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Curious what people have left reddit use now?

by m463 2y ago

OgsyedIE 2y ago
You could skim r/redditalternatives and see what site gets regularly repeated.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  ironic, isn't it? But lately a lot of that sub shifted towards a lighterform of r/watchredditdie or r/subredditdrama. Also a bit funny that I searched by /top/year and the 2nd post was "Can we just admit already that there isn't a good reddit alternative?"
deleted 2y ago
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dvngnt_ 2y ago
https://old.lemmy.world/ https://old.lemmy.world/ works
- nosioptar 2y ago
  I didn't know about the old subdomain. That's so much better than the standard lemmy ui.
  - dvngnt_ 2y ago
    it's a 3rd party extension https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym that some instances have enabled. i do wish this was integrated into lemmy though
add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
A combination of Lemmy, Bluesky, and most importantly, being generally less online than before. I'll no longer rely on a site enough to be seriously bothered if I need to leave because it turns as hostile as Twitter and Reddit did last year.
ZunarJ5 2y ago
https://lemmyverse.net/communities https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding lemmy communities :)
bad_username 2y ago
HN scratches that itch pretty well for me. It is also more useful and less toxic.
dredmorbius 2y ago
Books, podcasts, HN, the Fediverse. Occasionally Tildes.net. Reddit at best was marginally useful for content discovery. There are many alternatives now. Discussion quality had nearly always been abysmal, except on the very smallest subs. I've commented on this on HN many times: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adredmorbius%20Conversation%20doesn%27t%20scale%20reddit&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>. As David Weinberger noted, "conversation doesn't scale": <https://dweinberger.medium.com/the-social-web-before-social-networking-a-report-from-2003-3e8fe109cf0c https://dweinberger.medium.com/the-social-web-before-social-...>. "Wisdom of crowds" is proving to have been hugely overly-optimistic. High-quality information tends to associate more with expertise, whether the result of long study or on-the-ground first-hand knowledge. Neither are prevalent in large-scale discussions. Reddit's own gamification, trivialisation, AI-dragon-feeding, cozying up to Google, and exclusion of other search engines (I use DDG, recent Reddit content is largely absent AFAICT), are all highly negative developments. It may well be that Reddit as conceived cannot survive without taking this route. But in that case, it should be permitted to die. This is a worse fate.
- Root_Denied 2y ago
  As an alternative perspective: I'm still using reddit, but it's a very curated list of subreddits and once I stop seeing new content from that small list I end up going elsewhere. The subreddits I keep in my list are a mix of niche interests (such as a specific video game or geographic region), professional groups (I still enjoy r/sysadmin even though I haven't been one for years), and a couple of news/politics/economics for larger stories. Ad blockers and RES are the only reason I still use Reddit as much as I do. If they even do away with old.reddit or make it so RES doesn't work I'll scale back my usage even more.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  > High-quality information tends to associate more with expertise, whether the result of long study or on-the-ground first-hand knowledge. Neither are prevalent in large-scale discussions. I don't necessarily need high quality information. I mostly just aim for somewhat civil discussion. That's not easily scalable, but I geel its at least viable. Scott's old forums had a great guideline for "civility": https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/02/the-comment-policy-is-victorian-sufi-buddha-lite/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/02/the-comment-policy-is-...
RA2lover 2y ago
Left reddit during the API fiasco. HN replaced only part of reddit's niches for me. I tried using Lemmy for the other parts but it seems its federation model just gave more power to exactly the kind of moderators that made me dislike Reddit in the first place.
- FireBeyond 2y ago
  Same. Left then. And then when the AI training drama came along I found a script that edited all my posts then emptied them then deleted them. I was amazed how many people on HN get very pissy when hearing about that, and act almost as if you have an obligation to keep that content up (much like Stack when they started limiting people’s ability to delete their own posts…)
simonmic 2y ago
Discourse. A hosted instance at $50/month with the FOSS discount. Not everyone moved but it's far more pleasant.
Terr_ 2y ago
It's been tricky, but for the most part I've tried to stop needing the validation of saying something clever or helpful and seeing a number go up in validation. It's been hard, especially on days when other hobbies or tasks feel un-startable.
- Terr_ 2y ago
  P.S. I would also obsessively return to things and tweak them because they didn't sound just right, or because I noticed an error such as two "validation" clauses, which I partially blame on trying to edit text on a phone. In this respect, the 2-hour edit window of HN is both a blessing and a curse.
olliej 2y ago
Ever since they banned most search engines from indexing them I basically never end up on Reddit - all the search results are old and not relevant to any current search I might have.
johnnyanmac 2y ago
a mix of HN and Tildes. Still a few niche stuff I can only find on Reddit, but I haven't had an account for years at this point. Have my eyes on a few other sites, but they aren't really active enough to be considered anything other than a prototype as of now.
surgical_fire 2y ago
Nothing. I hard quit Reddit the day they killed RiF (along all 3rd party clients), never to come back. It was surprisingly easy to do so.
nicbou 2y ago
It was summer. I just went outside. It helped me on my quest to make my computer a quiet tool instead of a dopamine casino. When I am on the train I read HN, articles queued in Instapaper, RSS feeds and books. I am part of the great logging off.
attemptone 2y ago
4chan and I'm not ashamed of it. Even though it is anonymous you really feel a sense of community. Approach it as a creative writing exercise or as being part of a hive-mind and you'll find enjoyment in it. The amount of authentic and inspired posts is incredible. And yes it has it's ugly parts, they don't get a lot of traction though. I guess that part of its unattractiveness is deliberate. No advertisers want to touch it and that is probably why it survived for so long.

Curious what people have left reddit use now?

by m463 2y ago

Curious what people have left reddit use now?

OgsyedIE 2y ago

You could skim r/redditalternatives and see what site gets regularly repeated.

johnnyanmac 2y ago
ironic, isn't it? But lately a lot of that sub shifted towards a lighterform of r/watchredditdie or r/subredditdrama. Also a bit funny that I searched by /top/year and the 2nd post was "Can we just admit already that there isn't a good reddit alternative?"

deleted 2y ago

[deleted]

dvngnt_ 2y ago

https://old.lemmy.world/ https://old.lemmy.world/ works

nosioptar 2y ago
I didn't know about the old subdomain. That's so much better than the standard lemmy ui.
- dvngnt_ 2y ago
  it's a 3rd party extension https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym that some instances have enabled. i do wish this was integrated into lemmy though

add-sub-mul-div 2y ago

A combination of Lemmy, Bluesky, and most importantly, being generally less online than before. I'll no longer rely on a site enough to be seriously bothered if I need to leave because it turns as hostile as Twitter and Reddit did last year.

ZunarJ5 2y ago

https://lemmyverse.net/communities https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding lemmy communities :)

bad_username 2y ago

HN scratches that itch pretty well for me. It is also more useful and less toxic.

dredmorbius 2y ago

Books, podcasts, HN, the Fediverse. Occasionally Tildes.net. Reddit at best was marginally useful for content discovery. There are many alternatives now. Discussion quality had nearly always been abysmal, except on the very smallest subs. I've commented on this on HN many times: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adredmorbius%20Conversation%20doesn%27t%20scale%20reddit&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>. As David Weinberger noted, "conversation doesn't scale": <https://dweinberger.medium.com/the-social-web-before-social-networking-a-report-from-2003-3e8fe109cf0c https://dweinberger.medium.com/the-social-web-before-social-...>. "Wisdom of crowds" is proving to have been hugely overly-optimistic. High-quality information tends to associate more with expertise, whether the result of long study or on-the-ground first-hand knowledge. Neither are prevalent in large-scale discussions. Reddit's own gamification, trivialisation, AI-dragon-feeding, cozying up to Google, and exclusion of other search engines (I use DDG, recent Reddit content is largely absent AFAICT), are all highly negative developments. It may well be that Reddit as conceived cannot survive without taking this route. But in that case, it should be permitted to die. This is a worse fate.

Root_Denied 2y ago
As an alternative perspective: I'm still using reddit, but it's a very curated list of subreddits and once I stop seeing new content from that small list I end up going elsewhere. The subreddits I keep in my list are a mix of niche interests (such as a specific video game or geographic region), professional groups (I still enjoy r/sysadmin even though I haven't been one for years), and a couple of news/politics/economics for larger stories. Ad blockers and RES are the only reason I still use Reddit as much as I do. If they even do away with old.reddit or make it so RES doesn't work I'll scale back my usage even more.
johnnyanmac 2y ago
> High-quality information tends to associate more with expertise, whether the result of long study or on-the-ground first-hand knowledge. Neither are prevalent in large-scale discussions. I don't necessarily need high quality information. I mostly just aim for somewhat civil discussion. That's not easily scalable, but I geel its at least viable. Scott's old forums had a great guideline for "civility": https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/02/the-comment-policy-is-victorian-sufi-buddha-lite/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/02/the-comment-policy-is-...

RA2lover 2y ago

Left reddit during the API fiasco. HN replaced only part of reddit's niches for me. I tried using Lemmy for the other parts but it seems its federation model just gave more power to exactly the kind of moderators that made me dislike Reddit in the first place.

FireBeyond 2y ago
Same. Left then. And then when the AI training drama came along I found a script that edited all my posts then emptied them then deleted them. I was amazed how many people on HN get very pissy when hearing about that, and act almost as if you have an obligation to keep that content up (much like Stack when they started limiting people’s ability to delete their own posts…)

simonmic 2y ago

Discourse. A hosted instance at $50/month with the FOSS discount. Not everyone moved but it's far more pleasant.

Terr_ 2y ago

It's been tricky, but for the most part I've tried to stop needing the validation of saying something clever or helpful and seeing a number go up in validation. It's been hard, especially on days when other hobbies or tasks feel un-startable.

Terr_ 2y ago
P.S. I would also obsessively return to things and tweak them because they didn't sound just right, or because I noticed an error such as two "validation" clauses, which I partially blame on trying to edit text on a phone. In this respect, the 2-hour edit window of HN is both a blessing and a curse.

olliej 2y ago

Ever since they banned most search engines from indexing them I basically never end up on Reddit - all the search results are old and not relevant to any current search I might have.

johnnyanmac 2y ago

a mix of HN and Tildes. Still a few niche stuff I can only find on Reddit, but I haven't had an account for years at this point. Have my eyes on a few other sites, but they aren't really active enough to be considered anything other than a prototype as of now.

surgical_fire 2y ago

Nothing. I hard quit Reddit the day they killed RiF (along all 3rd party clients), never to come back. It was surprisingly easy to do so.

nicbou 2y ago

It was summer. I just went outside. It helped me on my quest to make my computer a quiet tool instead of a dopamine casino. When I am on the train I read HN, articles queued in Instapaper, RSS feeds and books. I am part of the great logging off.

attemptone 2y ago

4chan and I'm not ashamed of it. Even though it is anonymous you really feel a sense of community. Approach it as a creative writing exercise or as being part of a hive-mind and you'll find enjoyment in it. The amount of authentic and inspired posts is incredible. And yes it has it's ugly parts, they don't get a lot of traction though. I guess that part of its unattractiveness is deliberate. No advertisers want to touch it and that is probably why it survived for so long.