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Between Reddit’s heavy-handed censorship, rampant site wide political biases, their terrible new UI, the dark patterns forcing users to the app, unexplained ban

Between Reddit’s heavy-handed censorship, rampant site wide political biases, their terrible new UI, the dark patterns forcing users to the app, unexplained bans of subreddits, overzealous mods, and deletion of discussions of Reddit alternatives (https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hib1oj/massbanning_superthread/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hib1oj/...), it is time for them to go the way of the dodo. Here’s a list of alternatives: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/list_of_active_reddit_alternatives_v5/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/hi97fz/...

meowster 6y ago
I click on the top alternative, Parler, and the root page redirects to some advertising page about the site. Whereas if I go to the root page of reddit, I get content. I think that's a huge turn off for alot of people. Show interesting content, and let the product speak for itself. If you go to Hacker News, you see content, you don't see a page explaining why Hacker News is great. I just closed the Parler website rather than figure out what hoops I have to jump through to see content and what it's like.
- throwawaysea 6y ago
  Parler is ranked highly because it was recently popularized on centrist and conservative media as an alternative to Twitter. That rank is misleading - it’s not necessarily the best because it is newer than some of the others, and it isn’t meant to be a direct Reddit alternative as much as a Twitter alternative. Some of the others like Ruqqus or Saidit are more of Reddit’s direct competitors.
8note 6y ago
https://youtu.be/r3snVCRo_bI https://youtu.be/r3snVCRo_bI If you're going to make an X alternative, you have cater to it's core audience. In Reddit's case, it's the power users (folks who post all the content) the moderators, and the commenters. If you don't give them stuff Reddit won't, you won't do well. A new platform has to be significantly better for all of those groups or it doesn't have a chance

meowster 6y ago

I click on the top alternative, Parler, and the root page redirects to some advertising page about the site. Whereas if I go to the root page of reddit, I get content. I think that's a huge turn off for alot of people. Show interesting content, and let the product speak for itself. If you go to Hacker News, you see content, you don't see a page explaining why Hacker News is great. I just closed the Parler website rather than figure out what hoops I have to jump through to see content and what it's like.

throwawaysea 6y ago
Parler is ranked highly because it was recently popularized on centrist and conservative media as an alternative to Twitter. That rank is misleading - it’s not necessarily the best because it is newer than some of the others, and it isn’t meant to be a direct Reddit alternative as much as a Twitter alternative. Some of the others like Ruqqus or Saidit are more of Reddit’s direct competitors.

8note 6y ago

https://youtu.be/r3snVCRo_bI https://youtu.be/r3snVCRo_bI If you're going to make an X alternative, you have cater to it's core audience. In Reddit's case, it's the power users (folks who post all the content) the moderators, and the commenters. If you don't give them stuff Reddit won't, you won't do well. A new platform has to be significantly better for all of those groups or it doesn't have a chance