What's the best alternative to Reddit? I'm getting tired of the bots and harassment army that comes in when you post something that goes against their agenda.
Posted by hereswhatworks@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 37 comments
It seems like everything that's posted on Reddit is being censored. If you post something that goes against their agenda, they immediately attack your post. This is usually done with an army of bots and harassers who come in to derail what you're saying.
Crafty_Ad_5188@reddit
Try Anonum. Anonymous discussion platform, no accounts, no tracking, no karma system. Just conversations.
No bots farming upvotes, no post history to stalk, no algorithms pushing content. You post, people reply, that's it.
OilInternational2566@reddit
Dude.
You are so correct.
If what you post goes against the narrative of the thread - even if the post is FACTUAL! - the vote brigading by the state-actors and bots will absolutely bury the factual post.
Seen it happen 1000 times.
deport_racists_next@reddit
💯
Got banned by a mod because they demanded i prove something i experienced 30 years ago. Apparently nothing happened if there is no link to it. Since i couldn't 'prove' it they banned me for spreading 'misinformation'
As an IT professional, I found that particularly offensive, but reddit gotta reddit.
Anyone who wants an eye opening experience should start a sub just to look at the moderator tools.
It's not even a matter of a power trip, there are a shitload of auto ban tools the mods can set up poorly... and they do... just a freaking joke...
curlofheadcurls@reddit
I have not much to say, but I love the username tho
Fluffy_Fun_9814@reddit
💯 Love the uid too 🙏
Fluffy_Fun_9814@reddit
The mods can be so weird on certain subs. There was a guy that got arrested in CA for breaking an entry in his neighbors house. He had an anime shirt, and bathrobe on and was acting like an authority figure in flip-flops.
In the comments I read 'Reddit lost a mod' - I hadn't laughed that hard in a while.
hereswhatworks@reddit (OP)
A few weeks ago, I had a post with 12 upvotes. When the bots and harassers came in, it got voted down to zero in a matter of minutes. That's not natural.
deport_racists_next@reddit
My friend, who cares?
Seriously, just accept it or move on.
RedditAlternatives-ModTeam@reddit
Comments must be civil. What does this mean? No racism, homophobia, blasphemy, arguments, drama, trolls, insults, slurs, automated rage bots, political attacks, profile fishing, etc.
Use your best judgement. If something feels rude, it probably is rude.
hereswhatworks@reddit (OP)
Accept what?
hereswhatworks@reddit (OP)
Look at my 'Posts' history. Do you see this post? I think some of my posts are being shadow censored.
The idea that Romans 'didn't believe in heaven' isn't true at all. Getting into heaven was at the center of their religious beliefs. : r/romanempire
bripod@reddit
It looks like you have plenty of other up votes on other threads or topics. To me that seems pretty niche even for a bot. Reddit is a just another dumb website, who tf cares. Maybe go hike a mountain, ride a bike, go to a bar and talk to a human, change your oil and brakes, and quit wasting time trying to get approval from robots or people who don't know or care.
hereswhatworks@reddit (OP)
I posted the same thing yesterday on another sub about ancient Rome and that post got viciously attacked and downvoted to oblivion. It started getting upvoted until the army of bots and harassers came in. One of the harassers even accused me of being a conspiracy theorist and told me I must be hearing voices. It literally made zero sense. I reported that user to the mods for harassment. Hopefully she got banned from that sub.
polymath_uk@reddit
It's a consensus engine. Upvotes does not equate to objectively correct.
IMDXLNC@reddit
My default thought used to be that someone posted something so messed up or against a regular person's morals, that people rightfully told them off.
Now I know that even on simple entertainment/media subs, Reddit users will go rabid over something so minor, it's like they haven't looked in a mirror in years and are proud of being angry losers.
soratoyuki@reddit
The issue with every Reddit replacement is lack of a user base. The Fediverse (Lemmy, Pifed, Mbin, etc.) are a distant second to Reddit with no legit distant third.
Honestly the subreddit should be shutdown and just point people there.
Toothless_NEO@reddit
It is honestly better to just promote people going to the fediverse. Although I don't think that the subreddit should be shut down. A better option would be to simply restrict it to posting fediverse alternatives.
Honestly it kind of doesn't really make much sense to promote centralized platforms since they're all either dead or filled with bots. They're not going to be a real alternative.
Die4Ever@reddit
Yeah we can't fall trapped into the network effect again. The only viable path forward is the Fediverse
Mountain-Top-653@reddit
How about a site with verification that you are an individual like upload your ID or submit the last 4 of your ssn (US only)
qwerty30013@reddit
When you post like 80 times in 24 hours reddit thinks you’re a bot. Especially when it’s the kind of post over and over again.
hereswhatworks@reddit (OP)
I don't do that.
mnbhv@reddit
Looking for a reddit alternative? Check out my new project! Break free from this mad leftist cult.
VorpalBlade-@reddit
There are certain topics that get swarmed with bot downvotes and angry replies almost instantly.
Here’s a few examples that aren’t even that bad-
Kratom. Any recommendations for using this medicine plant that’s been used safely for a thousand years gets instant backlash. I think it’s because pharmaceutical companies can’t patent it or compete with it
NFTS- not the stupid image ones the ones that have the power to overturn the current financial system. If you put a serial number on every stock then everyone would automatically know how many and who owns what stock. Now they can print INFINITE amounts of stock and nobody knows how many shares are out there. Supply and demand is nonexistent in this scenario. Counterfeit shares have flooded the markets and bad actors use them to crush companies they don’t like and to steal trillions of dollars a year. Imagine being able to sell something you don’t actually own! As many times as you want!
Delicious_Ease2595@reddit
As big as Reddit there isn't, if you want participate on building a better place to ti a decentralized solution
Hotpossibility8793@reddit
Mirage is completely decentralized
NappyDougOut@reddit
It's everywhere online, because that's the only way sites & apps increase their profit, through generated arguments.
Reddit only "mutes" negative accounts on purpose, so people can stalk you long after you forget you muted them. This is the telling sign of apps that are out for profit from stoking arguments.
There are few apps that allow complete blocking, and if they do they're often not vibrant with users, because social media has trained people to gravitate only towards controversy that ruins reputations.
Toothless_NEO@reddit
What are you talking about? Reddit absolutely allows for you to completely block users. When you block somebody on Reddit they can no longer see your posts or comments, they can't reply to you, and they can't even upvote or downvote your posts.
It is a change on Reddit that was widely hated by trolls and bigots alike.
thefragile7393@reddit
The problem is that it isn’t limitless blocking like Facebook
RedditAlternatives-ModTeam@reddit
Please don't promote misinformation, for the purpose of dissuading alternatives, or for incitement of drama.
prototyperspective@reddit
This is what posting anything anyhow related to AI on the wikipedia sub is like for example. I wonder if it's organized to keep Wikimedia down instead of innovating (not talking about LLM texts). Anyway, the problem is not the site but the way things are structured. Things are structured here for echo chambers, up and downvotes, etc; not for rational deliberation where you can flag fallacies and put arguments into structured format etc. The problem is that sites where it's different like Kialo are not nearly as popular which means the audience and participation is far smaller. So I suggest you spend your time on Wikipedia.
finalaccountforreal@reddit
Piefed
Toothless_NEO@reddit
The best alternative to Reddit is currently the Fediverse. I think you should check out mander.xyz as a possible alternative. It's a Lemmy server dedicated to Science and nature. I feel like it might resonate with some of your interests.
Also, on the fediverse vote manipulation and sock puppeting is still a problem. The difference is that if you reach out to admins about it they can actually do something about some of it.
hereswhatworks@reddit (OP)
I just came up with an idea for a sub. It's called r/BotBan. Basically, anytime bots and organized harassers try to censor a post, you share that post on r/BotBan. If confirmed true, the human members of the sub attack the bots and harassers to the moderators.
barrygateaux@reddit
It already exists
r/thesefuckingaccounts
Warning_Holiday@reddit
You can try Surikata.app it's privacy based, not many people but slowly growing, no bots no fake content just people. The only rule is respect.
MarketCrache@reddit
https://www.oddsrabbit.com/
ChadpathianMadurist@reddit
Right now there's nothing you can really do to salvage a yourself an effective reddit-like platform. Lemmy is a very solid alternative with a small community that behaves like Reddit and is way more functional, rdrama is a website which you should check out if you just do not care anymore and want to bah humbug reddit culture from a right leaning perspective