I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I'm going to try giving up internet comment sections for a while to try and see if I can live without them. I have wasted far too much time on Reddit, Hacker News, and recently Lemmy (which I tried to use as a Reddit replacement).
The articles themselves would be nice to keep around, I haven't found enough RSS feeds to make my feed reader app populated enough. I will probably make a userscript to disable comments here, use Kagi search to minimize the amount of Reddit in my search queries, and overall use a solution like Screen Time to try to limit use of other sites I spend way too much time on.
I know a lot of users are going to Lemmy or Kbin, both of which are on the Fediverse.
Same. I'm actually attempting to make my own, but in similar motivation from your comment, i'm trying to make mine reduce engagement. I want something that explores the positives of social/link-aggs/etc, but doesn't try to keep engagement high.
Something that lets you check it once a day and not feel like you missed anything. etcetc
I think there were good things about Reddit but it is scary how deeply Reddit (and frankly, HN) have driven muscle memory and addictive doomscroll behavior. I'd love to see more people explore features which attempt to extract user value from these platforms but minimize addictive features.
Lots of communities on Reddit have started the process of migrating to different platforms. The federated alternatives like Lemmy have had recent success although I question the complexity of it all in terms of getting mass adoption.
Most of the alternatives seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.
I've been building a platform called Sociables which is intentionally not just another Reddit clone. We are trying to create an all-in-one place for people to create communities first and foremost and not just posts.
Looked at this last night briefly before going to bed and said I'd check it again today but then got distracted by the whole twitter fiasco.
This looks awesome dude way to go :D
I forgot the link was in this thread (didn't bookmark it). It was a real pain trying to find it via google or startpage (until I remembered what thread I was reading last night) I remembered "sociable" but searches for "sociable social media platform" and even "sociable site:news.ycombinator.com" yielded zilch.
Long story short I'd suggest working on your SEO just a little you're competing with "sociable.co". But design+concept are 10/10 as far as I'm concerned, god speed o7
I think Lemmy and Kbin has the most potential due to their federated nature. I have found several vibrant communities with interesting and thoughtful discussions across many instances there. Too bad some of the largest instances started doing these de-federation shenanigans recently. I'm on my own personal instance so I'm not affected so far, but it does concerns me. Imagine if Gmail de-federate from Yahoo mail so users of both sites can't talk to each other (but can talk to the rest of the internet). This is absurd and has the potential to kill the fediverse if the practice is unchecked. There has to be a way to moderate discussion without abusing de-federation.
I’ve been trying very hard not to go anywhere. Though… hi, here I am. I’ve set myself a 15 minute a day limit for news.ycombinator.com on my phone, doesn’t apply to my laptop but I’m less concerned about that.
Lemmy has scratched the itch for me. Obviously not as big or thorough as Reddit, but I’ve found a lot of the niches I used to frequent on Reddit, and they’re fairly active.
Trying kbin and lemmy. Both are compatible with each other through activitypub federation (aka fediverse), so choose an instance of either and browse away.
It's still very quiet compared to what reddit was. Not yet enough users to support the niche communities which made reddit special (IMO), but I'm trying to contribute anyways, hopefully building it up a bit.
Losing reddit is sad, the feeling to me is a bit similar to when we lost supernova, then what.cd. An internet jewel that will never be the same again.
Since the Apollo dev broke the news, I'm trying out Lemmy and it's an interesting alternative. Definitely too new to say what will happen to it, but looks promising.
It is not, and doesn't even try to be, a Reddit replacement, but https://tildes.net has impressed me with its quality of discussion. More akin to HN, but with a subreddit-like system to facilitate a wider range of topics than is usually found here.
Oh I wish. People struggling with reddit replacements should try making new friend groups in 2023. Lot more energy for a lot more disappointing results.
Perhaps Github? It is not social media as such, but technically it could be used as such. A kind of "intent hacking". A repo = subreddit. Issues = posts with comments. Regardless, I think I will spend more time there, since I have some small personal projects in mind.
So far HN and Tildes furfilled most of my browsing. Have a KBin account I keep tabs on and I'm helping to fund Non.io (not really ready yet, but I'm happy gambling on the long game).
(Btw, I have Tildes invites for anyone who still sees this comment. Feel free to reply to ask for one).
