I've been a Reddit user since about the time that the Digg Patriots poisoned the well over at Digg... At least that's what prompted me to make an account. Read

I've been a Reddit user since about the time that the Digg Patriots poisoned the well over at Digg... At least that's what prompted me to make an account. Reading through the comments here is a bit weird for me because it seems like I have a much different experience that most folks here. I suspect this is because a) I use the RES browser extension to filter out a great many useless or unpleasant subreddits and b) most of my time on Reddit is spent moderating. The redesign however, is a bit of disaster. Even though I don't care for the look I would have used it but when they rolled it out and made it the default experience it lacked the basic functionality for moderators which is where I spend the majority of my time on Reddit. For two years every time the admins released some improvement to it, I would go back and try to use it and couldn't... so I gave up and branded it "worse.Reddit" Anyway, I suppose it's about time to find an alternative to Reddit but I've yet to find a site where I can create and curate niche communities, like I do on Reddit or where I could somehow transfer the collected data and experience of the larger subreddits I moderate to some other site (which isn't already home to unpleasant extremists who left Reddit). So far I know about: https://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/ and https://dev.lemmy.ml/ https://dev.lemmy.ml/. I sorta lean towards lemmy but I don't have a solid reason for that. Lastly fingerprinting on Reddit seems like a very useful and very needed solution to problems that have little to do with targetted advertising or selling private user data.