Klein has talked about this before so I understand editorial/advertising wall, but every.single.one of the ads I've had on the NYT episodes has been a Facebook ad, so besides the 'Facebook sucks' angle it's just gotten so annoyingly repetitive.
It's annoying but it's just the way goes. That said, Klein absolutely needs to take advantage of 'the wall' and do an episode where a guest (and him) tear into Facebook. How about talking about how they've been caught for fraud 3 times now and Sheryl Sandberg, the COO, is credibly implicated in the fraud? How about talking how the Facebook platform helped people incite a Genocide? How about discussing about Facebook elevating far-right media (Breitbart) in its "high quality news" tab, right before the USA public's collective intelligence essentially collapsed due to the far-right's COVID-19 and election misinformation?
Any of those would do nicely.
(Tildes is my site)
The site is public to view now, but still requires an invite to register/participate: https://tildes.net
The best explanation of the overall goals is the announcement blog post: Announcing Tildes - a non-profit community site driven by its users' interests
If anyone's interested in an invite you can email me for one, instructions are in the blog post (but please check the site and read the post first—Tildes isn't a direct parallel to reddit and you'll be disappointed if you're expecting it to be).
And yes, users can't create groups yet. Other sites that allow that immediately just end up with hundreds or thousands of completely inactive communities, it's important not to fragment the userbase too much while it's small. reddit didn't allow subreddit creation either for over 3 years, and only had a handful of subreddits before that. I can create new ones if a strong demand for particular subjects comes up.
>but where do we go then?
Probably over to the open-source and non-profit reddit clone called Tildes.net created by Deimorz. He's an ex-Reddit admin and also the creator of AutoModerator.
More info can be found over at /r/tildes.
Sorry to say it, but that almost is a thing.
(tl;dr 'Donuts' experiment currently going on over at /r/ethtrader could (and presumably still can be — I haven't followed this lately) be traded for actual Ethereum, and then from there, money)
Basically 2 reasons: 1. Tildes hasn't reached any kind of critical mass, yet; 2. Tildes doesn't have a vocal left space like this, yet.
If anyone wants to help on either of those counts, I have 92 invites to give out. https://tildes.net
The code on GitLab is identical to what's running in production, there's nothing hidden or different at all.
So yes, if you set it up, it would be invite-only, exactly as the site is. It should be pretty straightforward to disable that part of the code if you want to.
You'll probably need to do a bit of work to set it up on an actual server (and I honestly probably wouldn't recommend it unless you're pretty familiar with sysadmin-ish tasks), this info should help: https://tildes.net/~tildes/beq/hosting_my_own_tildes#comment-2u9k
Overall, it hasn't been set up very well for people to host their own versions yet, so there are probably quite a few things that are specific to Tildes that might be a little annoying to change (for example, there's no way to just change the site name in a single place or anything). Most of it's probably not bad though, you just might have to change some things if you notice it's still mentioning Tildes or referencing tildes.net.
Come join us at tildes where we explicitly have a zero tolerance policy on assholery and hate speech of any kind.
Site is ran an operated off of donations, is open source, and values high quality discussion similar to Hacker News or Lobsters, but we are not just tech/business oriented. Deimos, the owner/operator was a Reddit admin way back in the day before leaving the company to found Tildes, specifically because of the problems Reddit faces.
Site is invite only at the moment but I have 5 invites I can dump so PM me if you want to check the site out or head over to /r/tildes and browse what info our subreddit has to offer.
At this point I check Tildes in the morning before Reddit because the content and community is all around better. We have a focus on quality submissions and discussion as well as resptful correspondence between users. Plus things are so early on in Tilde's development that you can still bring your individual ideas and opinions up to help decide what the site will become.
3 characters is the minimum length it seems. Just trying to browse to a single letter username gives an error: https://tildes.net/user/a
Given that, assuming we want the exhaustive list, theres 26 letters in the alphabet, so 17,576 possible three letter usernames. Assuming we only care about dictionary words (I'm using the US english dictionary on my OS), I get 1276 real word usernames.
Highly doubt we're anywhere near either of those counts being used
Definitely check out tildes. It’s run by a former reddit admin, /u/deimos and is non-profit, no ads, etc.
Invite-only at the moment since it’s small and can’t scale to Reddit sizes yet, but they have invite threads over at /r/tildes every couple of weeks or so.
I’ve been with Reddit 11+ years and it’s only been since /u/spez came back that they’ve really started to sell out. Taking $200M in venture capital requires big changes to support a big return, unfortunately.
There's a site called Tildes that's in alpha, right now. It's aimed to be pretty much like reddit, but it's not-for-profit, so it's not driven for "more viewtime! more ads! more data collection!" etc. If you want to check it out, https://tildes.net/ is the address. It's currently invite only, but if you shoot the creator an email, he'll probably invite you.
Well, there are a number of alternatives that only have upvotes, no downvotes.
Hubski uses shares instead of votes. It mostly functions the same as votes, for deciding the order of comments in a comment section. But additionally, if a user you follow shares a comment, it will show on your chatter feed.
Tildes has upvotes, but it uses labels instead of downvotes. That means you have to explain why you think it's a bad comment, and it doesn't have any effect until a number of other users has given it the same label. (The exemplary label is like a super-upvote. You get one of those a day.)
That's why I'm following the creation of https://tildes.net very closely. It's Deimos' pet project and it removes the downvote in favor of slashdot style tags. Users can filter all "joke" tags for example in the comments. Since jokes are highly valued on reddit comments for karma generation that will have a massive impact on how topics are discussed. Conversely, "wtf" and "controversial" can be filtered for a more reddit-like comment section.
I have a few tildes.net invite codes, PM me if you want one (you can also ask in /r/tildes).
If you haven't heard of it, it's a reddit-like site, built by a former reddit dev. The overall site goals are worth a read, and I think align very well with what the goals of /r/SeaWA are:
> low tolerance for people that consistently make others' experience worse
edit: my invites are gone, but /r/tildes gives them out pretty regularly
Het probleem is dat er ook genoeg problemen zijn met allochtonen. Dit heeft trouwens alles te maken met sociaaleconomische achtergrond en niks met afkomst, maar dat terzijde. Ik heb daar ergens anders wat meer over geschreven.
Het ding is, we herkennen allemaal subtiele aanwijzingen over iemands persoon. Aan wat voor kleren de persoon draagt bijvoorbeeld, of de haardracht, de houding, de manier de persoon loopt, enz. Dit soort stereotypes zijn natuurlijk lang niet altijd toepasbaar, maar er zit bijna altijd wel een zekere kern van waarheid in (soms is deze groter dan anders).
En ... dit geld dus ook voor dingen zoals achtergrond, met name als deze makkelijk te herkennen is aan het uiterlijk (b.v. door huidskleur). Als het zo is zoals /u/Penenes zegt dat 9 van de 10 mensen die ze staande houd mensen met een migratieachtergrond zijn dan is het moeilijk om niet bevooroordeeld te zijn, bewust of onbewust. Ik wil daar niks mee goedpraten en het geeft mij ook een ongemakkelijk gevoel, niet in de laatste plaats omdat de grote aantal normale mensen hiermee lastig gevallen worden, maar tegelijkertijd is het denk ik ook goed om ook goed stil te staan over waarom de dingen zijn zoals ze zijn, zonder daar meteen een oordeel aan vast te knopen. Dat is immers de beste manier om het probleem op te lossen.
Persoonlijk denk ik dan ook dat de oplossing zit in het aanpakken van de sociaaleconomische verschillen. Niet dat we tegelijkertijd ook niet etnisch profileren tegen kunnen gaan, maar daar zit de kern van het probleem niet denk ik, en is ook niet waar de focus zou moeten liggen qua oplossing.
Ik heb een aantal jaar de situatie in Nederland niet zo gevolgd omdat ik er toch niet meer woon (en ook niet van plan terug te gaan), maar sinds ik er een beetje naar aan het kijken ben sinds vorige week ben ik wel enigszins geschrokken.
Aan de andere kant ... toen in Eindhoven een azc werd geopend rond 2014 was het toch ook goed raak met de tokkies (sommige Facebook comments waren echt te erg voor woorden), en uiteindelijk zelfs iemand de boel in de hens gezet. Ook de commentaarsectie op het Eindhovens dagblad was men continue aan het jammeren over de Moslims en "linkse partijen" of het nu iets te maken had met het verhaal of niet. Ik heb nog wel een tijdlang geprobeerd om daar constructief mee in gesprek te gaan, maar toch vrij snel opgegeven.
Zie ook mijn verhaalt hier trouwens.
In het kort, ik denk dat het al een lange tijd langzaam deze kant op aan het gaan is; een beetje sinds Wilders in de schijnwerpers kwam (of wellicht al daarvoor) en met de oprichting van "alternatieve" media is het alleen maar erger geworden. Zie ook mijn verhaaltje hier voor een (gedeeltelijke) reden.
Het is nog een tijd voor de verkiezingen, maar de peilingen zien er niet bijzonder rooskleurig uit.
Ik weet niet precies wat we hier aan kunnen doen ... maar ik ben bang dat dit op den duur voor hele serieuze problemen gaat zorgen als het niet ingeperkt wordt.
To the first point, the current plan appears to have it be mainly automated, but still give administrators some control over it so it does not become a mess. Though nothing has been said about it, I would not be surprised if moderators/heavy users of ~music had influence over witch subgroups were created.
When something is posted to a group that should be posted to a subgroup, it will presumably be removed with a message saying go post it in ~music.rap.kanye.
As far as redundancy goes, ~s discourages crossposts for this reason. If it is a good enough post about kanye's music, it will bubble up naturally so crossposting is unnecessary.
I’m on Tildes. It’s open source and non-profit, maintained by donations and has privacy by default. The community is heavily moderated and, while we do have liberty, we do not venerate free speech. There’s a great focus on civility. Most of our users are also on Reddit, and Tildes creator also created Reddit’s /u/automoderator.
Image posts do not exist and we usually prefer medium to long text and videos that are dense with content. It’s not entirely formal though, and there are avenues for conversation and personal expression.
The announcing post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Extended docs and the philosophy of Tildes: https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy
Tildes' content is open for anyone to see: https://tildes.net/
We have a subreddit, r/tildes, with a permanent thread for invites and there are invites for everyone.
Feel free to ask any question!
Those are the cons. Here are the pros.
I used to recommend tildes.net as a non-profit reddit clone but after the nth leftist was banned for incivility, all that remains are neoliberals and current or former reddit powermods who want to know what it feels like to be a sub again.
And then we can have a Reddit discussion about the article bout Reddit articles. And later on we can have a discussion about that discussion, and someone can write an article about it, and then put it on Tildes.net, where only 10,000 people will (possibly) read it.
What you should keep in mind is how broad Reddit is. /r/pics has 28 million subscribers. /r/MurderedByWords has 2.6 million subscribers, and it's not a default.
Large subreddits have thousands of regular submitters, tens of thousands of occasional submitters, and millions of voters. These subreddits will filter for content that appeals to the masses, which you've referred to as mainstream. It's a natural byproduct of having so many people involved.
If you want to avoid that kind of content, you need to avoid the large subreddits. It's in the smaller subreddits that Reddit really shines, and it's in the smaller subreddits where genuine discussions really flourish. (Although even some larger subreddits like AskReddit can host some really interesting discussions, which is only possible thanks to the heirarchical comment system. I keep mentioning this system, because I really think it's what sets Reddit apart from any other social media website.)
And if you're still not happy, check out Tildes. It was designed to address some of your criticisms.
https://tildes.net is nice and made by an ex reddit admin (Deimorz). But it's invite only at the moment, so the community is small and it's kinda lacking in content.
> Tildes is an open-source, Canadian non-profit link aggregator, focused on quality content, civility, community, and privacy. It aims to turn reddit's popular but low-quality ranking model upside-down, and focus on features that the users want, not the owners.
anytime, man.
PM'd you a tildes invite if you want one. it's like a smaller, more friendly (run by a Canadian, among other things) version of reddit. or, it's like if the "be nice, or else" moderation in this sub were applied across the rest of reddit.
you could definitely post an "I'm getting divorced and can't afford a lawyer, halp?" type question to ~life and you'd get some good advice beyond what I mentioned. there's also a monthly how are you doing? mental health support and discussion thread if you're ever feeling alone and just want to talk to someone who isn't an asshole.
damn good question...I have no idea but I asked on Tildes
I'll PM you a Tildes invite if you want to participate there
You may be interested in this article from The Atlantic.
Edit: Discussion on Tildes regarding this piece, and /r/academia.
Theres a decent discussion of this article over on tildes if anyone os interested
I'm happy to provide any invite codes to folks that would like one.
> but I hate how downright rude people can get to the people who aren't on their "team."
I'm almost convinced that this is a Reddit problem. Some of it has to do with function (like upvote/downvote which is misused). Basically, if there are assholes on Reddit, then it is Reddit's fault for not addressing it when Reddit was being established.
The admin, who created AutoModerator, no longer works for Reddit and has created Tildes. In juxtaposition to Reddit, there are no downvotes and only the ability to upvote. Also, and more importantly, there are no assholes at all. Rude people are given a few warnings and if they don't change their ways, then they are banned.
CGPGrey's video, where we was talking about awesome it was. I figured, damn, clearly he must be on to something. And he was right! Although I prefer to segment the casual, political stuff with my more serious university and computer science studies, and you can do that with Reddit really easily. You can even mostly avoid the trolls if you what subs to avoid.
By the way, if you really like these kinds of discussion like sites, I'd suggest tildes.net as another place that might, or might not, peak your interest. It's an invite only alpha at the moment, but if you like what you see, just let me know and I can set you up with an account.
>There's no way to bump on reddit
I'm interested as to whether you think this would be a good feature request for Reddit as a whole.
Tildes (a new site by former reddit devs) has a feature like this where new activity in a thread moves it up the list. One of the intended benefits of such a system is to reduce the number of duplicate posts on a particular topic.
I have 5 invites to tildes to give out, which I'm probably going to hold onto for a bit longer, but I'm wondering if there is any interest here? It's still in early, early alpha.
I asked this same exact question a while ago over on Tildes. In the end I think I still prefer Unbound over DoH right now. My main reason for maybe wanting to use DoH is that it will prevent my ISP from seeing my DNS queries (SNI is still an issue though, and this allows your ISP to see a majority, if not all, of the websites you visit). But now Cloudflare will see all my queries, and my assumption is when their servers do the recursion, those queries aren't encrypted at all. Plus, there is no way right not to verify what they are even doing with my queries. So when it came down to it, the question was who do I want being able to see my DNS queries. My ISP, or Cloudflare? I didn't want to add a new party to the equation so I just stuck with my ISP (Unbound) for now.
If ~ gets extremely active posters like reddit (i.e. gallowboob), it might be hard to find a jury that has not interacted with them or received a bias secondhand (though I rarely visit the defaults here on reddit, I still see people ranting about gallowboob occasionally, so for someone who doesn't visit the defaults, their only impression of them might be a bad one).
Plus, ~ is meant to foster discussions. Taking 10 minutes might only be enough to identify low-effort trolls. People who consistently argue in bad faith and write walls of text are much harder to identify.
Edit: slightly related, it seems the first ban for a troll has been handed out.
I think this is a big point in the difference of intent. In what I assume is the same thread, I announced myself a transphobe and asked a trans man, in full sincerity, to change my mind. We had a great discussion.
The obvious difference here is that I'm not an asshole.
https://tildes.net is one option. Was started by a former reddit developer.
Currently viewable by the public, but posting/commenting is by invite only to deliberately limit how fast the site grows. Be sure to peruse the docs describing the philosophy of the site.
Take a look at https://tildes.net/, /r/tildes here on reddit. Read more about it here. Created by a former reddit admin (Deimorz, who also made automoderator). It's currently viewable by anyone but you need an invite to create an account. There's a thread in the subreddit mentioned above for making invite requests, or you could PM me and I'll send you one.
Oh don’t claim it’s perfect, but it keeps the obvious stuff under control, and especially allows pretty fast removal of bot posts, unlike some other subs...
Yes I think it’s clear that Reddit currently prioritises page views over quality of content, and that’s how you end up like ebaumsworld. All it would take is enough people understanding the scale of the problem here and a similar site (say like https://tildes.net) with the promise of better management of spam and people would start drifting away...
Yeah it seems like activity on the site has dropped quite a bit. I did notice another infamous powernod in that thread too though, N8theGr8
https://tildes.net/~tildes/3sd/is_there_a_space_for_the_extremes_of_alt_right_on_tildes#comment-142y
Tildes has weekly threads for covid updates/discussion that have a very good signal:noise ratio.
PM me if you want a Tildes invite (open offer to anyone in this sub)
To everyone not liking the quality of discussions, come join us on https://tildes.net/. It’s a website created by Deimos, who used to be a reddit admin or mod (can’t remember which). Take a look at site philosophy, and see if you like it. It is currently invite only, so pm me if you want an invite.
I was dealing with some conflicts about this for quite some time. I made a thread on tildes to discuss about separating the art from the artists and got good replies.
I am now back listening to Vektor, Inquisition and Mgla. I just don't buy or support their stuff.
We teach and learn about Kant and he was ultra racist...
I don't discuss these things on reddit because users here have a holier than thou black and white attitude about everything. Tildes is way better for serious discussion.
The coronapocalypse has definitely caused an increase in number of stories posted...
Some statistics here, though I don't think it covers the most recent uptick. Activity is flat-ish, but it certainly doesn't feel like a ghost town (200-300 topics / week). And growth is not an explicit goal, Tildes isn't VC-backed so there's no outside expectation of a hockey-stick growth curve.
A tabletop subgroup was recently added, so hopefully there will be even more RPG talk in the future.
edit:
Sent you an invite in PM in case you need one. Just ignore it if you're already a member.
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
How about tildes.net?
It has no privacy group at the moment and also, I believe you have to ask for an invite.
Ask for an invite to tildes here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tildes/comments/aqvklb/official_invite_requests_round_10/
As I noted elsewhere, this works in /r/languagelearning, and it incentivises participation that'd not happen in posts otherwise.
I also run a biweekly recurring thread over at Tildes on ~books, where we share what books we're reading currently. I've observed that people would share things they don't in stand-alone topics (jargon for posts over on Tildes) under ~books. It's helped grow the community in that group and people read books they encountered there and come back to discuss. So overall, it's been a positive, nice thing.
We indeed don't have stickying on Tildes (yet), but the thread still gets regular contributions, so maybe stickying is not that important. But it's nice that the OP has opened it up for discussion before acting upon it. We can discuss and decide on something we like, and the OP takes the incentive to test the things out.
As others have already said, an equivalent to the 'free' for the Awesome would be wise. However, using a dollar $ symbol should be avoided to cater to your international users. Use a pic/emoji of money instead, or a gold coin... I'm sure everyone recognizes pictures of credit cards and understand what that means. Something glaringly obvious to everyone except to the denizens of deepest Amazon.
'Slight' is too ambiguous, especially if you can allow the user to set the fetch frequency. Also, moving 'delayed' and 'increased' to the front puts the emphasis on those words and might serve to 'sell' the Awesome option harder: "Delayed notifications (variable)", "Increased battery usage (minor)"
I dislike recurring charges that are too frequent - monthly I avoid, yearly I'm good, lifetime I'm all over that. Here you outline the current plan options. I think $20 for lifetime is too cheap. I suggest you expand it a bit further:
99c/mo
$9.99/yr
$29.99 5 years (+ special flair)
$39.99 10 years (+ special flair + perks)
$99.99 Lifetime (+ special flair + perks + Trump's personal cell number + invite to Kim Jong Un's private resort)
The more expensive / long lasting tiers should also include a free copy plus upgrade/account linking for any variants you might release in the future that handle other sites, like Tildes.
Tildes is an open-source, Canadian non-profit link aggregator, focused on quality content, civility, community, and privacy. It aims to turn reddit's popular but low-quality ranking model upside-down, and focus on features that the users want, not the owners.
I believe that there are different threads for different purposes. There are threads for discussion, there are threads for support, there are threads for celebration, et cetera.
I think there will be plenty of other threads discussing Trump's politics, and there is no harm in allowing supporters to have one thread for celebration. I think about it kind of like this would you go into a thread celebrating the Astros winning the world series and say: "Thats great and all, but I really think the Dodgers should have won." There is a different place for that.
From the time you put tildes.net on here, it has risen to over 1000 registered users and an alexa rank of 840,000 worldwide and 90,000 in the USA. The site is quite active now. u/18andover, could this be updated please?
It's only a violation once mods complain here en masse, or when the media takes note.
Same thing was discussed over on Tildes today.
Tildes, probably.
Was made by a lot of the original Reddit users a few years back, I imagine the interest for alternatives will only grow. So long as it doesn't turn into another Voat situation.
Pixlarna blir mer utsmetade/suddiga och runda och dessutom blir gradienter till synes mer högupplösta genom analog interpolering, så det är inte bara blaj.
Då pixlarna på en platt skärm (oavsett teknologi) är sig själva nog och perfekt utmejslade, med t.o.m. en del svart glapp mellan pixlarna, försvinner sådana effekter.
På en platt skärm är dessutom rött, grönt och blått perfekt uppdelade på sub-pixlar, vilket också gör att bilder ser mer skärpta ut än på en CRT. Lyser enbart fullt rött exempelvis, så är ju grönt och blått helt släckta (alltså svarta, men utrymmet tas likväl upp för dem). I normalfallet är det ju mer mixade färger och då märks det inte lika mycket.
Detta kan ge tips om hur du kan simulera CRT-look: https://tildes.net/\~games/xdg/emulate\_a\_crt\_screen\_with\_reshade\_for\_your\_pixel\_based\_games
Closest thing I know of is/was Voat, but uh... I'd rather not.
Tildes looks to be a young site, but promising. Reminds me of very early days of Reddit, with a bit of a Hacker News feel.
You know, I kind of feel like how many Conservatives must have felt around 2007/2008 with the rise of Sarah Palin and Tea Party, when the unhinged craziness of the fringes on the right started spilling over in to the mainstream. There was a long build-up to this, but this was probably the watershed moment. Objecting to a new health care system is perfectly fine and even required for a healthy democracy. Defacing Obama as Hitler over it is nasty, mean-spirited, and horrible. Fighting racism is great, but too many things I see now are just as nasty, mean-spirited, and horrible.
A while ago I wrote a comment else where that a lot of the craziness problems on the right are due to a lack of empathy. I think that if you swap out a few key terms a lot of it can apply to the "woke left", too. This is not a problem on the left or on the right. For every "woke" idiot you have a "shoot communist BLM protesters" idiots. I increasingly feel society as a whole is just breaking down, this isn't a left vs. right problem; for my part I think this is a media problem. "The news" is biased towards both rare and negative events, giving a very skewed perception of reality, and the internet only made that worse. These are problems that have been building for a while.
On the whole, I feel like framing this as a left vs. right issue is worse than harmful and actively contributing to the problem – it only feeds in to the cycle of anger. The article didn't do this, but from the comments on the article (as well as your comment) it's plenty clear that quite a few of its readers do.
https://tildes.net/ might be your best bet in terms of a community/website that is curated towards open civil discussion.
Tildes was created by /u/ Deimorz, a former Reddit developer, who is also the author of AutoModerator.
The community there is small and mostly occupied by software engineering/IT people, but they are trying to expand. The trouble has been trying to find communities that would mesh well with the philosophy of the website.
Generally speaking, Tildes is geared towards thoughtful, open, civil discussion. In terms of political content on Reddit, this subreddit is probably the most in line with that Tildes philosophy.
That said, Deimorz has been somewhat resistant to adding a politics category for post submissions. As of right now, political content goes in the "miscellaneous" category.
To set up a 'sister' community on Tildes would potentially require contacting Deimorz and sorting out a category for moderate political discussion as well as figuring out how such category would be moderated/administrated.
All of this said, it might require some negotiation, but it could provide a platform that allows this subreddit to continue doing its thing.
People will be faced with the connundrum of using an alternative, say the technologically superior Tildes.net and having far fewer people to interact with, or just getting over their hangups with the changes in Reddit and making do with it's new form.
The last time there was a mainstream exodus from Reddit was when all that shit happened with Ellen Pao (I literally can't remember what the drama was there any more?) and people left for 1 or 2 months then came back because there just isn't the community elsewhere.
If Reddit's going to lose users, it'll be to Facebook. Facebook just launched reddit-style multi-level commenting in groups which to me signfies that they see the Reddit market as one worth poaching. But IDK about you, most people who like old reddit aren't probably going to see that as a good alternative. You can see why Reddit isn't worried about losing them.
I also hate the reddit redesign but for different reasons mainly steming from them clearly degrading site functionality to make room for more ad space. Reddit is slowly dying and this subreddit is the only one I make posts to anymore. I have been moving away from reddit an to other communites such as https://tildes.net/ and https://lemmy.ml/
See: r/RedditAlternatives
Many of the more active alternatives are (very) right wing, so doing your homework on picking the right one will pay off.
You may like https://tildes.net/
You can ask for invites on r/tildes
> make bank then take over /r/anime.
~~We should really figure out what our price is.~~
[](#schemingsaten)
> Or better yet, host /r/anime on a custom Reddit clone
Too bad tildes hasn't really taken off, I was briefly active there but would need a bigger crowd to start pushing more regular discussion.
> It is getting more likely I think that we'll see a moderately successful old reddit style aggregator/forum come up. I'd happily jump ship because every day it's more apparent that I've aged out of the demographic they want.
Truer words have never been spoken! I was playing around with Tildes for a bit. It's not quite the zoomer-free internet I hoped it'd be, but fingers crossed that it draws more users or something more successful replaces it.
Before buying zrythm, people might want to know who they're supporting. The devs have been quite pro-Trump on their social media pages. Trump support even seems to come up in their development channels, too.
If you don't care, that's your choice. But some people would like to know before they send money their way.
Totally fair.
The "mission drift" (good wording, gonna steal that) issue is tough. I like how tildes does it by essentially having sub-sub(-sub^-sub^^-sub... )reddits for endlessly fractal communities.
Admittedly I do get a bit more annoyed than most with this sort of thing.
> you have to deal with it somehow.
I'm just gonna RES filter the sub away lol. Problem solved. God I love filters.
Yes, yes there will. I'm thinking maybe Tildes or Hackernews.
Thank you for appreciating it! I appreciate you for not jumping to conclusions and calling me a based, racist, whatever.
> the Chinese are trying to kill Trump with Corona
Hadn't heart that one before; this is some Baldrick-level cunning plan.
At any rate, I have a theory about how things got to its current state; I wrote about it over here: https://tildes.net/~news/r1t/axios_president_trump_exclusive_interview_full_episode#comment-5fhs
Check out https://tildes.net
It was made by reddit’s 10th hire. It goes against the VC funding model that leads to a lot of bullshit. Hate is not tolerated as well which is nice.
I can send an invite if you would like.
If you just want a site where you and some like-minded people can communicate, you only need to coordinate a partial migration of 200 to 400 users. This is very doable, and a great example is https://tildes.net/
If you want to spread your ideas widely, the only way to succeed is to pay for astro-turfing. This isn't all that expensive, either.
If you want to organically spread your ideas to a wide audience without paying the gate-keepers, that is a much harder problem to crack.
Personally, I'm in the first category. I've found some great online communities and I'm spending more time out there than on reddit. I don't think I'll be participating with whatever big site replaces reddit. I hope someone figures out how to bring back honest discourse to the masses :(
You might want to read a bit more, before forming your opinion and judgement.
Oh god yes. I exclusively use third-party apps and made the mistake of visiting the Reddit website in a browser the other day not logged in. What an absolute usability train wreck. So many dark patterns it would make Facebook jealous. Who can use that garbage?
I hope https://tildes.net keeps gaining steam.
> Go wank in some IRC channel if you must.
Do you mean again in this particular half-hour, or just in general, all the time?
If it's the former I'm gonna need some blogspam to get there, give me a bit to find something fresh on tildes, I can do it with the new stuff.
samurai-edit: Found it, I'm good now - https://tildes.net/~tech/s1y/please_dont_say_just_hello_in_chat#comment-5n3y
You could have a look at tildes.net, they have a mail you can write to in order to get a invitation. They seem to have the highest "average content quality" i ever saw in a open source social media platform.
> ECS, where the FireSystem (for instance) would keep an eye on entities with the IsFlammable component
Yes, though every (or, at least, almost every) entity should be flammable. (In fact, it makes the most sense to make every entity flammable. Just give them a flammability of 0 if you don't want them to catch fire.)
This is part of the reason why I prefer OOP (only with one-level inheritance) to ECS; it distinguishes nicely that behaviour which is unique to an object type and that which is common to all object types. (Though I'm also working on another system...)
What /u/GaryARefuge said, I agree with you both. That's why I have an account on Tildes. It was created by a previous reddit admin and is supported by donations. Let me know if you want an invite.
>the removal of about:config in stable
This is a tricky one. about:config on new Android Firefox is not the same thing as it is on desktop Firefox. The architecture of the new browser means it can only control Geckoview (the web content engine), not the UI (i.e. the bit you interact with). So a lot of the settings you're used to seeing in there are completely irrelevant, and won't do anything.
The last I saw on it (it was somewhere on https://tildes.net/~tech), they're [internally] discussing whether there's a better way to handle the problem.
But if you really need it, Firefox Beta has it enabled.
It's open to view: https://tildes.net/
Short description: reddit with no ads, driven by donations, where you're expected to have intelligent, tolerant conversation. Its goal is to be user moderated, but I'm not sure how far along that is at this point.
At the bottom of the front page is a link called "Docs." Read that for much more information.
The Mozilla Open-Source Project (the "Project"). Just like the Linux Kernel is a project, or LLVM is a project. The Mozilla Foundation ("MoFo") - the non-profit foundation. The Mozilla Corporation ("MoCo") - the legal entity that receives money from the search deal and supplies most of the resources for running and developing the project.
The layoffs happened at the Corporation.
I know, but sometimes there are better posts as well. On /r/WatchRedditDie, those posts are sometimes stickied.
/r/reclassified just lists banned and quarantined subreddits, and you can see that a lot of subreddits are banned in error (it's suspected that the admins are using a bot to find ban evasion subs based on their userbases, but it's catching way more subs than it should). (eg. [/r/Old_Europe and /r/PaleoEuropean](/r/reclassified/comments/hkby5g/rold_europe_and_rpaleoeuropean_banned/), archaeology subs about Old Europe, were both banned)
/r/RedditAlternatives is just about reddit alternatives, and not all of them are meant to be free speech havens. https://tildes.net is a good example of a site listed on there that isn't a "free speech site".
I found links in your comment that were not hyperlinked:
I did the honors for you.
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That site looks good. I found bellingcat.com from viewing tildes.net. You have to have a referral in order to join though, which sucks, but I guess it's necessary, in a way? Just my two cents.
They are actually moving to Saidit - not that it's much better, last time I checked it out there was shit from the DailyStormer on the front page - with some subreddits (e.g., /r/Ask_Radical_Feminists) pointing their users towards Spinster, a fork of Gab.
Fuck I was hoping this move would prompt a long overdue upgrade to something better than reddit.
What are the other options?
https://tildes.net ? (not suited to shitposting)
Or ? ? ?
The obvious answer would be to start supporting inline images/videos, and allow memes... but I don't think that would be a particularly good idea given the focus of the site being on quality discussion. ;)
Otherwise, I unfortunately don't think there is an easy answer to that question... although there are some ideas that have been floating around. E.g. Allowing inline images for certain groups, like ~creative. Allowing the platform to be used for blogging. Etc...
My complaint is specifically about the JavaScript usage. You can do this perfectly fine on the server-side and add JS on top for convenience features. In fact, there's at least one Reddit imitation doing this: https://tildes.net/
Yeah, that site is really good. But it focuses on discussion rather than memes, like the Good Old reddit, it might not be the right choice for things like memes etc. But ~comp is pretty good, there were even pretty good programming challenges there once.
And it has dark mode - see dropdown at the bottom
I’ve been keeping an eye on tildes.net, giving it a look every few weeks, but here’s their thread on this. I’ve been rolling my eyes at that dub guy’s posts on the politics section there. I should’ve known.
I do agree that it’s unlikely that this sub will go anywhere, on the other hand, I hope that all the subs I browse get banned so that I don’t feel like I need to use this terrible site to keep up with the world, and then find myself lurking around, reading arguments I don’t give a shit about.
Mastodon, pleroma etc are cool ideas but those status-based, micro-post sites never made much sense to me. Maybe the last time I enjoyed using the Internet was when I was a member of a smallish forum, quitting about 10 years ago.
> I was not aware of Tildes. It looks like this is the actual community site - looks to be a good place for a first impression.
Reading through their thread on Alexis Ohanian's resignation, my impression is that this sub wouldn't be welcome there. They're the sort that think reddit doesn't hunt enough witches.
The site's code is APGL3 though, so could be viable for the mods to host a replacement site.
Thank you for your perspective! Some thoughts:
> Primarily it's a social problem, not a technical one, so technical solutions shouldn't be thought to solve the problem.
I think our civilization contains examples of technical solutions to social problems. :) The attempts we've had at communism, for example, were different technical approaches (rules on which society runs) compared to capitalism. The different rules had different outcomes.
In all cases, the nature of people is fundamentally similar; the outcomes are much different after applying some rules. There are rules that organize us for the better, others for the worse, with not just superficial but decisive differences in outcomes.
> Posters shouldn't post more than 2-3 times a day.
That's an interesting limitation, however it motivates the creation of alternate accounts.
I think 2, 3, 4 are all good points.
> I think tildes has made a lot of interesting decisions in this space.
Interesting. I was not aware of Tildes. It looks like this is the actual community site - looks to be a good place for a first impression.
I like https://tildes.net/.
The problem with any of these, however, is the smaller community. The Tildes crowd is friendly, welcoming, and engages respectfully, but there aren't enough people to help you find "like minds."
Sure if you care about general subjects like movies, you can get a good conversation going. But if you're into a more narrow subject, such as quilting or medieval history, you'll find just a handful of folks to talk with. That isn't necessarily a bad thing... but it's different.
Not sure why exactly you think so. This shows an average of site activity within the groups, and the site specifically aims for higher-quality discussion so it's likely going to be easy to find instances of people trying to clarify communication when there's good-faith disagreement. If it doesn't tickle your fancy though, no biggie.
You remind of the guy who solved a graph theory problem with sed.
You might be interested in Tildes.
Be sure to read the site's documentation:
Let me know if you want an invite, or just email the address mentioned in the docs
A former employee leaked a number of cutscenes and Naughty Dog themselves came out and said "please stop spoilering everyone we're so disappointed"
And that's about it. If you want the leaks in a place you'll find 'em here
I've been loving https://tildes.net/ lately. It's developed and run by a former reddit admin. It's lightweight and blazing fast. Kinda like old reddit but with incremental updates based on community feedback.
Here's the comment if anyone actually dares to tackle the bug. Note that this is in mobile and portrait mode only.
Any site whose defining feature is a lack of moderation will draw a community and content that are dominated by the type of content that is moderated elsewhere.
Give how incredibly (excessively, I would say) lax reddit's moderation is, that means that any community forked out from here on the promise of lacking even that is guaranteed to be predominantly racists, bigots, and pedophiles.
But to answer your question, yes! I am an enthusiastic fan of tildes.
Close, but unfortunately someone beat me to Deimos on here so I've got this one.
I can give invites to anyone that's interested though - please read the announcement blog post first for some general info about the site's goals/values, and then either email the address in that post or send me a message on Reddit and I'll give you a link to register.
Tildes is much more privacy-focused than reddit - I keep very little data, and try to delete as much as I can after 30 days (for example, all of a user's individual votes are deleted after 30 days), so it's probably a good fit overall for a lot of /r/privacy users.
If you don't like the recurring topics and don't want to see them, you don't need to ignore all of them individually. You can just filter out the recurring topic tag in your topic filter if you don't want to see the recurring topics.
> I'm not sure that is in fact a badge of quality
To be clear, I am sure that this is not a badge of quality. If you're looking for high quality content: https://lobste.rs or https://tildes.net. Reddit is a massive site; there's half a million people here, and the Fluff Principle is in effect. It is the nature of Reddit to not be a particularly great place for high quality information, or rather, for high quality information to not naturally rise to the top of a subreddit. That is how reddit functions, and is intended.
Come on over to Tildes. No tolerance for nazis or other idiots, non-profit with no advertising (so it won't make stupid changes like this one to make advertisers happy), run by the former reddit admin that built AutoModerator. It's not big yet, but feels like reddit did about 10 years ago.
More info and an email address to request an invite in the announcement post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Or post in the invite thread in /r/tildes and you should get an invite in a day or so: https://redd.it/dlk054