Ask HN: Where have Reddit communities migrated to?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735532

by zokier • 3 years ago

27 17 3 years ago

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Now that the dust has settled from the Reddit debacle, I find myself wondering what is the outcome, where do I find communities now? Did Lemmy gain traction like some hoped, or did stuff move to Discord like others feared? Or are people still sticking with Reddit despite its misgivings?

Has anyone put out a resource cataloguing all the different subreddits that have found new homes?

In case someone is out of the loop, Reddit had some API policy changes in the works which sparked protests and it went rapidly downhill from there. Few links for the curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36210805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36359259

p-e-w• 3 years ago

They haven't. There is https://redditmigration.com which lists some attempts to create alternative communities in the Fediverse, but few of those have gained any traction. Most Reddit communities are still where they were before – on Reddit.

And considering that the main purpose of Lemmy and Mastodon in practice appears to be for their creators and their acolytes to police their communities' political compliance, I'd say that is probably the lesser evil.

macintosh-hd• 3 years ago

Is this about the Facebook thing? Because if so they’re 100% planning to start bolting on proprietary extensions like Microsoft did with IE and Git. It’s best to burn that bridge while they ask for inches before they start taking miles.

Not even a huge fan of Mastodon really, but lemmy is decent.

jedisct1• 3 years ago

The Zig subreddit migrated to a dedicated discussion board https://ziggit.dev

randomluck040• 3 years ago

Jellyfin did so as well, they have transitioned to their own forums, too.

rewmie2• 3 years ago

Lemmy received a big influx of new users once Reddit's CEO started acting out

Lemmy, being a part of the fediverse, has a bunch of servers where we can access Lemmy communities. Here's a starting point.

https://lemmy.world/

There's also the possibility of self-hosting Lemmy nodes.

jeffybefffy5192• 3 years ago

Using @ as the delimiter between subreddit and host seems confusing to be and i bet is a thing that slows user adoption due to confusing with email.

rewmie2• 3 years ago

Using @ as the delimiter between subreddit and host seems confusing to be (...)

It's community@instance, and the "@instance" suffix is only required if you're accessing a community hosted on a separate instance.

It sounds like you're just complaining about stuff not being familiar or an exact clone of Reddit.

kingkongjaffa• 3 years ago

I'm having a good time on https://tildes.net/

Mostly because it has few users, and those users tend to write for the benefit of others rather than the benefit of themselves.

Since there is no visible karma/upvote score there's less motivation to post low-effort highly agreeable content. It's also nice being so small that I notice the same usernames over and over on the same topic and get to know people. Most comments are made in good faith I think.

reesul• 3 years ago

I was loosely active in tildes a few years back but dropped it since I got too busy / found myself just going to Reddit for mindless content.

Sounds like tildes is still kicking, then? I’m curious if it’s grown or shrunk in that time. There was quite a few highly active users that were posting good content, but I recall thinking the site was a bit short of “critical mass” for many of the communities.

Maybe I’ll go back and check it out. Thanks for the reminder that tildes is still around!

dubmITguy• 3 years ago

Tildes looks interesting but it says "by invite only" from a current member to create account. Any chance you could throw an invite my way? Lol

rishikeshs• 3 years ago

Hey i have an invite. Msg me

hcks• 3 years ago

Literally nothing happened and Reddit is back to business as usual

dpeck• 3 years ago

Here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36731320

cianuro_• 3 years ago

I usually hang in https://programming.dev/ now. Reddit is not worth it for me anymore.

I_am_tiberius• 3 years ago

Someone made this site (https://sub.rehab), which references alternatives to the subreddits you're interested in.

qjx• 3 years ago

personally i've not done the lemmy/federated route. i just find small "traditional" forums for the specific topics. i find these smaller communities resemble the old days of reddit. none of the mascot avatar/NFT/pixel awards nonsense

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