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I strongly believe they're going to remove old.reddit in the near future, and this problem will solve itself because most of us will leave for good. Every once

I strongly believe they're going to remove old.reddit in the near future, and this problem will solve itself because most of us will leave for good. Every once in a while I'm thrown into the new layout and it's just awful. Unbelievably bad. I can't believe people accept it. The problem is: I don't see a strong Reddit alternative. I really like the structure of nested conversations. I think it's a lot more efficient than forums and emails and chat rooms. Certain platforms like Gab are taking off, but that is more or less a Facebook clone. Getr is seeing enormous growth after Joe Rogan signed up, but that is a Twitter clone. Honestly, just give me Reddit of 10 years ago and don't mess it up again.

VVVExobyte 5y ago
Lemmy exists. join-lemmy.org
- Gareth321 5y ago
  Looks cool but very small user base. I suppose I should be the change I'm asking for and participate. Edit: "We are never going to remove the slur filter completely (or add an option to that effect), because we dont want to make it easy for right-wingers to use Lemmy." (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/816 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/816) I'm hardly right wing, but if the developers seek to suppress and remove anything they consider to be right wing, this is a hard pass from me. I am interested in discussion from a wide range of people with diverse opinions. I'm tired of echo chambers.
  - Dracophoenix 5y ago
    * Tildes.net * Saidit.net * Notabug.io There are more on https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/oioeot/list_of_active_reddit_alternatives_v7/ https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/oioeot/...
    - Gareth321 5y ago
      Thanks!
  - zozbot234 5y ago
    It's a federated platform so it doesn't even need a "big" user base, just good interop across sites.
    - Gareth321 5y ago
      I think the platform is great but there isn't much value to me as a user if few people are discussing interesting things.
  - sirl1on 5y ago
    The devs do not suppress or remove anything. They just will not accept PRs for things that they don't want to change as most free software projects do, e.g. sway won't accept PRs for nvidia-eglstreams. There are forks and instances that omit or adapt the slur filter. Maybe they will become the canonical lemmy fork in the future, maybe they won't, that's up to the contributors.
jamespo 5y ago
The first two alternatives to reddit that come to mind for you are Gab & Getr? Interesting.
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- selfhoster11 5y ago
  Gab? Sure why not. I simply loooove mixing with neo-Nazis /s Or at least that's the perception of the platform. Why should we have to mix with intolerant people just for the sake of a technologically non-hostile platform?

VVVExobyte 5y ago

Lemmy exists. join-lemmy.org

Gareth321 5y ago
Looks cool but very small user base. I suppose I should be the change I'm asking for and participate. Edit: "We are never going to remove the slur filter completely (or add an option to that effect), because we dont want to make it easy for right-wingers to use Lemmy." (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/816 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/816) I'm hardly right wing, but if the developers seek to suppress and remove anything they consider to be right wing, this is a hard pass from me. I am interested in discussion from a wide range of people with diverse opinions. I'm tired of echo chambers.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago
  * Tildes.net * Saidit.net * Notabug.io There are more on https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/oioeot/list_of_active_reddit_alternatives_v7/ https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/oioeot/...
  - Gareth321 5y ago
    Thanks!
- zozbot234 5y ago
  It's a federated platform so it doesn't even need a "big" user base, just good interop across sites.
  - Gareth321 5y ago
    I think the platform is great but there isn't much value to me as a user if few people are discussing interesting things.
- sirl1on 5y ago
  The devs do not suppress or remove anything. They just will not accept PRs for things that they don't want to change as most free software projects do, e.g. sway won't accept PRs for nvidia-eglstreams. There are forks and instances that omit or adapt the slur filter. Maybe they will become the canonical lemmy fork in the future, maybe they won't, that's up to the contributors.

jamespo 5y ago

The first two alternatives to reddit that come to mind for you are Gab & Getr? Interesting.

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selfhoster11 5y ago
Gab? Sure why not. I simply loooove mixing with neo-Nazis /s Or at least that's the perception of the platform. Why should we have to mix with intolerant people just for the sake of a technologically non-hostile platform?