Welp what ship we jumping onto boys?
Posted by HazbinHotelier@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 147 comments
What’s everyone’s backup for when everyone becomes a Reddit refugee.
Posted by HazbinHotelier@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 147 comments
What’s everyone’s backup for when everyone becomes a Reddit refugee.
WaterMittGas@reddit
Back to smaller forums again hopefully like the old days!
ZeeMastermind@reddit
Think older... let's go back to webrings XD
Heavy_Law9880@reddit
Or a local BBS
achton@reddit
I'm thinking Fidonet
RUNxJEKYLL@reddit
I’m going to remake trade wars with tariffs. And FIDOnet < WWIVnet
ChessFan1962@reddit
As doorgames went, none better than Trade Wars.
9FeetUnderground71@reddit
That's how it started for me, with the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, which is now well.com. First email address too.
magnora7@reddit
www.saidit.net is a small forum full of ex-redditors
mallorn_hugger@reddit
Checked it out. Looks like a hateful conservative trash site.
thonglo_guava@reddit
You comment on r feminism, pics, FBI, and other hateful far left wing subs, lol. You don't need a refuge from Reddit. You are Reddit.
3xBork@reddit
The fact that you consider "hey women and men should have equal rights" a hateful, far-left stance shows exactly who you are lol.
thonglo_guava@reddit
No, this debate strategy is called Motte and Bailey and doesn't work. Sorry.
3xBork@reddit
Look at that, he's got Wikipedia access too!
redavni@reddit
Wikipedia has gone woke and is so overwhelmed by relativist editors trying to retcon their fantasies into history that nobody with a brain actually uses it anymore. It's a safe space for your kind, not us. Please don't project.
3xBork@reddit
Please keep outing yourself like this. It will be very useful when Nuremberg season 2 comes out.
redavni@reddit
I have been actively using one form of social media on the Internet since the Usenet days. Literally took two weeks for an email to get from one point to another through Fidonet in my day. The point being, I intuitively know when a propagandist is trying desperately to shield his audience from the poisonous nature of his ideology. Reddit would be dying under the sheer weight of your kinds lies along with Wikipedia even without our help. You can't save them. Save it for your blue sky echo chamber. Your dialectic is lies. Your alternate history is lies. Your experiments are evil. You should really stop freebasing the estrogen too. You succeeded in pissing off the wrong people. Your opinion is not valid. I know who the true enemies are, and your stupid language fetishes are not helpful anymore unless pissing Gen x is your goal. If that is the case, I salute you. Revenge is in the air and well before the narrative timeline.
Yours truely
Pap3rStreetSoapCo@reddit
BOT
Maleficent_Garlic-St@reddit
Lol whatever you cruel retard
Enfoting@reddit
Have you even checked the site? The absolute majority of threads are discussing politics from a trump/republican perspective.
deconstructed_legos@reddit
You can throw a rock in the air and it's going to land on a far right, conservative platform. It's unprecedented. I'm not sure why conservatives freak so hard about Reddit. It's almost like they don't want left-leaning platforms to exist.
Chuhaimaster@reddit
Because the world needs yet another MAGA megaphone blasting 24/7.
LivesDoNotMatter@reddit
There's not many people there right now, and you can actually talk about all the stuff that's forbidden on reddit and not have 3/4 of the stuff you say get shadowbanned because some autistic mod doesn't agree with you.... problem is, people focus too much on what's forbidden on reddit, and it becomes part of every conversation.
When reddit becomes more and more irrelevant, I'm sure the novelty of saying the n-word, and posting liberal-hating ragebait and will subside.
magnora7@reddit
There's literally no posts like that on the front page right now, I don't even know what you are talking about.
LivesDoNotMatter@reddit
There's quite a few that focus on the topics we're not allowed to discuss on reddit, like the, polar opposite of the pronoun/gender drama/jew-hating (lol gas the jews/holocaust never happened) cheap ragebait, although the n-word spam seems to come and go in waves. It seems like just a few people are obsessed with that stuff, and I ended up ignore-filtering them after a while as it was clear it was just "lol shitskin/sheboon" spam and there was no room for intelligent conversation.
As much as I am for free-speech, that behavior seems to be a flare up of not being able to have free-speech on other platforms, and needing to either test, or vent when you can't on most of the other main sites nowadays. The downside of it is it's chased away a lot of people I've mentioned the site to who are sick of reddit's draconian power-hungry leadership who are hell-bent on shaping politics their own weird social-lefty viewpoints.
I suppose there is no perfect answer, but if saidit, or any other site becomes a real threat to a large slice of reddit's cash-flow, I'm sure they will attack it with bots spamming nasty or downright illegal stuff to get the site nuked. (It's happened with others, and especially subreddits that reddit doesn't like and they want to find a reason to ban them).
Anyways, I see you are a top mod/admin on the site, and wish you good luck. My comment was in no way meant to be a jab to belittle you or the site, but to highlight some of it's problems preventing it from prospering. I see the occasional person pissed off at you on the site and trash talking/calling you out in emotionally fueled rants (claiming to be banned sometimes, but you'd really have to try hard to get banned there), but I assure you, I am not one of those. I think it would be cool if it became big like reddit but without all the manbaby mods and rampant censorship.
magnora7@reddit
So you want censorship of certain ideas that you don't like, and you also want me to remove the cloudflare filter that is preventing the site from being filled with botspam (which would also drive people away).
I'm glad I run the site and not you, because it'd be 10x more dead if we ran it the way you just suggested. The graveyard of our competitors shows this. People aren't going to join a reddit alternative that also bans ideas like reddit, then it's even more pointless!
I see where you are coming from, but in practice that's not how any of this works. Banning ideas destroys the idea for the site's existence. Removing the cloudflare filter is not an option because the site is always constantly under attack (because it is a place of free speech). So it is what it is. People want perfection where it is simply not possible, even in theory.
To create the walled garden you are asking for, I would need dozens of employees, being paid. Right now the site runs on donations and is worked by people in their spare time out of the goodness of their hearts.
Free speech isn't pretty, but at least it's available.
You're literally asking for censorship in your first few paragraphs.... I don't think you have a coherent ideology when it comes to forum administration.
LivesDoNotMatter@reddit
I never said that. WTF is it with you and others jumping to premature conclusions and putting words in my mouth when I'm simply creating discourse by being as objective as possible by stating the pluses/drawbacks of the current situation. I hate censorship, and would rather see the occasional n-word spam or anti-semetic rant instead of the censored politically-cleansed shithole reddit has turned in to. Too bad most people I refer don't see it that way and immediately clutch their pearls instead of learning to ignore dumbasses. I know you have a bot-spam problem, and this constant captcha verification thing is supposed to manage it somewhat. Is the cure worse than the disease? Are there other methods to explore? I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I don't blame you for assuming such because that's what 99% of reddit is now.
I know it's a tough situation, and I've tried to manage forums before, and I'm more than glad to give you or anybody else the reigns as I'm sure you CAN do better. I noped out of that shit when a place I made grew enough to show up on google, and people would join to just constantly spam CP, and cats/dogs getting burned alve/tortured NONSTOP, and no law enforcement or FBI or anything would give two shits about this. (No, I'm not exaggerating) They say they investigate and prosecute for those things, but they ignore and ghost every single lead you give. Last thing I want is to be held responsible for running a child abuse forum because of these people. I would love to have the resources to track down and lock every single one of these sick fucks up for life. It's utterly disgusting, and faith in humanity drops to zero. Nobody could pay me enough to have to wade through that.
Cpvrx@reddit
There’s a lot of niche forums on the Forum Discovery website. You can find gaming forums, general/off topic, entertainment, sports forum and pet communities on there.
TriRedditops@reddit
[H]
Juckli@reddit
I was thining about that, recently. Small image boards and ICQ. Those were the days.
WaterMittGas@reddit
Anywhere I've looked is like "last post 2 days ago". It's just sad there is no true alternative that is even close.
Juckli@reddit
I tried to get a MySpace account, recently. But the verification emails seem to not be send no more.
ikegershowitz@reddit
smaller forums? like...?
Cr4bc0re_F4n@reddit
Go on google, type "(thing I'm interested in) forum", it's that simple.
WaterMittGas@reddit
For any hobby or fandom you can imagine.
ikegershowitz@reddit
oh I thought there's specific sites!
WaterMittGas@reddit
Well neogaf for gaming for example.
Hecate100@reddit
IRC.
LivesDoNotMatter@reddit
Those worked very well when search engines didn't prioritize paid-placement, and AI spam, and bury the results you want.
So often now, you search "keyword", and after you scroll past a ton of stupid Q&A and results for the topic it thinks you're searching about, the you find a page, and ctrl-f "keyword", "no results found". Total useless garbage. I want google 1998 back.
MilkFew2273@reddit
Directories.
eccsoheccsseven@reddit
My site is plenty small. Maybe the smallest on the official list. https://goatmatrix.net
GUM-GUM-NUKE@reddit
Happy cake day!🎉
FanClubs_org@reddit
Here! Hear!
kamuran1998@reddit
There’s this one I’ve worked on a while back, kinda broken but if people use it I can put more work into it https://subspace.place/home?days=30&type=popular
threelonmusketeers@reddit
Just had a look:
kamuran1998@reddit
lol y’all actually used it, I’ve not added compact view but if I get around to it I’ll probably do that. And this is not a part of the fediverse, so you only have my word for it that it won’t be enshittified. And I’m the only poster on there 💀. But yeah the reason I stopped working on it last time was because no one used it, but since I’m hosting it for free I kept it up.
threelonmusketeers@reddit
Thanks for your candid response!
urberhansen@reddit
depvana.com ofc!
ItsMrChristmas@reddit
We could try Lemmy but that is named after a white supremacist Nazi fuck when declared himself not a racist and idiots believed it
Electronic-Phone1732@reddit
Its named after a rat
TriRedditops@reddit
[H]
Road_Overall@reddit
Guess I'll be using Discord more. Probably join Blue sky too
expblast105@reddit
I’m looking at tildes.net Still haven’t judged yet
threelonmusketeers@reddit
Tildes seems like a nice community, but I suspect it is due to its small size. I'm not convinced that it can scale the way Lemmy, Mbin, or Piefed can.
AccomplishedEmu4820@reddit
spacehey seems pretty cool
threelonmusketeers@reddit
It doesn't really seem like a Reddit replacement. Where are the discussion threads with nested replies?
Evil_Eukaryote@reddit
The triumphant return of vBulletin message boards will be swift and consequential.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
The one that has the best clients, aka Lemmy.
nicheComicsProject@reddit
If you go to Lemmy you may as well stay on Reddit. It's supposedly "decentralised" but you can be almost completely cancelled by being de-peered (or whatever the terminology is), so back when I tried it all the big instances were banning any instances that didn't block every instance they insisted on you banning. It's actually a lot worse than reddit.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
Reddit is worse, I am subscribed to defederated instances with more genuine conversation without bots, astroturf or political radicals.
NewNormalMan@reddit
What’s Lemmy and app? (For the uninitiated)
threelonmusketeers@reddit
Lemmy is a decentralized network of websites with 47k monthly active users
Feel free to ask if you have any questions
sensitiveskin82@reddit
For users in the US, what "instance" is recommended when you sign up for an account?
threelonmusketeers@reddit
Without knowing anything else about you or your interests, discuss.online is a decent starting point. They even have an old.discuss.online interface if you prefer the old reddit layout.
If you ever decide that you don't like the instance you picked, you can always make an alt an another instance.
Let me know of you have any questions, or if you'd like a more specific recommendation.
sensitiveskin82@reddit
I guess I'm not sure what "instance" means. Is that a particular platform?
thriveth@reddit
It's similar to an email provider. And like email, they al communicate with each other.
pipopipopipop@reddit
I think the "email provider" explanation doesn't make it clearer for people. I think it's easiest just to say make an account on any instance (link them to whatever) and then login using one of the apps (Boost seems the most popular) and they'll figure it out from there.
ANGLVD3TH@reddit
Each instance runs like Reddit Proper, with a bunch of communities that are equivalent to subreddits. The difference is there are many seperate Reddit Propers, and they all networked with each other. Sometimes, but not always, an instance will only have themed communities, like the TTRPG instance has a community for rpg memes, one for world building, different ones for different game systems, etc. Some are less focused and more like micro Reddits.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
Like server, think of it like forums but reddit like
UnflinchingSugartits@reddit
'Instance ' means a server. Lemmy is a bunch of connected serves
threelonmusketeers@reddit
Each Lemmy "instance" is a like a mini-Reddit website, which is part of a network of mini-Reddits which all run the same software and share posts and comments with each other. Together, all these mini-Reddits form the entire Lemmy platform.
aDuckk@reddit
Lemmy.world is one of the "main" servers and was a good place to start for finding communities and such when I first joined.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
Lemmy is a decentralized, open-source social media platform similar to Reddit. It operates allowing users to join and interact across independently hosted servers (instances) while maintaining a unified network.
ashenblood@reddit
https://join-lemmy.org/
Basically the new version of reddit except decentralized. Most of the major reddit apps converted over to Lemmy when reddit shut them down
https://join-lemmy.org/apps/
madthumbz@reddit
Like Linux: too many options (fake solutions), too much conspiracy theorist BS. -And you'll get weighed down in their vote manipulations because they have all day to sit on their computers or hop on their mom's upstairs.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
The open source nature of Linux is why is the most used OS in servers in the world. Reddit has the problem of vote manipulation, bad algo feed, farm bots and astroturf
madthumbz@reddit
I can see why you'd come to that conclusion but consider another perspective.
You're a Linux user back in the day, (a mediocre system administrator). You gobbled the unproven propaganda about 'more secure' and further want to secure your job by using the obscure OS that doesn't cost the company extra money (No Windows user is going to replace you). You and many others successfully convince your bosses.
'most used OS in servers' -That's over 90% for web servers but around 65% for non. I would bet that Microsoft bailed on trying to penetrate that market for aforementioned reason.
I agree with the problems of Reddit. Lemmy fixes none of them, rather is worse and adds to them.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
Lemmy fixes centralization, it has better clients, and no algo. Also no paid subs. Lemmy fixes some problems, maybe you are still fine in Reddit and nothing wrong with it. Many of us not.
immersive-matthew@reddit
Tried it a little over 2 years ago or something and it was a ghost town and full of memes and constant communist propaganda which is just as bad as capitalism propaganda. I want to get away from that so I left. I have signed up again and will give it another try as I really would rather support a decentralized platform. I wish more people made the jump as I am still not seeing anywhere close to parity with Reddit in terms of groups. Just does not have the volume of people but I am going to make an effort to stay there and be a part of the change.
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
Reddit is so big that people will not jump over to another alternative, as happened with Digg. The best you can do is diversify using forums, mastodon, Lemmy and niche subreddits (if not paid)
Electronic-Phone1732@reddit
Its gotten far better, just avoid the tankie instances (lemmy[.]ml, lemmygrad[.]ml and hexbear[.]net)
BlazeAlt@reddit
The situation has improved since then. 47k monthly active users is quite large. For comparison, Discuit has less than 200 weekly commenters.
SlySychoGamer@reddit
discords, and just not using the site
threelonmusketeers@reddit
Discord communities are usually poor replacements for Reddit, for the following reasons:
lemgandi@reddit
https://joinmastodon.org
threelonmusketeers@reddit
That's more of a twitter replacement. The fediverse replacements for Reddit are Lemmy, Mbin, and Piefed.
Ve-Vi@reddit
To this subreddit to complain before going back to other subreddits.
PsychologicalWind591@reddit
Oh Reddit is just where I go to kill time, if this place is gone it won't be missed lol =XD
Ogrimarcus@reddit
I mean I'm just gonna fuck off reddit and not look back. It's the worst social network I'm on anyway. I'll be on Bluesky and a few forums, plus various discords.
mighty3mperor@reddit
If you are on Reddit then the next logical step is the Threadiverse (Lemmy, mbin and PieFed).
My advice is to pick an instance based on:
That way you'll be up and running with a manageable and relevant "local" feed, so you have content from day 1 while you build up your subscriptions.
goldicecream@reddit
Is Fark still a thing?
KingLouisXCIX@reddit
Usenet.
crambeaux@reddit
I loved Usenet. How do you access it now?
mighty3mperor@reddit
Since Google backed out it is tricky. Try this:
https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light
KingLouisXCIX@reddit
It's been many years since I last accessed it. I think the last newsreader I used was XNews. I remember stumbling upon it decades ago while using Outlook Express. I used to think the whole top-posting versus bottom-posting debate was a hoot; I favored inline posting. I used to enjoy rec.music.beatles, especially Alan W. Pollack's posts. I used to also like the newsgroups for The Simpsons and The West Wing. It was also a way to file-share before Napster.
Do you still access it?
HazbinHotelier@reddit (OP)
My nibba
meanderingleaf@reddit
Finally, Digg can have it's glorious return to relevancy.
HazbinHotelier@reddit (OP)
Haha I was part of that migration. Imagine we all go back 😂
DrippyCheeseDog@reddit
Me too. Mr. Babyman sent me
Alpacacin0@reddit
Never understood why Discuit never took off. The community seems nice.
Spaikee_Hadgehog@reddit
Here's the thing. If it really took off, the community would no longer be nice
Formal_Temporary8135@reddit
SeaNational3797@reddit
Tumblr
franktronix@reddit
I’m still so pissed that they killed off the other mobile apps. The official one is dogshit and forces me to misclick into their stupid monetization shit constantly. I’ll be happy for another reason to try lemmy again.
No_Bluejay6086@reddit
Anyone curious about Discuit? Looks like Reddit early days to me.
threelonmusketeers@reddit
Link leads to a "this domain is for sale" page.
marjoriemerald@reddit
Smashr because its hosted from Europe (specifically Belgium which is an EU country) so the admins are definitely compelled to follow the EU laws on data privacy which are more ironclad than those of the US.
threelonmusketeers@reddit
What are the advantages of Smashr over a European Lemmy instance like sopuli.xyz?
CanOld2445@reddit
4chan. It's objectively a worse site but it will be so funny to see how upset they will be
GeneratedUsername019@reddit
digg?
Honkmaster@reddit
IRC
phatBleezy@reddit
Reccs?
HazbinHotelier@reddit (OP)
Never left lol
FamBamJam78@reddit
SAME. I don’t want the siloing. I thought Reddit was supposed to be an anonymous, open place for everyone to comment/post. But if I’m commenting on a Bravoleb exemplifying our political climate, especially as it relates to income inequality, I’m banned forever. It’s the very definition of censorship, & simply not how conversations naturally unfold.
RektFreak@reddit
Nature
BigJSunshine@reddit
Blue sky and crack.. I guess
ocelotsporn@reddit
Highly recommend Crack
matrozrabbi@reddit
I second crack. Changed my life.
I_Hate_Reddit_56@reddit
Well I was planning on just having better mental health .
Shot_Astronaut_9894@reddit
USS Grass. Sailing soon!
warboy@reddit
Probably go outside
MsDUmbridge@reddit
ok. what's the second step?
Thousandtree@reddit
Look for jackdaws. If you see one, follow it to the promised land of a new reddit.
FemboyDumpFucker@reddit
Take off pants
shiny_brine@reddit
Pants weren't on. Unsure how to proceed.
Tarvoz@reddit
Put on pants but go commando
Festering-Boyle@reddit
place ween on grass
Jupiter68128@reddit
Profit!
_MADHD_@reddit
Instructions unclear. Dick stuck in blender.
Electronic-Phone1732@reddit
Definitely the threadiverse (lemmy, mbin and piefed), they are interoperable, so posts on mbin servers show up on lemmy and piefed and vice versa.
FitikWasTaken@reddit
I enjoy using Mbin, you can interact with Lemmy users/communities from it as well
PuddingFeeling907@reddit
What are the advantages of Mbin over Lemmy?
FitikWasTaken@reddit
The UI is different, it may be your cup of tea, you can follow not only communities like on Lemmy, but you can also follow users as well, it even has a dedicated side for interacting with microblogging-style posts. It also has some unique features, like newly added bookmarking with lists. There are other things as well, but these ones are the first that came into my head.
AbsolutlelyRelative@reddit
Is something happening?
ashenblood@reddit
Reddit is planning to start paywalling certain subreddits
viiksisiippa@reddit
Plus it’s an American service.
AbsolutlelyRelative@reddit
Aren't those newer ones only, in October?
ashenblood@reddit
No idea, I haven't been using reddit for a couple years already, except to tell people about Lemmy.
When they shut down third party apps and pasted advertisements all over the place that was it for me.
And now they're going to charge people to see ads??? That's a no for me dawg
AbsolutlelyRelative@reddit
I looked into it, it's only for certain newer subreddits and it doesn't start till October.
That said it could spread, or kill older communities and I'd be out at that point.
masterflappie@reddit
ylilauta, it's like a finnish 4chan amd since I'm learning finnish, it's good practice
aligatorsNmaligators@reddit
Reddit wants you to go to reddit 2. (Lemmy)
PuddingFeeling907@reddit
Lemmy is like the ps5 while Reddit is the base ps4.
PuddingFeeling907@reddit
We're doing Lemmy, Piefed and Mbin!
GALACTON@reddit
You guys looking for a smaller echo chamber?
bungerman@reddit
Ya, /r/conservative got filled with bots, too crowded. Any ideas?
kdjfsk@reddit
Outside.
maxman1313@reddit
Lemmy
Echeyak@reddit
I use 9gag, that place is not perfect it has lots of bots, and a lot of posts are bot generated, but people have some level of freedom and can say/post controversial things that are not instantly flagged and removed like the Reddit mods do, and people just downvote you to oblivion if you say something stupid, 9gag doesn't have the content variety Reddit has it's a much smaller site but the comments quality and entertainment is a class ahead of Reddit's comments.