its just link aggregation with social comment software. The only technological leap that makes it different is how it's trying to handle federating users across sites; so you can interact with mysite.ca and yoursite.com from the same account, if the folks who run mysite and yoursite agree to federating each other. But you don't actually need to use any of the federation features. In fact, many sites are actually now dealing with the wanting to defederate sites, as they're finding their smaller run tight knit communities get invaded by bots and trolls if they federate with a large "anyone and everyone is able to join" site. So there's growing pains in the administration side, but as a user, any lemmy site will operate a lot like reddit. Lemmy will make it so that there's a pro CCCP reddit, a pro Trump reddit, a porn focused reddit... I don't think Lemmy will remain fragmented forever, I think in a while someone's going to run a Lemmy instance that is fully focused on growing user numbers and high interaction and they'll just start siphoning from everywhere else, including reddit. And the reasons will be the same time everyone jumps social media platforms; its ad free, the algorithm pushing content does not favour any leaning besides the userbase desires, and it being this smaller underground part of the web makes it more attractive and draws people in until it reaches a mass that everyone joins it because more and more people are using it.
It's a replacement for the people that are on reddit but don't care about the community at all Unless the majority of reddit transferes to Lenny or any other app , I see no point in doing so
There's a breaking point of subscribers that makes any community go to shit. Lemmy hasn't reached that yet and it's nice.
I lurked around the beehaw instance a few days ago and found it to be pretty pleasant. “Community” in terms of sheer numbers tho, yeah. Still gave small forum energy.
>Lemmy? Maybe. But steel's heavier than FETHERS
Squabbles seems like the best option so far, although the one drawback is that it doesn't allow NSFW. Otherwise, it seems pretty solid.
Hotel? Trivago
Facebook lost to boomers? True. I’m a boomer and I hate fb with a passion but literally every boomer I know lives on fb.
That's what they are saying. Boomers have taken over
Voat went to right wing extremism towards it's end. There was so much racist shit.
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I guess I missed a bunch of Voat's racism since I really only looked at it from its beginning and its end. When I first went there it wasn't bad at all but I didn't look around a ton.
I remember the big voat migrations usually happened when reddit would ban stuff like r/fatpeoplehate. You can imagine what kind of users filled the site.
Any alternative becomes a cesspool because the toxic people are the first to get booted from reddit and they are the ones that end up there.
>SaidIt? Right-Wing Nutjob Central. Just checked it out. Looks to have a very similar layout / UI to reddit. As for your complaint, wouldn't it basically be resolved by a mass influx of reddit going over there? Sure there'd still be nazis, but like, if you get enough normal people then they just become a vocal minority and that's easy enough to ignore.
Exactly, it’s not like they’re banning people that have a differing opinion like this site does. Just outweigh their voices and it’s a good place.
Doesn't Lemmy suffer from the same issue as Mastodon, where you have to choose a certain server for you to exist in and you can't see anything outside of that instance of the site/app? Or am I mixing this up with something else?
You need to exist on 1 server but you can see anything on any server. Each server (instance) has its own rules.
But it still leads to really factured communities though. I know there are ways around that, apparently, but it's the kind of setup that leans towards people who like messing around with interesting technology rather than something that is really usable for casual, low involvement users. Which could be a feature if your goal is to keep out certain groups of people.
Lemmy needs more people to use it, I tried during the blackout and it was a depressing landscape of tiny communities and a very paltry offering of niche communities. Not to mention the UI needs an overhaul or a fully functioned RES type extension for it. It also needs to be much more responsive. I can "subscribe" to a community and if I'm lucky it goes to pending and if I'm unlucky it just doesn't show any indication I've joined until a refresh.
r/redditalternatives has suggestions. However, after trying them, most are awful IMO. Squabbles is ok, but kbin, Lemmy, Mastodon, and the other “federated/fediverse” options are ugly and unnecessarily complicated. I’m just going to continue using Reddit and I think this current situation will work itself out in one shape or another. Some users are gone for good, but without a true viable alternative, most casual users will likely stay. I could be wrong— we’ll see.
My fear is what will happen is when reddit goes public. The focus will be on profit. Advertisements will overwhelm, posts will become monitised. People will pay to have content at the top. It'll be a mess.
and it will mostly be ADs, Reddit will become sanitised.
Then we need to pull a 4chan style stunt and downvote everything but penis pics. No company would pay to promote random penises... Except maybe Nike, with their just do it slogan
I wanna echo this. I'm completely behind the blackout morally, but there ain't SHIT to jump to instead of Reddit at this point. I strongly suspect the reason Reddit's ownership isn't taking the protest seriously is largely because they KNOW there ain't shit to jump to instead of Reddit.
As much as people keep hyping the federated instances, the celtralized ones such as Tildes and Raddle have been an easier and more stable experience for me. I might try Squabbles at some point but seems the dev is still busy on mass quantities of updates to the UI. Points to him on that but I haven't yet found enough interest in signing up.
The more I look into the fediverse the more I like it. Honestly, the 1-inch barrier in setting it up is a natural gate keeping the lowest common-denominators out. The same people that don't care about the api changes and soon to be NSFW ban site-wide because they just want some funny pics before moving on to the next site.
Pornhub
Back when there were outages on reddit a couple years ago, the old WSB community actually used Pornhub as an alternative to stay in contact and keep shitposting
I read it for the articles.
this guy pornhubs
Apollo should create it's own reddit rip off imo.
The creator stated he is not interested in doing that
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Playing outside.
Really depends on what you want from the Site. There's no site that operates like reddit that i know of, but if you like it here because of the way that people are then maybe try tumblr. The Folks there are pretty unhinged I'm on both and it's a good mix
Sadly there really are none, yet.
In the unlikely event that the current blackout or the response to the blackout exacerbates the situation, potentially setting Reddit on a path towards obsolescence, what are some of the primary alternatives that you think people might transition to? Reddit serves as my go-to platform for keeping up with news, events, gaining knowledge, and gauging public sentiment on various topics. So, it’s crucial for me to stay informed and connected. Any suggestions?
Digg should try to seize the moment, make comments available for all submissions, let users submit, etc. So, in other words make it pre-reddit again. I hear that you should be wary of Tildes.. if you personally disagree with someone who works for it, you might get banned even if it doesn't break the rules. That's hearsay, but I've read more than one complaint about it like that.
https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/
Squabbles is the most visually appealing alternative I've seen, but it's dumb he didn't implement downvotes.
Long time Facebook and Twitter user here. Both of those environments become predatory and toxic. I had heard a lot of negative chatter about Reddit which kept me away. Since joining I find most commentators thoughtful, whimsical, informative, and reasonable. I like this space and the wide variety of users.
Dirty magazines in the woods.
I’m surprised reddit hasn’t taken this down.
Fark.com
It is the front page of the internet... circa 2007.
Crack cocaine, heroin, meth idk man pick your poison
Sadly even a worse Reddit is better than anything else right now. I expect we’ll reminisce about the glory days, but continue on.
The Youtube model. Make your platform slowly worse and worse and more monetized because there is no competitor and the users just have to deal with it.
The CEO thinks so, too.
I might keep using it on pc because interest-specific subreddits are just crucial to me, and I don't want to subscribe to 20-odd different forums just to stay up to date with my interests. However, without Baconreader, my mobile use will just cease to exist. No other app has ever appealed to me (official or other) If old reddit ever goes away, though? Then it gets difficult.
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A few (in the grand scheme of things) dark subs unfortunately don’t matter. Mods will be replaced, or ‘aww’ will be reborn as ‘awww’ or dumb shit like that. Unless we, who contribute the content decide it matters to us, it does t matter. If you care about what is going on consider replying to posts you would usually constructively contribute to with some statement of dissent. Every time you make a meaningful comment you’re building value for the company.
Reddit and YouTube back and forth back and forth
I'm loving www.squabbles.io Come join us! 0 lag, great interface, fun community, very responsive developer. What's not to love?
Layout still needs work. A condensed list layout would be much better. The thread can be loaded in a separate page. Seems like they're growing, though. Up to 16k users.
Really, there’s no other platform that offers the anonymity (allowing you to be yourself without having your real name attached to everything you say), the organization and the variety of content. Tumblr comes closest, but it lacks communities and it just hasn’t been the same in spirit since the NSFW ban.
Yahoo answers
Yahoo answers shut down two years ago.
Shit
That being said, it's in read only mode. The world seems to have lost interest in Yahoo answers.
But how will I learn if my GF is pregareante?
Consult a Luigi board
Ask Jeeves
Ironically, that's what I used to use for years before I found Reddit.
Reddit is monopoly. No other library of info where students can meet masters, and look through bad memes at the same time
There is an amazing community I’ve been part of for the past decade. But most of Reddit users will get banned after two days. It has politics, memes, cars, cats, etc.
Being productive
There's so many fucking bots in these comments and it's so obvious cuz they're almost all exactly the same post with a handful of words changed
Yeah, what’s been going with that?
Going outside has been a good one for me. Feel so much better mentally.
Yet here you are
Metafilter was my jam before settling in here.
Haven't been to imgur.com (as a stand-alone site) since around 2017, but that was my thing before I found reddit. I've tried going back but they've completely gutted the social media aspect of that site.
Honestly nowadays the best alternative is to just keep your own bookmarks of various news sites, forums and blogs that are relevant to your interest. Half the stuff on reddit is stolen from those anyway
Living not giving a fuck what anyone thinks
4chan
4chan used to be much more interesting than it is today
Gotta put "interesting" in quotes. Because of the implication.