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>Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Yes - it's all the sites that people link to on reddit :-P For the record, there's someth
by awesome_dude 3y ago
>Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet?
Yes - it's all the sites that people link to on reddit :-P
For the record, there's something happening to all the big Social Media sites over the last few years
IRC/Freenode - dead, replaced by Libera, but not nearly as vibrant as its heyday
Twitter - dying, replaced by Mastodon, Bluesky, and Instagram, none of them really capture the magic that was twitter, Bluesky feels a lot like Google+, Mastodon is regularly policed by people demanding that people not act like it's twitter.. and Instagram is for kids...
Facebook - seems to be dying, they've blown things with their advertising model, and the automagic content moderation is/was also a fail (it either judges everyone far too harshly, or not at all), the users are heading to FB's other sites (Instagram) or Tik Tok
Reddit - dying (but is this temporary?), being replaced by Lobsters, Hacker News, maybe more
Tik Tok - facing serious regulatory challenges in Europe and the US.
It's inevitable that things will die/change, I do find it really interesting that the big ones from the last decade are all suddenly finding themselves on the outer.
One of the exceptions is YouTube, which faced serious competition from the likes of Tik Tok, but still appears to be generating content/high readership, and seems largely immune to the absolute garbage that's been uploaded over the past few years (conspiracy nuts, politics, etc)
- Solvency 3y agoWhy does everyone forget Discourse? It's quietly enabling all of the best topic/product/niche-specific commmunities out there. https://discourse.mcneel.com https://discourse.mcneel.com as an example is a thriving treasure trove for CAD/Nurbs/product modelers/architects/etc.
- awesome_dude 3y agoHa! If people are forgetting it, is it really a competitor? Truth is, for me, I just don't use it - it's as bad as Slack IMO, but I'm sure that a lot of people are finding it worthwhile
- Solvency 3y agoHow is it bad? It's a message board by topic, sorted by last activity, and supports all kinds of media / preformatted text / replies / notifications / etc. If you don't like the community or subject matter, that makes sense. But what else are you looking for?
- tredre3 3y agoI'm trying to forget it. Honestly Discourse is truly awful. Navigation is terrible, finding stuff is terrible, the UX in general is just so bad compared to what it tries to replace (BB forums).
- Solvency 3y agoHow it is any different from a streamlined BB forum? * Topics are sorted the exact same way as a BB, by default. * Posts have all the usual multimedia features. * The search actually works. * It's super fast and minimal. I'm generally curious what your UX frustrations are here...
- Macha 3y ago1. You click a search result and the content that showed up in the search result snippet is not on the page you get linked to because it's only lazily loading the N most recent replies and there's been more than N since it was indexed by a search engine 2. When you try to Ctrl-F search it hijacks it with the server side search, it is slower than the browser search. It also does not reliably default to search in this thread, and sometimes fails to find content that's on screen even. 3. The WIP reply draft is synced across all your tabs, which can be obnoxious if you're trying to read one post to reply in another topic based on its contents.
- rafark 3y agoAgreed. It’s awful. It tried to innovate too much that it resulted in a not so easy to use app. Glad most forums use xenforo.
- Semaphor 3y agoBecause whenever I use it, I start feeling like maybe the XDA forums aren’t so bad.
- gaganyaan 3y agoI was just thinking today how I'd like to forget about Discourse. They overrode fucking ctrl+f to redirect it to their shitty search, and if you bother to activate an actually useful search tool like the one that comes in your browser, you can just get fucked. They use heavy amounts of javascript to load only a few comments in the DOM at a time so you can't find a damn thing. Terrible, terrible system that should've already been replaced by static html + htmx.
- gnoop 3y agoI'd add that Discord is also a modern IRC / Freenode. That seems to be one of the primary places people are flocking as they abandon most current social media sites.