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Yes, please! We need alternatives to the social media giants that are now obviously bent on monetization and other, shadier motives. Moves like this are what c

Yes, please! We need alternatives to the social media giants that are now obviously bent on monetization and other, shadier motives. Moves like this are what caused the huge Digg -> Reddit exodus that significantly boosted Reddit's popularity. People need other places to go when their favorite platform takes this seemingly inevitable path.

krabizzwainch 3y ago
I forgot about Digg and just went to look at it. Not a single thing is recognizable about it.
- utdoctor 3y ago
  I left Digg for Reddit after V4 dropped. It’s kind of surprising what Digg has turned into. I would have expected it would just continue course as it was (still maintaining comment sections & voting etc) but surprised it’s now just staff picked content from other sites.
  - krabizzwainch 3y ago
    Is it even that at this point? It looked kinda like Gizmodo now where its a few authors rewriting content from other pages, and then a ton of ads. I will say I scrolled for a little bit and my take away was generic tech blog, nothing too egregious but it doesn't do what it once did.
- pokerface_86 3y ago
  i feel similarly about reddit, the site is completely unrecognizable from when i first joined in 2013 looking for a way to keep up with the gaming industry without clickbait youtubers.
holler 3y ago
Building a public chat network / alternative to Reddit/Twitter/Discord at https://sqwok.im https://sqwok.im Create post -> share url -> instant chatroom based around the topic -> live chat with anyone on the net in seconds (hopefully have fun). Open to feedback :)
prox 3y ago
From a comment : >They’re trying to overvalue their services before going public. Execs want to cash out and move to a tropical island. I can’t wait for this cesspool to fail. This is their real motivation. You can’t fight that honestly. Greed is good for these folks.
piva00 3y ago
I was part of the Digg -> Reddit exodus at the time, I loved Digg until they destroyed it, had a Reddit account for long but never really used it. Now with Reddit trying to shutdown Apollo and other 3rd party clients with this pricing move I can see myself never using Reddit, their official client sucks a lot (it's unfortunate they bought Alien Blue just to kill it, which gave Apollo the chance to rise from those ashes), if Apollo dies... I will simply not use Reddit as much, the only other way I can use Reddit right now is through old.reddit.com, that sucks on mobile browsers without RES. It seems I will soon experience a repeat of Digg with Reddit, slowly use it less and less because the experience is broken until the moment I forget it exists.
- mebizzle 3y ago
  With the Digg exodus, Reddit was already the strong #2 alternative for a decent amount of time so it was a no-brainer and obviously Reddit has grown exponentially beyond what Digg was. I have no idea what is out there as an alternative at this point, there just seems to be too much chaff everywhere.
  - Casteil 3y ago
    Yep, Twitter is currently enjoying this effect of having no "close 2nd" choice for their user base to defect to.
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    I've looked for a long time. Tildes feels like a good #2, but it seems content remaining extremely small. I think it's still invite only after 5 years. Pretty much all alternatives I looked at lacked community. Not expecting reddit numbers, but even a threshold as simple as "more than 5 posts/20 comments a day" was a huge hurdle here. Social media is just so centralized now.

krabizzwainch 3y ago

I forgot about Digg and just went to look at it. Not a single thing is recognizable about it.

utdoctor 3y ago
I left Digg for Reddit after V4 dropped. It’s kind of surprising what Digg has turned into. I would have expected it would just continue course as it was (still maintaining comment sections & voting etc) but surprised it’s now just staff picked content from other sites.
- krabizzwainch 3y ago
  Is it even that at this point? It looked kinda like Gizmodo now where its a few authors rewriting content from other pages, and then a ton of ads. I will say I scrolled for a little bit and my take away was generic tech blog, nothing too egregious but it doesn't do what it once did.
pokerface_86 3y ago
i feel similarly about reddit, the site is completely unrecognizable from when i first joined in 2013 looking for a way to keep up with the gaming industry without clickbait youtubers.

holler 3y ago

Building a public chat network / alternative to Reddit/Twitter/Discord at https://sqwok.im https://sqwok.im Create post -> share url -> instant chatroom based around the topic -> live chat with anyone on the net in seconds (hopefully have fun). Open to feedback :)

prox 3y ago

From a comment : >They’re trying to overvalue their services before going public. Execs want to cash out and move to a tropical island. I can’t wait for this cesspool to fail. This is their real motivation. You can’t fight that honestly. Greed is good for these folks.

piva00 3y ago

I was part of the Digg -> Reddit exodus at the time, I loved Digg until they destroyed it, had a Reddit account for long but never really used it. Now with Reddit trying to shutdown Apollo and other 3rd party clients with this pricing move I can see myself never using Reddit, their official client sucks a lot (it's unfortunate they bought Alien Blue just to kill it, which gave Apollo the chance to rise from those ashes), if Apollo dies... I will simply not use Reddit as much, the only other way I can use Reddit right now is through old.reddit.com, that sucks on mobile browsers without RES. It seems I will soon experience a repeat of Digg with Reddit, slowly use it less and less because the experience is broken until the moment I forget it exists.

mebizzle 3y ago
With the Digg exodus, Reddit was already the strong #2 alternative for a decent amount of time so it was a no-brainer and obviously Reddit has grown exponentially beyond what Digg was. I have no idea what is out there as an alternative at this point, there just seems to be too much chaff everywhere.
- Casteil 3y ago
  Yep, Twitter is currently enjoying this effect of having no "close 2nd" choice for their user base to defect to.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  I've looked for a long time. Tildes feels like a good #2, but it seems content remaining extremely small. I think it's still invite only after 5 years. Pretty much all alternatives I looked at lacked community. Not expecting reddit numbers, but even a threshold as simple as "more than 5 posts/20 comments a day" was a huge hurdle here. Social media is just so centralized now.