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It’s all a cycle. I’m sure something like early Reddit will pop up soon (might already exist).
by me_me_mu_mu 4y ago
It’s all a cycle. I’m sure something like early Reddit will pop up soon (might already exist).
- AndrewOMartin 4y agoYou might already be posting on it :)
- mort96 4y agoNo? HN is not in any way, shape or form a replacement for Reddit.
- 0dayz 4y agoEh, HN is very much like reddit /r/technology + /r/programming but without fancy editor.
- AlecSchueler 4y agoMore like Reddit in the days before subreddits.
- moffkalast 4y agoWell it actually IS what reddit used to be. It's almost a carbon copy of the early versions before subreddits were a thing, though HN has slightly worse css and usability, presumably to keep out the normies and to make it run from that one raspberry pi that ycombinator has allocated to hosting it. I do sorta wish HN had reply notifications.
- moehm 4y ago> I do sorta wish HN had reply notifications. There is a 3rd party app for that, though I haven't tried it yet. https://www.hnreplies.com/ https://www.hnreplies.com/
- lproven 4y agoI use it. It's excellent and works well. The only problem with it is that it does not send you replies to your submissions, e.g. AskHN posts.
- robjan 4y agoIt's by design to make flame wars harder to sustain
- moffkalast 4y agoI'd believe that if it wasn't computationally intensive and HN wasn't already struggling under the 5 people that visit. I'm sure it's merely this way to reduce server load.
- robswc 4y agoI personally use it as my reddit replacement ;) But I agree.
- gryn 4y agoFYI both Ycombinator and reddit have the same age, both were created in 2005 according to Wikipedia. It kinda weird because for some reason in my mind Ycombinator was 5 year-ish older.
- Sightline 4y agohttps://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- justaj 4y agoPSA: Don't use this for a Tor hidden service forum as it heavily relies on JS to be functional.
- alexb_ 4y ago>selfhosted AAAAAND you lost literally 95% of every single person who might even consider using this. Stop trying to make "fediverse" happen. It's not going to happen. All you do is end up putting great developers into projects that will literally never, ever amount to anything due to an insistence on decentralization.
- mariusor 4y agoI disagree, I think slowly communities of reddit will migrate to self hosted versions of it, be them lemmy or any of the other federated alternatives that are out there. I work on one of those, and I have been contacted twice by moderators of small/medium subreddits being interested in using my software for taking their users off reddit. Sadly, nothing concrete happened, but it shows me that there really is an interest.
- mariusor 4y agoI think that Lemmy is not really a replacement for the old reddit. Lemmy devs are too fond of frontend Javascript to qualify in my opinion. The federated alternative that I'm building[1], is trying to specifically keep some of the benefits of old reddit (and of HN, and of lobste.rs), most important of which being that it has no reliance on Javascript and that it has a minimal size footprint. [1] https://littr.me https://littr.me (just a demo instance)
- wbsss4412 4y agoI think tildes.net is an interesting one and has potential, though I must confess that I don’t really go there all that much because there’s too little activity for me to find what I’m interested in, so far.