Alternatives to Reddit

Question

A forum with posts, voting, and subreddits. The same thing, but not evil.Look at the migration off twitter. Can&rsquo;t we migrate to another platform already?

linkdd · Accepted Answer

When talking about a business doing business, the concept of "evil" is non-sensical.
A business will do everything to stay profitable. That is the purpose of a business.
Any alternative to Reddit that gain some popularity is doomed to meet the same problems of scalability, infrastructure costs, and content moderation. Those things are not free, they cost money, therefore will be run by a business, doing business, trying to stay profitable, and will become "user hostile" once it is not profitable anymore.
This is the fate of any successful centralized social network.

ChildOfChaos · Answer

What makes you think Reddit is 'evil'? Or that any migration from Twitter has really happened to something that's better?

zzo38computer · Answer

I could do without the voting, and without many of the other features of Reddit, I think. I think that NNTP is much better. Different people can set up their own servers with their own newsgroups, and can also be linked together that others can then copy the messages too that can be send/received using multiple servers.

go_discover · Answer

I am looking at launching very soon - next week. It will be a brand new platform so it might not be something you're look for. Can I DM/email you when I launch? Even if you end up not using it, I'd appreciate any feedback I can get.

ggordan · Answer

There was a recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36345288

mdwalters · Answer

lemmy (https://lemmy.ml/) is a pretty good platform