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What are the best Reddit clones these days? I've seen voat but heard it's overrun by the alt right. Hubski seemed interesting but basically seems dead now. Any

What are the best Reddit clones these days? I've seen voat but heard it's overrun by the alt right. Hubski seemed interesting but basically seems dead now. Anything else out there? Reddit is really losing its appeal to me with their desktop/mobile site changes. That and I feel the contents been getting less interesting. Like it's just memes or sensational politics everywhere. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Skunkleton 8y ago
Hacker News isn't a bad alternative ;)
- tomc1985 8y ago
  This place has a really strong pro-cloud pro-JS bent tho
  - dawnerd 8y ago
    Pro js? Seems every thread about something built in javascript is full of people bashing it.
    - tomc1985 8y ago
      We are but tiny voices against the masses
    - chomp 8y ago
      JavaScript is a pretty popular language. Also HN is a slice of the developer community at large. I think anything that discusses JS is going to look pro-JS to a person that hates it. I don't think parent will find any high traffic developer discussion forum where people don't discuss JavaScript. I admit I don't like the language, but there's definitely both camps on this site, seemingly in similar proportions.
  - Skunkleton 8y ago
    It beats the pro-meme bent of other sites though.
  - soperj 8y ago
    Lobste.rs
    - Skunkleton 8y ago
      How is life over there? The idea of an invitation tree certainly sounds nice.
  - stephengillie 8y ago
    No other language executes in browsers for historic reasons.[0] And there is reduced friction to developing all parts of the stack in a single language. Not all Javascript developers support the current state of the Node ecosystem. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051521
  - JustSomeNobody 8y ago
    Of course it is because it serves the startup community and something like 99.999% of startups are web apps and ... well... javascript.
md224 8y ago
The key is subscribing to subreddits that match your interests. /r/all is like the sun: it can brighten your day, but if you stare at it you might just go blind. Also, if you find The Next Reddit, let me know so I can build a new AskOuija there. :P
- dingaling 8y ago
  For me, just casually dropping in to subreddits from a web search, I recoil at the suggestion of signing-up and slogging through curating and filtering until I achieve Reddit Nirvana. Life is too short. Particularly when other topic-focused communities already exist i.e. what problem are subreddits solving? And to invert that to the whole set, what problem is Reddit solving? I think they've asked themselves that and the response is this new UX which has the non-answer 'don't know, but let's keep eyeballs on our site and away from Facebook'.
  - md224 8y ago
    > Particularly when other topic-focused communities already exist i.e. what problem are subreddits solving? Subreddits don’t necessarily solve a problem... they’re just a well-made framework for content sharing and conversation, combining ideas from previous message board systems to provide a good user experience. But it’s the way Reddit combines them that makes them useful, which means I can’t answer this question without answering the following one: > And to invert that to the whole set, what problem is Reddit solving? Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but the answer seems blatantly obvious to me: it allows you to have all of your communities on a single platform. It creates a kind of meta-community... a user you interact with in one subreddit may show up later in another. Why would you create multiple independent accounts at multiple message boards across the web when you can have one account and one simple feed of relevant posts from all of your communities? > I recoil at the suggestion of signing-up and slogging through curating and filtering until I achieve Reddit Nirvana. Life is too short. I’m honestly perplexed as to why you think setting up a Reddit account is this gargantuan task. You find a few communities based on your interests and you subscribe to them. That’s it. And you don’t have to do it all at once. You can join as many or as few subreddits as you like, whenever you feel like it. I must be missing something here. What topic-focused communities do you prefer? Are you talking about Facebook Groups?
rnet85 8y ago
Like with anything, you need to carefully curate what you consume. Like Twitter, Reddit can be an excellent place if you follow only subreddits that intrigue you.
- JustSomeNobody 8y ago
  Exactly. There are some really good communities on Reddit and really awful communities on Reddit. A couple examples of good ones: /r/homelab /r/homeserver /r/selfhosted
kmfrk 8y ago
There just aren't any. The same thing goes for the forums (bulletin boards) I go to. But Xenforo is a really polished CMS with some good skins beside the god-awful default one. It's no vBulletin.

Skunkleton 8y ago

Hacker News isn't a bad alternative ;)

tomc1985 8y ago
This place has a really strong pro-cloud pro-JS bent tho
- dawnerd 8y ago
  Pro js? Seems every thread about something built in javascript is full of people bashing it.
  - tomc1985 8y ago
    We are but tiny voices against the masses
  - chomp 8y ago
    JavaScript is a pretty popular language. Also HN is a slice of the developer community at large. I think anything that discusses JS is going to look pro-JS to a person that hates it. I don't think parent will find any high traffic developer discussion forum where people don't discuss JavaScript. I admit I don't like the language, but there's definitely both camps on this site, seemingly in similar proportions.
- Skunkleton 8y ago
  It beats the pro-meme bent of other sites though.
- soperj 8y ago
  Lobste.rs
  - Skunkleton 8y ago
    How is life over there? The idea of an invitation tree certainly sounds nice.
- stephengillie 8y ago
  No other language executes in browsers for historic reasons.[0] And there is reduced friction to developing all parts of the stack in a single language. Not all Javascript developers support the current state of the Node ecosystem. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17051521
- JustSomeNobody 8y ago
  Of course it is because it serves the startup community and something like 99.999% of startups are web apps and ... well... javascript.

md224 8y ago

The key is subscribing to subreddits that match your interests. /r/all is like the sun: it can brighten your day, but if you stare at it you might just go blind. Also, if you find The Next Reddit, let me know so I can build a new AskOuija there. :P

dingaling 8y ago
For me, just casually dropping in to subreddits from a web search, I recoil at the suggestion of signing-up and slogging through curating and filtering until I achieve Reddit Nirvana. Life is too short. Particularly when other topic-focused communities already exist i.e. what problem are subreddits solving? And to invert that to the whole set, what problem is Reddit solving? I think they've asked themselves that and the response is this new UX which has the non-answer 'don't know, but let's keep eyeballs on our site and away from Facebook'.
- md224 8y ago
  > Particularly when other topic-focused communities already exist i.e. what problem are subreddits solving? Subreddits don’t necessarily solve a problem... they’re just a well-made framework for content sharing and conversation, combining ideas from previous message board systems to provide a good user experience. But it’s the way Reddit combines them that makes them useful, which means I can’t answer this question without answering the following one: > And to invert that to the whole set, what problem is Reddit solving? Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but the answer seems blatantly obvious to me: it allows you to have all of your communities on a single platform. It creates a kind of meta-community... a user you interact with in one subreddit may show up later in another. Why would you create multiple independent accounts at multiple message boards across the web when you can have one account and one simple feed of relevant posts from all of your communities? > I recoil at the suggestion of signing-up and slogging through curating and filtering until I achieve Reddit Nirvana. Life is too short. I’m honestly perplexed as to why you think setting up a Reddit account is this gargantuan task. You find a few communities based on your interests and you subscribe to them. That’s it. And you don’t have to do it all at once. You can join as many or as few subreddits as you like, whenever you feel like it. I must be missing something here. What topic-focused communities do you prefer? Are you talking about Facebook Groups?

rnet85 8y ago

Like with anything, you need to carefully curate what you consume. Like Twitter, Reddit can be an excellent place if you follow only subreddits that intrigue you.

JustSomeNobody 8y ago
Exactly. There are some really good communities on Reddit and really awful communities on Reddit. A couple examples of good ones: /r/homelab /r/homeserver /r/selfhosted

kmfrk 8y ago

There just aren't any. The same thing goes for the forums (bulletin boards) I go to. But Xenforo is a really polished CMS with some good skins beside the god-awful default one. It's no vBulletin.