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Not surprising. I've grown increasingly tired of reddit over the last few months, but I haven't found an adequate alternative. Any suggestions? What sites do yo
by TheAceOfHearts 10y ago
Not surprising. I've grown increasingly tired of reddit over the last few months, but I haven't found an adequate alternative. Any suggestions? What sites do you commonly visit?
Maybe this is my own bias showing, but whenever I read a Microsoft article on reddit, my shilling senses start tingling. I've seen a few confirmed examples, although luckily they usually end up getting banned.
- stagbeetle 10y agoHave you tried Voat? I couldn't stand it, but it works for some.
- dahdum 10y agoI'm glad Voat exists, but it's not somewhere I frequent. The more Reddit and Twitter crack down on speech the faster Voat and Gab will grow.
- yellow_viper 10y agoVoats model is good but filled with angry men (and the people on fatpeoplehate seem to be mainly women from what I've read). We need a max exodus from Reddit to even the odds
- dashundchen 10y agoEvery exodus from reddit to Voat is when the most toxic subreddits are closed - /r/jailbait, which was basically child porn, /r/altright, which was doxxing and putting out hitlists on those they disagreed with, some extremely racist subreddits I'd rather not write out. It's a cesspool of white supremacists and otherwise awful people.
- xatan_dank 10y agoI don't know if a shill-free alternative to Reddit could ever exist- I tend to think the openness and scale of Reddit (which is the whole point of it) is what allows shilling to occur. It really bums me out.
- unethical_ban 10y agoThe site itself would have to be attempting to detect and flag networks of users, and take some kind of action.
- xatan_dank 10y agoSure, but I think that is actually a very difficult problem: how do we determine whether a comment is being sincere or not? Furthermore, assuming we had a foolproof method to do this, would the site have enough funds to use it routinely and ethically? I think this is the problem we're seeing now with a large number of tech companies.