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Check out Hubski (https://hubski.com https://hubski.com). It's got a great community, and a unique way displaying and moderating posts. Instead of subreddits,

Check out Hubski (https://hubski.com https://hubski.com). It's got a great community, and a unique way displaying and moderating posts. Instead of subreddits, you follow users and tags. When you upvote posts, you share them with whoever follows you. It's sort of like a community web of trust. It works really well.

sebtoast 9y ago
Some alternative's I have bookmarked: https://hubski.com/ https://hubski.com/ https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ https://snapzu.com https://snapzu.com https://soylentnews.org/ https://soylentnews.org/ and Voat. I don't really use them so I can't do a good review. I had some more bookmarked but can't find them at the moment.
- therobotking 9y ago
  Would you be able to send me an invitation to signup to lobste.rs please? mail at-symbol therobotking dotcom
  - am1988 9y ago
    Any site which requires this type of thing to signup sounds like one I don't want to be a part of. Seems like a recipe for a hive mind.
    - msla 9y ago
      You get a hive mind or you get regression to the mean, by which I mean you either aggressively filter for people with specific qualities, which is apparently a hive mind scenario, or you end up with the same kind of commentators you find on every other let-everyone-in platform.
      - krapp 9y ago
        So Hacker News is a regression to the mean, then?
        vacri 9y ago
        Sure. It's much more general-interest than it used to be, and business content has cratered.
  - sebtoast 9y ago
    I sent you the invite. For some reason I can't reply to am1988 but maybe he's right, I don't know.
- h4waii 9y ago
  If you're giving out invites, I'd sure take one. lobster at_sign laro DOT se
pmoriarty 9y ago
One thing that makes traditional forums and groups work is that if any one participant leaves, the group conversations will continue without them. I'm not really sure how that would work in a site where the conversations are focused around specific users.
- rthomas6 9y ago
  Good point. Here is why I don't see that as a problem. 1. Things are democratic overall. You tend to follow people that share things that you like. You see what they post AND what they "upvote". Whenever someone votes on something, it also shares to their followers. Combined with some weighting on how popular a post is, and how recently it has been touched by someone else, this effectively means that you get a list of posts relevant to your interests, sorted by popularity. Any one person leaving would have negligible impact on your feed's content. 2. You also follow topic tags.

sebtoast 9y ago

Some alternative's I have bookmarked: https://hubski.com/ https://hubski.com/ https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/ https://snapzu.com https://snapzu.com https://soylentnews.org/ https://soylentnews.org/ and Voat. I don't really use them so I can't do a good review. I had some more bookmarked but can't find them at the moment.

therobotking 9y ago
Would you be able to send me an invitation to signup to lobste.rs please? mail at-symbol therobotking dotcom
- am1988 9y ago
  Any site which requires this type of thing to signup sounds like one I don't want to be a part of. Seems like a recipe for a hive mind.
  - msla 9y ago
    You get a hive mind or you get regression to the mean, by which I mean you either aggressively filter for people with specific qualities, which is apparently a hive mind scenario, or you end up with the same kind of commentators you find on every other let-everyone-in platform.
    - krapp 9y ago
      So Hacker News is a regression to the mean, then?
      - vacri 9y ago
        Sure. It's much more general-interest than it used to be, and business content has cratered.
- sebtoast 9y ago
  I sent you the invite. For some reason I can't reply to am1988 but maybe he's right, I don't know.
h4waii 9y ago
If you're giving out invites, I'd sure take one. lobster at_sign laro DOT se

pmoriarty 9y ago

One thing that makes traditional forums and groups work is that if any one participant leaves, the group conversations will continue without them. I'm not really sure how that would work in a site where the conversations are focused around specific users.

rthomas6 9y ago
Good point. Here is why I don't see that as a problem. 1. Things are democratic overall. You tend to follow people that share things that you like. You see what they post AND what they "upvote". Whenever someone votes on something, it also shares to their followers. Combined with some weighting on how popular a post is, and how recently it has been touched by someone else, this effectively means that you get a list of posts relevant to your interests, sorted by popularity. Any one person leaving would have negligible impact on your feed's content. 2. You also follow topic tags.