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Anyone know of any sane alternatives to reddit?

by dingledork69 3y ago

2Gkashmiri 3y ago
lemmy
ilc 3y ago
You imply reddit is sane. :)
happytiger 3y ago
Need to make a new one. Got to be a hybrid of decentralized and centralized so you can replace it now with an equivalent and then harden it to interference and embolden encryption and hacker ethics over time as social media platforms get sucked in to late empire control complexes. Is that possible technically? I can see it in my head but I don’t know how to create it.
- witchesindublin 3y ago
  I think Reddit and other social media share the same problem in that people don't naturally share the same piece of information with EVERYONE they know. Your girlfriend/boyfriend might be interested in your marriage plans, but your friends might be more interested in talking about games. The former might be horrified at you playing shooting games, and the latter might be horrified that you want kids. In real life the two things would be segregated, but social media is often merged and it's impossible to separate the two. Social media has got very mass market in recent years and the civil intelligent discussions that you would have when only [traditional] geeky types were around, even between people of differing political views, have gone down the drain. But the main problem with Reddit was that it was too over-zealous with moderation after the Trump election, and it's basically been a downward hill since then since the echo chamber bandwagon just gets more and more self-fulfilling. It's silly to the point many international subreddits are utterly non-sensical and sometimes racist to the country the subreddit covers!
local_crmdgeon 3y ago
These days - and I'm being serious - Facebook Groups. They've gotten fantastic in the last few years. Are lighthearted, comprehensive, tend to have less weirdos (really) and have a moderation log that notifies you what and why it was removed. Also, Facebook is a more representative slice of America than Reddit or Twitter.
- dingledork69 3y ago
  I'm not American, and would like something pseudonymous.

Anyone know of any sane alternatives to reddit?

2Gkashmiri 3y ago

lemmy

ilc 3y ago

You imply reddit is sane. :)

happytiger 3y ago

Need to make a new one. Got to be a hybrid of decentralized and centralized so you can replace it now with an equivalent and then harden it to interference and embolden encryption and hacker ethics over time as social media platforms get sucked in to late empire control complexes. Is that possible technically? I can see it in my head but I don’t know how to create it.

witchesindublin 3y ago
I think Reddit and other social media share the same problem in that people don't naturally share the same piece of information with EVERYONE they know. Your girlfriend/boyfriend might be interested in your marriage plans, but your friends might be more interested in talking about games. The former might be horrified at you playing shooting games, and the latter might be horrified that you want kids. In real life the two things would be segregated, but social media is often merged and it's impossible to separate the two. Social media has got very mass market in recent years and the civil intelligent discussions that you would have when only [traditional] geeky types were around, even between people of differing political views, have gone down the drain. But the main problem with Reddit was that it was too over-zealous with moderation after the Trump election, and it's basically been a downward hill since then since the echo chamber bandwagon just gets more and more self-fulfilling. It's silly to the point many international subreddits are utterly non-sensical and sometimes racist to the country the subreddit covers!

local_crmdgeon 3y ago

These days - and I'm being serious - Facebook Groups. They've gotten fantastic in the last few years. Are lighthearted, comprehensive, tend to have less weirdos (really) and have a moderation log that notifies you what and why it was removed. Also, Facebook is a more representative slice of America than Reddit or Twitter.

dingledork69 3y ago
I'm not American, and would like something pseudonymous.