Reddit Alternatives You Should Use (TL;DR)

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MereRedditUser@reddit

From what I've read, reddit as a platform isn't so much an issue as (i) its lack of accountability in moderation and (ii) the weaponization of its comment karma system. On the plus side is the 1-level deep subreddit structure so that you can quickly access a particular interest and not rely on following specific individuals. Do the reddit alternatives address these pros and cons?

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Few_Ad_5257@reddit

Why is Reddit so damn strict?

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Few_Ad_5257@reddit

Here is what I want in a Reddit alternative:

More lenient, less communism
No archiving posts at all. Stays open indefinitely
Less strict

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captain_americano@reddit

I think that decision paralysis is partially from many users, myself included, using Reddit as their only/primary internet landing page these days. People are looking for that single source of community and information that will mirror Reddit, but these sites aren't quite there yet. Federated sites are also a bit confusing, but at this point maybe working with confusing & slightly inefficient sites is the price to pay to avoid imploding monoliths like Reddit and Twitter.

I'm going to be trying a few out at the same time. After so long, it's going to be a tough shift from using mostly one site to "reverting" back to checking multiple sites/forums/feeds/etc. As they expand, each site might offer a different type of community, which would also be a nice break from seeing the same recycled viewpoints and word-for-word comments.

This post was stream of conscious typing as I avoid work, sorry if parts of it don't make sense. People smarter than me might be able to expand on what I'm grasping at.

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Upswing5849@reddit

Since reddit has started really sucking over the last few years, I find myself returning to good old fashion forums more and more, and the experience is rewarding. There's something to be said for the autonomy and isolation that comes with a dedicated forum to a subject.

There's also Discord, which I don't really understand tbh. Maybe I should give that more of a fair shake, but seems to not really be what I'm looking for.

I also use RSS a lot more than I used to.

Reddit is terrible these days and getting worse all the time. Most/all of the social media sites have gone seriously downhill.

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PruglePin@reddit

Federated sites are also a bit confusing

This. I'm a pretty tech savvy person and lemmy is not user friendly at all. Oddly I think discord is the closest thing to a reddit replacement. The only thing is you can't search the internet and get results from a discord server. The threads and posts on discord are really nice in those larger communities.

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BlithelyOblique@reddit

Curious which sites you ended up trying and what you ended up liking!

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KindaNeutral@reddit

My main concern is ease of indexing. I frequently turn to reddit since Google is getting worse and worse. If the fediverse can't really be searched as a whole, that would be a huge missing piece for me.

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pyr0kid@reddit

agreed, every time i have a tech problem or are looking for tips i always add +reddit to the search.

its just easier to figure out if someone knows their shit on reddit as opposed to random websites google recommends that are clearly designed for people who dont know what "PC" actually means!

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_yerffoeg_@reddit

this. this is how I go about researching anything.

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UI and admins preference, the people running the instance can still control stuff like which other instances they federate(share content) with

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tjofleR@reddit

Exactly! It (mostly) doesn't matter which instance to join, so there's no point overthinking it. (I'd recommend sh.itjust.works because sign-up is automatic and they're not overloaded)

While there are some Lemmy instances dedicated to certain topics, or regional ones (like feddit.de or reddit.it) most Lemmy's are just general. Here's a few things where choice of instance can matter: * Some instances restrict Community creation to admins only. For example beehaw.org does that at the moment to avoid splintering the users in too many sparse Communities * Some instances have disabled downvoting * Instances are free to block other instances. This is good because mainstream instances blocked the extremist instances * Many instances disallow porn, nudity, NSFW on Communities hosted by them

The UI is the same on all the Lemmy instances I've seen. Kbin.social isn't a Lemmy but shows much of the same content because it's all federated. I prefer kbin.social web interface, but their mobile app is still under development.

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SupraMario@reddit

This is why I like tildes. It's like reddit back in the day. The federated sites have no real organization and are all over the place.

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MedicByNight@reddit

How does one find an invite to tildes? As someone who browses anonymously (friends don't know me) on Reddit, I don't really have any way to get an invite through conventional methods.

I guess we wait until they change their strategy?

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fireballs619@reddit

If you go to /r/tildes there is a thread to request invites. They send one to everyone who asks. The current one is locked right now because they just added a bunch of users and are giving them to adjust, but then next one will be posted tomorrow.

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TheShreester@reddit

Suggestion: Why don't they allow people to register for Read Only access for a probationary period (such as a fortnight or even a month) and then allow Write priviliges once it ends?
This allows anyone interested to create an account, but delays how soon they can post comments.

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sixthgear@reddit

tildes

I'm also looking for an invite if any Tilde users are happening to pass by this thread. It seems like the community I'm looking for!

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doomsdayglock1@reddit

Same here. Lemmy.just seems like it has to much separation.

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SupraMario@reddit

cocoagiant@reddit

Could I get an invite as well?

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dty840@reddit

How do you like tildes overall? I don't expect a reddit clone, but someplace to get interesting topics and conversation would be nice.

I would be interested in an invite if you have any to spare :)

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JhoodsLady@reddit

Looking for a Tildes invite if u have

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SupraMario@reddit

So far it's been great, it's designed around the topics and conversation vs shit posting right now.

Yea, he is saying Dec he wants to have an app for it

https://tildes.net/~tildes/15or/tildes_fundraiser_june_2023_encourage_an_app_developer_me_to_work_on_a_tildes_app_faster_by

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breakfast-lasagna@reddit

Tildes is probably my favorite so far. I tried kbin, but they are requiring email on sign up. Beehaw is requiring some questionnaire to sign up as well. Tildes requires an invite to be able to register. Hopefully they will open up more as more people leave reddit.

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SupraMario@reddit

Kbin looks way to much space between posts, it's not simplified enough. I think I'm going to start a post over on /r/redditalternatives for everyone to hand out invites from Tildes since users get like 5 invites to hand out, but I need to make sure this is ok with the dev.

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TheoryOfTheInternet@reddit

Only speaking for myself, none of the "Reddit Alternatives" are cutting it for me so far. That's not meant to undermine any of them though.

What I have been doing is using a variety of internet forums.

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Very_Bad_Janet@reddit

Which forums? I'm looking for suggestions

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TheoryOfTheInternet@reddit

Most of mine are very specific, such as forums for the car I own, or specific hobbies like scuba.

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esean_keni@reddit

Perhaps you could give Spyke a try. We've built it ourselves and its currently app only.

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Anomander@reddit

and its currently app only.

bettervanilla@reddit

Google-fu, forums, and RSS seem to be the way to go without a dominant Reddit alternative that a critical mass already occupies. Those things stick around through thick and thin.

In just a week, we have seen a massive breadth of supposedly Reddit-like competition in the space paired with a massive amount of flux and growing pains.

May take some time to see who the real winner(s) in this space will be. Even then, most people say they want a Reddit alternative, but what they mean is that they want an alternative built for how they use Reddit.

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TheoryOfTheInternet@reddit

Once my own alternative is up and running, stable, and with the basics running smoothly, adding RSS support (both incoming and outgoing) is something I'm strongly considering doing.

Google (search) has massive problems, but that's another topic.

In just a week, we have seen a massive breadth of supposedly Reddit-like competition in the space paired with a massive amount of flux and growing pains.

You either clone software, or you make software. Cloning is a great way to quickly get something up and running, but it's just a clone, lacking in uniqueness. Making software is incredibly complex, time-consuming, and risky. I'm one of those "idiots" in the later category, hah.

Growing pains are absolutely normal. One can try to "premaurely optimize" everything, but to an extent it's sometimes better to optimize as problems happen. The problems though with a lot (but not all) of the alternatives so far is they don't appear to understand scaling-issues at all.

May take some time to see who the real winner(s) in this space will be.

Yea, we can't force in such a short timespan the organic growth reddit experienced over the course of years. My subs on reddit are not ultra niche....but expecting to find a single landing page that has Elden Ring discussion as well as politics, DIY tips, etc is asking for a lot.

The bottom line is reddit is being a bunch of jerks!

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FanClubs_org@reddit

I have given this a lot of thought over the years, but ultimately decided to scale back and take a broad, but contained approach with our forums and Fan Clubs.

For the beta period, our forums will include sports and teams, video games, movies, TV, and comics. Everything else would be in off topic until it's time to grow.

I was able to get reddit to do this through RES. Every time a major political issue comes up, I just add it to a keyword list of posts which are invisible to me.

ZappyZane@reddit

My problem with current RSS aggregators are lack of offline mode.

Things like Feedly, Flipbook, Inoreader etc are either assuming always online connection, logins, privacy and other niggles.

Sometimes i'm somewhere with poor data connections, and just prefer to download a day/weeks worth of news, and just open the app and read.

Currently using Flym, but it's not an aggregator which suggests stuff, you need to know what RSS links to give it. Also a lot of places don't seem to supply good RSS anymore, you get very basic info, assuming you'll click thru to their website.

Very much hoping for new suggestions though.

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MeteorPhoenix@reddit

In terms of privacy, I highly recommend Feeder. It's one of the few suggested by privacyguides, so it's as respectful of your privacy as you get. But it's similar to Flynn in that you need to give it links.

Sites are really poor at giving you the rss links these days, but the vast majority of them will have them anyway. You might have to tinker with the url, but I noticed that even just giving Feeder the main url will return the valid rss link without much finagling.

Anyway, for me, it's not a replacement for Reddit. I don't think anything can. But a combination of rss, old forums and googling will probably be enough on my end.

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Yay295@reddit

Sites are really poor at giving you the rss links these days, but the vast majority of them will have them anyway.

For example, there are actually RSS feeds for YouTube playlists. You can't subscribe to a playlist, but you can follow its RSS feed. They look like https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=PL6NdkXsPL07IOu1AZ2Y2lGNYfjDStyT6O

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1080Pizza@reddit

I use Feedly, and I'm lucky to have an old account where the limit on the free version isn't 100 feeds.

I still use bookmarks but I also have been using toby to put all the websites I actually care about in my new tab. I used to use awesome new tab page and then awesome hq but toby replaced awesome hq after the dude abandoned it.

These resources should be a good starting point for you:

Using Similarweb to find competitor sites to good websites you know or find
Cloudhiker: which seems to be the rebrand of Stumbled.to, which seemed to be the reboot of StumbleUpon
The Old Web: a directory of directories, blogrolls, webrings, search engines, and other weird websites and pages

I feel like the family has been just exploded and all flying off to different places in the cosmos and I fear I won't find them again and I'll be left alone feeling strange and off on the internet

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sedition@reddit

People used to be confused by the concept of a blog on the internet. They'll adapt.

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LifeHasLeft@reddit

Yeah, I remember when I started using Reddit, it was already coined as “the front page of the internet”. It really was designed well but it grew organically too.

I also agree that the fediverse can be confusing. And it’s worse when you read things, like this very post, that say “stay away from xyz because they’re Nazi psychopaths”. It’s a little too common to find communities of authoritarian nutjobs in the fediverse because of the inherent freedom to share whatever you want without being censored or banned.

Which brings me to one key feature of Reddit that is going to be hard to replicate elsewhere: the booming community of mods who actually care about their communities. They are truly the real reason Reddit became what it did.

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Violet_Nite@reddit

stupid idea: go back to 4chan and add /reddit

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FlexicanAmerican@reddit

I've been going through the list and noting which ones are the most seamless transition here. I've basically narrowed it down to 4 or so and I'll try to spend more time with them over the next few days to make some final commentary.

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niomosy@reddit

My hypothesis is that there won't really be one for a while. Online forums are cyclical in terms of expansion and consolidation. BBS expansion led to FidoNet and Usenet consolidation. Web forums caused expansion with link aggregator sites moving to consolidation with Reddit essentially becoming Usenet 2.0.

It seems we're due for a new round of expansion. A diaspora of users. Discord seems a target for many, particularly given they now have forum channels so you can have your forum style posts in addition to IRC and voice chat in one spot.

We'll probably see Usenet 3.0 but just as Reddit didn't exist when Usenet died, I suspect the new Usenet doesn't yet exist either.

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Jumpy_Floor7160@reddit

Seriously, Lemmy sucks

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Gullible-Willow-4434@reddit

In my experience, lemm.ee is more censored than lemmy.world, I've noticed certain words from .ee are completely unable to be searched.

(hopefully I can comment)

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Old_Mortgage_8889@reddit

Which one won't give me Hell for asking a question after just 12 months of the post being up? I want something less disrespectful like all around, the complete opposite of Dreddit in other words

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Striking-Shirt-2790@reddit

Has anyone checked out the A.nti.social social platform? It’s a mixture between Lemmy & Twitter

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Resident_Pirate_9887@reddit

L

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reaper527@reddit

i wish there was something that visually looked more like old reddit.

i want thumbnails, but i don't want them to be massive. i want expandos that collapse the text and let me click a button to view it inline.

lots of them go for that new reddit "make every submission gigantic on the home page so you only get a small handful". at my resolution, i can see 13 submissions when i look at the home page of this sub. in /r/InTheRing (a sub with thumbnails), i can see 9. on kbin, i can see 4.

also, i'm a little skeptic on the federated design of kbin and can definitely see it causing problems. for example, when i go to their technology section, there's a banner at the top that says:

The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

that's NOT what i want to see when i'm looking for replacement options. it sucks the ruqqus closed, because that looked like it had genuine potential to be a serious reddit competitor if people signed up / used it.

tildes is never going to be a viable replacement if it's text only. text isn't just memes, there are topics where videos are relevant. also, you're never going to see something like /r/Animewallpaper on tildes.

squabbles is too twitter and not enough reddit. looks more random discussion and less submission based.

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Blisterexe@reddit

https://old.lemmy.zip

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scstraus@reddit

Lemmy has themes. I found one I liked similar to old.reddit, hopefully you will too.

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busymom0@reddit

Mind commenting on the UI of my decentralized site’s design? I will have an extremely early beta next week most likely:

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/144s8rh/_/jnijgz5

maybe this is what I have been busy with ;)

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anadem@reddit

ah, a cyber-mom, got it ;-)

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LoyalaTheAargh@reddit

At a glance, I think that looks really good and clean.

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busymom0@reddit

Thanks! Just got the profile update page working:

https://i.imgur.com/ZIs0vV6.png

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IntotheHorror@reddit

How many are you letting in on the early beta?

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busymom0@reddit

As many! The goal isn't to prevent people from joining. The goal is to make sure spam bots aren't the ones joining.

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GoToLowes@reddit

It's clean and beautiful!

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reaper527@reddit

Mind commenting on the UI of my decentralized site’s design? I will have an extremely early beta next week most likely:

the UI looks PERFECT (well, aside from being a nightmode design, but i'm assuming that's something you're going to let people toggle between that and a normal white background, because no single color scheme will please everyone).

my only concern is that the description makes it sound like it's app only and not something that can be accessed via a webbrowser. that's going to be a dealbreaker.

other than that, the only other real standout thing is the lack of expandos. one of the best features of old reddit (with res)'s design is that when a tweet/picture/youtube video/etc. is posted, it shows like how it does in your screenshot, but it has a little icon someone can click to get an inline version (at a reasonable size for such a thing) without having to actually leave the page.

over all though, it looks great.

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busymom0@reddit

i'm assuming that's something you're going to let people toggle between that and a normal white background

Yep. In my hacker news app for example, I let users change the color of background, tint color etc. Some might like white background, some like dark blue background, some like dark grey background, some like jet black background. So all that will be customizable eventually.

What do you mean by "description makes it sound"? Initially it will be a website only and once the core features in the website are built, then I will build the apps too.

Yes, I will add the "expand" button for previewing the content. So embedded content can be previewed by clicking the preview button.

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magical_oatmeal@reddit

i wish there was something that visually looked more like old reddit.

https://new.tipestry.com/

Tipestry (my site) is primarily a web annotation system but it also serves as a link aggregator like reddit and the above link looks similar to old.reddit.

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reaper527@reddit

i wish there was something that visually looked more like old reddit.

https://new.tipestry.com/

Tipestry (my site) is primarily a web annotation system but it also serves as a link aggregator like reddit and the above link looks similar to old.reddit.

this actually looks perfect. definitely checking it out.

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popcar2@reddit (OP)

There's actually a "compact mode" on Kbin in the options you can turn on. It makes the website a lot more usable. Again, all of these websites are very early in their lifetime, it's likely more options will be provided in the future.

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Zacny_Los@reddit

Then you may like it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

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reaper527@reddit

Then you may like it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

there's definiely a middleground between those old obsolete forum designs and the new "everything is massive" design, and old reddit finds that middleground perfect.

After all, Reddit's NSFW community days are counted. No way it's surviving the IPO, can't have the shareholder being scared off.

It depends. I think Reddit is making a huge push to hide it as much as possible, but still keeping it around because it has big traffic numbers. So some 12 year old or 45 year old pure mom isn't going to ever happen upon it, but for everyone already in the system or knows Reddit has it can find it.

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Lightprod@reddit

Their heavy push to hide it is a way to kill it faster.

They could have forced login to see an NSFW post but they decided to remove it entirely from the 3rd party API.

For me, that's not a sign of them willing to keep it. Add the moderators tools / bots getting destroyed with the change (I don't trust spez words at all), there's clearly an agenda to kill porn on reddit, concequences be damned.

Tumblr and Imgur did it. Onlyfans tried. Reddit is next.

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Hasaan5@reddit

They already hide it as much as possible, eventually the only thing they'll have left to do is kill it.

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mlpedant@reddit

days are ~~counted~~ numbered

Lemmy will never ever catch on. Much like Mastadon the second you split links and URLs the whole concept dies.

scstraus@reddit

Seems techy enough that will keep the casuals away.

a connected web where anyone can host a server and communicate with other servers.

Is the web world-wide? Cos this sounds like something I heard about in the 90s

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b1__@reddit

Lemmy is built on the ActivityPub protocol, which is now a W3C approved open-standard for social networking platforms. Kbin also uses ActivityPub therefore Kbin instances (Kbin.social, fedia.io) can talk to Lemmy instances (Lemmy.world, Beehaw, Sh.itjust.works). Kbin is written in PHP, and Lemmy is written in the Rust programming language.

The world wide web, in comparison, is built on the http and more recent encrypted https protocol I believe (not an expert).

They are just universal standards that allow the users of each unique and separate piece of software to talk to each other.

Then there's Nostr, a broadcast protocol. Nostr is pub/sub, distributed, decentralized (not an expert - this is copy-paste). Nostr is about encypting everything. It's not P2P. Not sure if Nostr instances will be able to talk to Lemmy or Kbin instances (the Fediverse).

Then there's standalone and separate encrypted P2P social network platforms like Plebbit and raddi.net, Aether, Retroshare (again, not an expert).

Then there's the other standalone options: Squabbles (same setup as Reddit), Tildes.

So how do I know which one I should join???

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gcruzatto@reddit

Does the upvote count reflect the total of all connected instances, or is it just showing local upvotes?

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Rokketeer@reddit

That’s a good question, I’m not sure. My guess is that it’s only counting local stats.

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nerdening@reddit

think of it as a connected web where anyone can host a server and communicate with other servers.

How does this work in conjunction with moderation? If I create a server and decide to make my server about, let's say, how to pirate the shit out of everything - how can Lemmy, at large, police and remove my server from Lemmy, at large?

Or, what's to stop someone from setting up a sex trafficking ring on Lemmy? Is there a mechanism to keep bad actors from jeopardizing the project at large?

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phire8@reddit

Lemmy, at large, has no control over all Lemmy instances. If you setup a Lemmy server and decide to host communities focused on pirated shit the only person able to stop it is you. Other instances/servers of Lemmy can either recognize you or ignore you, but they can’t moderate you.

Imagine instead of all subreddits being on the same server owned by Reddit, each subreddit is now hosted on their own server, with their own rules and their own moderation. Each of these “subreddit” instances can see one another and interact with one another, but there’s no “overarching ruler” like with Reddit Admins. If one instance or “subreddit” decides to go completely rogue, other instances or “subreddits” can ignore them or even block them from appearing on their instance… but they can’t totally wipe out the rogue instance from existing, because they have no power or authority to do so, it’s a totally separate server that just happens to be running the same Lemmy software as everyone else.

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Zacny_Los@reddit

You don't need to understand the technical details to appreciate the plethora of content that such a solution provides the average user.

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qwqwqw@reddit

I kinda do. I'm forever in that sweet spot of being just competent enough with these things to know that I know sweet jack all.

So if I don't understand the technical details... Then I have questions like where's my data going? Is the community spread across different servers with different owners? Does that mean a malicious actor could edit my comment (oh hey /u/Spez) if I posted in a server they controlled?

There's also the question of security. How are the different protocols protected? I'm not gonna bullshit you and say I can answer what makes https secure apart from Chrome telling me it's secure ;) but who creates the protocols, how robust are they, etc.

As you can tell. I know nothing. But I know enough to kinda know what words mean, and to kinda know what I should try to find out...

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aMAYESingNATHAN@reddit

There's also the question of security. How are the different protocols protected? I'm not gonna bullshit you and say I can answer what makes https secure apart from Chrome telling me it's secure ;) but who creates the protocols, how robust are they, etc.

The main protocol used is ActivityPub which is open source, which doesn't guarantee that it is secure but it does make it much more likely. Open code means any vulnerabilities get picked up pretty quickly.

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Jacen47@reddit

your data is going to an instance server that anyone in a federated instance that is/does not block your instance can see depending upon your post privacy. users from federated instances can follow users on other instances to see their follower only posts.

a malicious acting server owner could edit any content on servers they control, but this is not a problem most long lasting instances have.

I am new to the fediverse too but my rough idea without getting technical (yes I know its not perfect):

If reddit was a company owned hotel then the subreddits are the rented apartments. The fediverse is a village and places like kbin, mastodon and lemmy are their own independtly owned and maintained properties where the villagers regularly visit each other.

Lemmy instances are run by power trip kids banning everything and everyone they disagree with, free speech and diversity is not tolerated (similar like on Reddit in most of the subs)

New accounts can't invite I think

Mr_Mandrill@reddit

Yeah, the fediverse seems cool enough if user friendliness wasn't a factor. I think a version of that with a single point of entry (a centralized authorization) would be a great compromise. You'd still depend on a single organization, but could still keep the decentralized communities. Hardcore decentralization like this I feel is just too much for most people. Like, yeah, Esperanto is great, you just have to learn it tho.

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scstraus@reddit

It took me all of about an hour or two to get as comfortable using it as I am with reddit. Admittedly a bit of a steep learning curve for that hour or two, but quite short lived. Now I have it customized better than I had reddit.

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JohnnyJayJay@reddit

seems so cryptoshitcoin/web3.0 marketing buzzword type

Where do you get this from? I'm serious, the Fediverse has never made this impression on me. If anything, it's been the opposite. Is it just the use of the word "decentralisation"? Or do you have anything more concrete?

I don't really understand it

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FlexicanAmerican@reddit

I don't know why you want to die on this hill. OP didn't have to include it. And he's not making a comprehensive list. I already shared why it's might have been omitted. I can only think of two reasons: (1) you have a vested interest in the site, (2) you have a vested interest in the "ideals" promoted on the site. In either case, thanks for making it obvious.
I question the veracity of your claim that it's the largest.
"Free speech" people will find the "free speech" they're looking for without me or anyone else promoting it. Hell, they can all go on Twitter nowadays if they want.

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EAT_DA_POOPOO@reddit

I was under the impression we were having a conversation. Hardly "a hill to die on". I didn't say OP had to include it, only that it would probably make sense.
See the pinned post https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/yttdlc/list_of_active_reddit_alternatives_v8/ (gab isn't really like Reddit, steemit doesn't seem to be really english language, and ovarit is not a general-focus site)
Cool. You know my original post was not specifically directed at you, right?

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FlexicanAmerican@reddit

OP also wrote

I've seen a lot of back and forth on this sub and thought to make a post of all the good alternatives I've tried and which ones I would recommend.

Not sure why OP added that at the end since it seems to go completely against the point of his post, but point taken.

I was under the impression we were having a conversation, hardly "a hill to die on".

Fair enough.

Scored is the same thing as communities.win if that wasn't clear.

Was not clear to me. I'd never heard of scored prior to today.

Cool. You know my original post was not specifically directed at you, right? As I said, I was responding to OP's request.

Yeah, but your replies weren't to OP, they were to me. And as was noted, OP said it was the ones he used/recommended.

No need to click on a link to view OP post or comments.

SpaceNoodled@reddit

Voat was immediately overrun by Nazis, and shut down not long afterwards.

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Chick__Mangione@reddit

Which makes the Lemmy devs concerning tbh.

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popcar2@reddit (OP)

There's no official way to browse and create Mastodon posts on Lemmy, I think you'd have to find the link and then search for it on Lemmy to be able to follow someone from Mastodon.

firebreathingbunny@reddit

Any claim presuming to have a factual basis is open to challenge. I challenged yours, and you failed to respond in a way that remains consistent with your excuse for an ideology.

Neidron@reddit

Isn't that just a 3rd party reddit app? The pilicy change will kill it too. That's how this whole mess started.

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brezhnervous@reddit

No, it was actually mentioned as one which wasn't being affected, maybe because it is open source and makes no money

Also when you install and login, this popup appears

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Neidron@reddit

Okay, but either way it's still just a Reddit viewer. This sub is people looking to leave.

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brezhnervous@reddit

Ahh, of course - understood. Apologies I probably posted it in the wrong place, sorry.

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bettervanilla@reddit

/r/lostredditors

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popemichael@reddit

Fark.com is really great too. It's like a moderated link agitator.

busymom0@reddit

Mine isn't built yet but I am hoping to have an extremely early beta next week. I am the developer of HACK, hacker news app for iOS, android and MacOS, one of the top hacker news apps on the app stores. I have been working on a decentralized link + text sharing site called AvocadoReader for last few weeks. I describe it as a "Decentralized public community of communities for sharing links, text and media."

Here's what I have so far. Got the post submissions and community creations working.

https://imgur.com/a/mim2X9H

I shared some implementation details here if people want to read more:

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13x0hzo/been_working_on_this_decentralized_reddit

Mind commenting on my UI?

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Dankassweedm8@reddit

Please continue posting about this. Once Apollo goes down I will delete my Reddit account, and this is the most promising alternative I’ve seen.

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busymom0@reddit

Thanks! I got editing profile metadata working:

https://i.imgur.com/ZIs0vV6.png

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StickerBrush@reddit

avo DOT reader or anything similar would be simpler.

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busymom0@reddit

funkinaround@reddit

getaether.net

It's peer-to-peer, and it has no servers. It's privacy sensitive because of that, source IP of any specific public post cannot (easily) be determined. This also means it is just one big "place" and not several places like a federated network.
Actions of moderators are visible to users. No content can just 'disappear', if something gets deleted, you'll know who did it, why they did it, and if you want, how to get it back.
Communities can elect and impeach their own mods by voting. If a mod behaves inappropriately, users can disable that mod locally as well.

At first glance, Squabbles.io lacks something Reddit has that I do prefer to have: a downvote button function. Instead it has the Facebook thing of liking posts and comments.

After twelve years, with many highs and lows, I can't believe I'm exploring alternatives to Reddit. But here we all are. This feels like terminal rock bottom and I'm heartbroken. Goddamn it.

Vladimir_Chrootin@reddit

I fail to see why this is a problem; you either want to post something on the internet for anybody to see, or you don't.

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AimeePlaysMSM@reddit

The exact opposite is being suggested in various "I'm leaving reddit!" threads; with people recommending various tools to edit their message history (which supposedly means the original post/comment is actually gone from reddit's servers as well) before deleting it.

When someone asked whether that doesn't just contribute to the knowledge rot of the internet where googling something ends up in discussions where information has since been removed, a reply comment essentially boiled down to "reddit not making money off of my content trumps that concern so idgaf".

It's interesting seeing these two schools of thought clash when looking for alternatives.

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cogthecat@reddit

With you on this being an interesting ideological conflict, though I certainly find myself falling firmly on the data preservationist side. It's really problematic for me both personally (hobbyist often seeking niche information or older content) and professionally (IT technician) for comment chains to go missing or for links to break.

Just a couple of weeks ago I was doing some digital archaeology on my own forum history and found that a huge amount of it is just gone, even through the Wayback Machine. As a result, I genuinely have no idea how to reconnect with the friends I remember but lost or forgot contact info for, and everything we wrote is now permanently lost to the ether. To see redditors deliberately invoke that is... distressing.

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I-Am-Uncreative@reddit

Yeah, one the one hand, I'm glad that some of the dumbest things I've ever posted on the Internet are lost to time, but on the other hand... they're gone forever.

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WhyIsThisGoing621@reddit

So does Reddit yet everyone is here. What is the difference?

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tehyosh@reddit

i assume it's because reddit's been around for over 10 years, initially was niche, then it became entreched and mainstream before their privacy issues became well known

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WhodaFRU@reddit

But even when their bad privacy policy was uncovered/scrutinized users like you and me still stayed. And yet wpeoppe are complainkng about fediverse privacy issues? Doesn't seem logical, does it?

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esean_keni@reddit

Thanks for that

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SpaceNoodled@reddit

Soy KE?

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esean_keni@reddit

Didn't get ya bud

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SpaceNoodled@reddit

Our app is called Soyke.

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Felatio-DelToro@reddit

I wish the alternatives would be a bit less mobile focused.

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Stiltzkinn@reddit

Same as Reddit, I know Tildes do take privacy seriously and is not advertising focused, but you need to trust Tildes developer as we trusted Reddit back in the day.

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reaper527@reddit

Are there any that respect privacy?

do the people screaming privacy have any legitimate complaints about the solutions being proposed that aren't "OMG, i can't delete things!!!!!"?

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FlyingQuokka@reddit

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to create an account on Kbin. Am I stupid?

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bettervanilla@reddit

Looks like registration is temporarily disabled in kbin.social to prevent further overloading of the instance. Users have been receiving a lot of 500 and other error codes recently, me included.

My reasoning is that other Polish instances have a registration link in the login page. It's probably best to wait until kbin.social solves its problems.

Maybe you can ask for further details at /r/KbinMigration or in this thread?

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sneakpeekbot@reddit

Here's a sneak peek of /r/KbinMigration using the top posts of all time!

instances can block each other.

If you are on instance A that has rules against Nazis (or some other thing), and instance B has Nazis, instance A can block (unfederate) instance B.

Jimmni@reddit

My trust in Tildes is shaken if it's still in alpha after all these years. On another note, thanks for reminding me Tildes exists.

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bettervanilla@reddit

This is probably far-fetched, but maybe that's the goal?

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phasetwo__@reddit

Thanks for the shout out! (https://sqwok.im). What you describe is one of the challenges I've found with making a site that's based on public chat vs comments. When there are a bunch of people online and you have people to talk to, it can be delightful, but if you show up to a thread and it's empty, you're likely to bounce.

In the past I was doing daily "hangout threads" that acted as the sort of fallback for people to hang in, and we started doing some planned events like a movie night where we set the time in advance and people showed up. Thinking to restart that soon.

Also open to suggestions or ideas in terms of more long-lived posts/chats that make it more usable, or any other feedback on improving the site.

Cheers

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Nachohead1996@reddit

Are there (toggle-able) sound notifications upon someone saying something in the chat? I'd honestly be okay with keeping 1-2 chats open in the background and join in when others are there.

That would also allow people to send a quick "anyone live?" message, and otherwise tune out or similarly keep it in the background until further notice.

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phasetwo__@reddit

Great question, currently there are no sounds but it's something I've thought about in the past. Unsure how much effort it'd be to implement but I do think we should add it.

Will look into it and get back to you!

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KerooSeta@reddit

Thank you for this. I've been using Lemmy for a few days and enjoying it, but it's good to see a break down of some of the alternatives.

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TotesMessenger@reddit

I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:

[/r/switzerland] Since reddit seems to be going down soon, here are a list of alternatives. I dunno if the creators and mods of r\/Switzerland have already created a Swiss community over there but I guess it'll be time soon

^(If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads.) ^(Info ^/ ^Contact)

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Devilz_Avacado@reddit

Definitely checking those out. Beehaw isn't loading though. Is it down?

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DandalfTheWhite@reddit

I have an account set up on Beehaw the other day. But I don’t understand how you “federate” with other sites/options/federations/whatever. Like how do you connect one to the other? So I need to make an account on one? And there are some mastodons I’d like to follow but again I don’t even know the terminology and the guides I find are not really for lay people. I don’t even know how to ask this question right probably so I’m sorry about that. Thanks in advance.

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awdrifter@reddit

Gab, Communities d00t win.

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submissivehealer@reddit

Tildes looks really interesting. I'm bummed to hear that it's invite-only, but I'll definitely keep my eye on it.

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FlexicanAmerican@reddit

It's not really invite-only. The blog says to email the dev for an invite.

Send me an email at invites@tildes.net if you're interested in being included in one of the early groups.

Vladimir1174@reddit

It's a strange time to be looking at other forums again. I do miss the feel of community that existed on hyperfocussed forums in the past so maybe this will end up working out for the better.

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IniNew@reddit

kbin looks really nice. Sad that server went down before I could click into any links lol

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Hokulewa@reddit

It was just momentary... it's back up now.

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IniNew@reddit

It was. Joined and browsing. Thanks!

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firebreathingbunny@reddit

Here are my picks. I chose only three of the best candidates to make things easier for the reader.

I am offended that nobody mentions my own project. :P

Any community that wants to move away from Reddit, I will offer support to create their own brutalinks instance.

Brutalinks is a federated link aggregator similar to (old) reddit and HackerNews. The code is free at https://github.com/mariusor/brutalinks but it's been neglected for a while, and some features might be lacking.

An example instance is at https://brutalinks.tech

Lemmy

Other ones worth mentioning

Closing thoughts