Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I’m curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there’s no hate-speech (that I’m aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let’s hear your suggestions! Thank you!

  • Quetzlcoatl@sh.itjust.works
    462·
    6 months ago

    Never heard of phuks. Went there and immediately the first thing I came across was hate speech. Assuming its not open source?

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      27·
      6 months ago

      Looks like it’s open source, but very dead

      • Sorting by new gets around 1-3 posts a day, site wide

      • the top post of all time was 6 years ago and it was discussing the shut down of Voat

      So while they might not have recent hate speech, it seems like that’s the community that started there. Sort by top all to see the context

          • Shyfer@ttrpg.network
            3·
            6 months ago

            It definitely isn’t enough to feed the constant content addiction I had with Reddit, but I’ve found that kind of a good thing lol. I’ve started reading books and comics on my phone, getting out of bed faster, working on other projects, etc. It’s like using a less toxic version to wean off, like using vapes or patches to get off cigarettes.

              • Shyfer@ttrpg.network
                2·
                6 months ago

                That’s the one thing, I really want more niche communities. Not sure if we just need more people or community discovery needs to be easier. I’d like to see more with the league of legends community and Meet Your Maker community, and I’m sure other people have niche video games or other small hobby communities they’d like to see take off more.

    • sinewyshadow@lemmy.mlOP
      48·
      6 months ago

      Aw, no! Phuks has fallen to hate speech? I’ll have to investigate this. I investigated, and didn’t find any hate speech. Just some dumb jokes. I’m talking they have posts with the N word right on the front page. So disgusting.

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
      6·
      6 months ago

      I think they mean for the parts of the day where we aren’t all angry dads. You know, bedtime and the such…

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    34·
    6 months ago

    MetaFilter. It’s a very old school general interest indexer/forum. It’s been around since 1999, has a lot of well known professionals on it, requires a small fee to make an account, they pay their moderation team a living wage because it is a job, and has recently transitioned to official non-profit organization status.

    Quality links, quality discussion, (although discussions are chronological, not threaded or voted on, first post gets top spot) plus some goofy stuff and random quality art thrown in. Kind of general interest, but because of the format, some posts can have absolutely mind-bending numbers of links and in-depth information. Some users go all out in making insanely in depth posts that end up generating significant discussion. As I said, you have a lot of professionals on there, and unlike say, HackerNews, it’s professionals of all stripes: scientists, programmers, lawyers, federal workers, economists, writers, musicians and so on.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    221·
    6 months ago

    Personally I would filter and only look at platforms that are open source and Fediverse/ActivityPub compatible. Otherwise it will suffer from similar issues as the other alternatives (centralization, lack of community/momentum, takeovers).

    As long as the platform federates nicely then it really comes down to personal preference. The content and communities can grow independently :)

    The platforms that come to mind for that are Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and Sublinks. I’m probably missing some other good ones

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      6 months ago

      just in case anyone here is confused … mbin (and its ancestor kbin, which is still running) work just fine with lemmy as they federate with each other. Upshot being that choosing between mbin/kbin and lemmy as an alternative to reddit is not exclusive … choosing one is choosing both … is choosing the fediverse.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        191·
        6 months ago

        *bin also has an advantage of integrating microblog as well, though you can’t change URLs in link posts

        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          Yep, completely unique aspect of the platform. Some however do find it too complex or confusing, which I say just reassure anyone that that’s not uncommon if you do.

          • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
            2·
            6 months ago

            yes, though mbin doesn’t have an all content view, so you’d need to switch to the microblog-only view to see these. kbin has much less development going on but currently has an all content view that combines threads and posts.

        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          6 months ago

          Hard to recommend one over the other, especially as I’m not following things closely. mbin is a fork and seems well maintained at the moment while the lead dev and founder of kbin seems to be struggling to keep working on kbin. Things could change though.

          • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
            3·
            6 months ago

            they also overhauled the threads view filtering, though the all content and new comments highlighting features are still missing

  • tanakian@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    6 months ago

    let me list two not federated options.

    but both are self hosted.

    • lobsters. one active instance is lobste.rs but i know of https://սարեան.ցանցառներ.հայ

    • if you use gemini protocol, you probably know about it: bubble is a reddit like software. i know about two deployments, the original, by the author is at gemini://bbs.geminispace.org

    users also can have their blog feeds on it.

    • Shyfer@ttrpg.network
      2·
      6 months ago

      I remember hearing about that one as I was leaving Reddit. I was between that and Tildes, but ended up settling on Lemmy and Kbin. Glad to hear they’re still surviving.