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I don't follow reddit too closely. But I remember there was another big fiasco a while ago and a bunch of clones/spinoff sites were started. Have any of those s
by EscapeFromNY 3y ago
I don't follow reddit too closely. But I remember there was another big fiasco a while ago and a bunch of clones/spinoff sites were started. Have any of those survived? (and not been completely overrun with fringe political content that's banned everywhere else)
- djbusby 3y agohttps://tildes.net/ https://tildes.net/ Seems still alive.
- tgv 3y agoI mentioned this elsewhere: ruqqus and saidit seem to have failed getting traction. The latter one still exists (the former one doesn't, it seems), but is a cesspool of trolling, anti-everything-ism and conspiracy theorists.
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoThere was Voat and Ruqqus, both became INTENSE white nationalist sites. I think Ruqqus shut down? I know there are a bunch of spinoffs that use that codebase though, TheMotte, Ovarit, and rDrama
- rsynnott 3y agoPrevious Reddit controversies have mostly been about Reddit banning abhorrent content. This lead to clones which were, more or less from the start, just full of the worst people you can imagine. This limited their general attractiveness; normal people probably won’t want to use a Reddit clone which is populated mostly by Nazis, or by people who are creepily fixated on moaning about fat people, or by the upskirt people, or what have you. This would potentially be rather different, in that the group being driven away is more _normal_.