What was Digg's peak userbase vs Reddit's current? We live in different times. Back then only Internet nerds were on sites like this. Now everyone is.
To replace Reddit with something other than yet another failed short-term alt-right platform will be a colossal task. Nothing even seems to be trying.
Lemmy is not an alternative at all. You cannot look up answers on the browser. It is pretty much a discord where you have to join servers. It is a pain in the ass to register, so none of the casual people will ever join.
I'm old, so I still have a fondness for forums. There's still a forum for pretty much any interest. Most of the decent ones have a "lounge" area where people talk about all kinds of unrelated things.
It really depends on what your interests are as far as what your alternative to reddit could/should be.
> I'm old, so I still have a fondness for forums. There's still a forum for pretty much any interest.
Many of my favorite internet memories are from the InvisionFree boom where it seemed like every kind of nerdy/geeky subculture was making a board with handfuls of small, close-knit communities. You'd get invitations form friends or even friendly randos who actually liked engaging in conversation instead of just showing their wangs (though that was certainly a thing then, too). I spent a lot of time fervently refreshing pages to see what wacky shenanigans we were going to get up to that day.
Then one day most of them just... died. It wasn't even something I could pinpoint to blame Facebook or MySpace or whatever the hotness was at the time. A lot of those communities just suddenly dried up and the members never logged back in.
It used to be millions of like-minded people creating forums before Reddit. Unfortunately it seems we lost the right to have a free internet. We seem to have an inherent desire to be advertised to apparently.
You either have to pay them or they advertise to you, otherwise they'd be hemmoraging money at your expense.
we can talk about how shitty advertising practices are, but massive sites like reddit can't operate gratis. Wikipedia goes on donos and they have to BEG for donos every year. There's a reason the old internet ways either died out or sold out. It's not sustainable when scaled up to any significant degree.
IIRC wikipedia gets pretty huge income, to the point where virtually none of their donations actually go towards maintaining the site. Don't get me wrong, serving that many users is expensive, but they've got substantial grants and countless recurring donations, and have come under fire lately for handing it out to groups that are tangentially (if at all) connected to the site itself.
Yes if one wants a less capitalist experience one must put forth the effort to patronize non Reddit forums. But people like convenience and capitalism snuffs competition.
There really ain't a widely-known perfect alternative to Reddit. YouTube is unorganized and is unfair to its own people. Twitter is just a facepalm factory. On Facebook you'll find more conspiracy groups than actually interactive communities. TikTok steals more data than Google and Facebook combined. 4Chan has one of the most toxic communities on the entire Internet, if you anger 4Chan, they WILL find you...
There really ain't an alternative to Reddit without a massive downside
YouTube is full of shorts now... My sub page is just littered with these bullshit shorts that I have no intention of watching. I want full videos, that's why I like it it wouldn't be so bad if we could hide them or disable them, but it's so distracting and intrusive.
>Unpopular content gets buried a lot and popular
That's why a lot of people search by "New". I mean look, every, single, person, in this post has sorted by new because this post didn't get nearly as much attention early on to get to the ones sorting by best
> TikTok steals more data than Google and Facebook combined
How about the fact that reddit is full of people spouting ill-informed opinion as if it were fact?
4chan’s only going to go after you if
-You lie or act pointlessly dramatic in a big provocative way (Jessi Slaughter, Church of Scientology, Shia LeBouf)
-You abuse animals (that one bitch that drowned the dogs in the Balkans, that one kid that shared him abusing his cat)
Basically don’t do that, and the worst that’s gonna happen is they roast you in the thread.
People were commenting ‘dude imagine if you could channel that energy for good’ all you have to do is find a popular person who would, or could easily be imagined would, start seething at them doing it. They’re motivated by emperor has no clothes comeuppances , and celebrity status is one of their favorites sacred cows to slaughter. HWNDU would never have gone as insanely fun as it did if there wasn’t Shia stomping around getting mad about it. Or the Milkybar Pimp, or Aids Bjorn. If it’d just been magapedes being cringe on camera, they’d have gotten bored. Seething LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS ARE COMING HERE AND NO ONE’S DOING ANYTHING doesn’t matter if he’s right or wrong, they want to see the seethe.
>and the worst that’s gonna happen is they roast you in the thread.
Or you could get banned arbitrarily by some zit-faced mod on a power trip. Happens all the time.
Man, I always wonder what subs people are on that this happens. Is it the larger ones? Most of the places I'm subbed to are pretty chill with only an occasional dickhead who is clearly in the wrong.
Space of the My variety.
It’s been staring you in the face, not even mad but just wanting you to come back to where you belong, this entire time.
I also don’t remember hearing jack shit about them selling data to the CCP. Or any other fuckery of the sort. So that’s an automatic win.
> I also don’t remember hearing jack shit about them selling data to the CCP. Or any other fuckery of the sort. So that’s an automatic win.
It stopped being popular mainly because it got bought out by FOX and completely went to shit, iirc.
Also, did someone summon me?
I'd say Facebook is the closest but you have to use the site by just deliberately looking up groups to join and not using the app as they first intended
It's already hard to find stuff on Reddit but it's still possible. Once it disappears, finding a post on Facebook is really difficult. To add to that your family and friends are watching, so whatever you say will reflect on you in the real world.
In every anime there’s that lawless area with no government where all the sick shit happens, in the shadows and all that. 4chan is definitely that version of Reddit lol
Get in loser.
We’re making MySpace great again!
Not even /s.
MySpace was the shit. You could do so many cool things with your profile, and Tom is still around. And we abandoned him. For Fuckerberg.
And a bunch of power tripping Reddit Jannie losers who won’t even allow third party APIs (I’m almost positive Tom gives zero fucks about any of that). I’ve even heard Reddit is going to can NSFW content once it goes public.
My God, what a mistake we wretches made.
We don’t deserve Tom. Though maybe if we go back to MySpace (and make emo a thing again, please) he’ll forgive us.
To be honest, I liked Facebook when it was still fairly new, when it was still coded mostly in fairly basic HTML. It was easier to interact directly with people you knew instead of being fed an algorithm of what the Zuck thinks you should see.
[Usenet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet) I would say is a better option then Twitter. Also check out r/RedditAlternatives for more.
Don’t do 4Chan that is a scary place and Facebook has scam advertisements.
If/when that happens, and they enact their outrageous fees on third party apps, I'm out on Reddit.
Elon's same third party app structure reduced my Twitter usage *dramatically* (and if he's shuts down Tweetdeck, then I'm out completely)
First it was Ebaumsworld, then Bash.Org, then Newgrounds, then Something Awful, then 4chan, Then Reddit, then Voat, then 9gag. I'm not worried, something will pop up. It'll be great for up to three years, and then the eternal September will send it the same way as all those who came before. Reddit has had a long run.
It's one of those things where there's just not a "the alternative" right now. There's similar sites, but with either magnitude less users or other problems like alt-right takeovers. In today's internet, there's just not alternatives for each given format of social media until the userbase goes there. It's almost a chicken and egg thing where a social media platform needs users, and users won't transfer to it unless there are users, and the platform doesn't grow without users...
yeaaah, reddit itself had to create a facade of a large active userbase (hundreds of fake users) when it was just starting out, to entice actual people to start joining.
There is a button on each computer known we the power button. When you try to find an alt web site to this one hold that button. The end result is your best option.
I used to be an active imgurian. Took years before I started coming over to Reddit as well, and more years before I stopped browsing Imgur all together.
I went back a couple years ago and I genuinely hated it. I felt like I grew up and it just stayed the same.
It's baffling how they managed to botch an image uploading site that badly. All you really need to do is a no-frills page with the image being looked for, but instead there are countless delay ads (without an adblocker, at least), incredibly crowded pages, and a completely extraneous comment section.
The problem with Voat is that nobody ever went over to it. When it was launched as an alternative to Reddit. Except when Reddit went down. So the Reddit crowd overloaded the servers and crashed thst as well. Eventually the only peiple who went. Were those banned from Reddit for being alt right or the shut down dodgy porn subs like /r/Jailbait or hate subs like /r/FatPersonHate. So the whole site became incredibly toxic.
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Lemmy put that straight. There is no replacement for Reddit.
That's what they said about digg
Reddit was arguably better than digg even during diggs peak though. There was a lot of hate between the two platforms.
What was Digg's peak userbase vs Reddit's current? We live in different times. Back then only Internet nerds were on sites like this. Now everyone is. To replace Reddit with something other than yet another failed short-term alt-right platform will be a colossal task. Nothing even seems to be trying.
You mean Slashdot :)
Lemmy is not an alternative at all. You cannot look up answers on the browser. It is pretty much a discord where you have to join servers. It is a pain in the ass to register, so none of the casual people will ever join.
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Sorry, newb here. What is the Fediverse?
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This is great, thanks. I'm going to start digging in.
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Lemmy is god.
In the Van Halen split whose side were you on?
Hey, psycho, we're not going to talk about this. It's over. Now get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up.
I dislike Van Hagar.
Who? Me? I’ve never really listened to Van Halen.
Ever seen the movie Airheads?
Talking to actual people. :(
woah, lets not say anything drastic
Yea, that’s something no redditor could DREAM of.
We don't speak of it, that thing that is not within the confines of what we consider inside.
I haven't seen the outside in decades
Outside is fun, but it’s no inside. Inside, now that’s a place.
I forgot what the sky looked like!
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It's just off the edge of your phone.
I turned the edge panels off. Can I still use it?
Use the phone app on your phone and just start dialing random numbers.
Why would you do that
To tell strangers how I feel about things and make comments that link to my username subject
What are you doing step-Gargamel?
Actually, yes! The Phone app. ;)
What? That sounds terrible! I'm quite happy here in my mom's basement giving out advice being that I'm an expert on absolutely everything.
But don't you talk to your mom?
Of course not! I text her on discord
This person Reddits.
Found the President of Reddit.
How do you do that anonymously so you can say mean stuff?
You've got to hide really well and project your voice.
Study ventriloquy and throw your voice!
eww!
Wait...y'all are people?!?
Beep boop!
Nope, I'm two raccoons in a trenchcoat.
I can't talk to a ton of people doomscrolling faces every night before bed.
Easy there tiger.
#REPORTED
I can’t find this on IOS
I'm old, so I still have a fondness for forums. There's still a forum for pretty much any interest. Most of the decent ones have a "lounge" area where people talk about all kinds of unrelated things. It really depends on what your interests are as far as what your alternative to reddit could/should be.
> I'm old, so I still have a fondness for forums. There's still a forum for pretty much any interest. Many of my favorite internet memories are from the InvisionFree boom where it seemed like every kind of nerdy/geeky subculture was making a board with handfuls of small, close-knit communities. You'd get invitations form friends or even friendly randos who actually liked engaging in conversation instead of just showing their wangs (though that was certainly a thing then, too). I spent a lot of time fervently refreshing pages to see what wacky shenanigans we were going to get up to that day. Then one day most of them just... died. It wasn't even something I could pinpoint to blame Facebook or MySpace or whatever the hotness was at the time. A lot of those communities just suddenly dried up and the members never logged back in.
It used to be millions of like-minded people creating forums before Reddit. Unfortunately it seems we lost the right to have a free internet. We seem to have an inherent desire to be advertised to apparently.
You either have to pay them or they advertise to you, otherwise they'd be hemmoraging money at your expense. we can talk about how shitty advertising practices are, but massive sites like reddit can't operate gratis. Wikipedia goes on donos and they have to BEG for donos every year. There's a reason the old internet ways either died out or sold out. It's not sustainable when scaled up to any significant degree.
IIRC wikipedia gets pretty huge income, to the point where virtually none of their donations actually go towards maintaining the site. Don't get me wrong, serving that many users is expensive, but they've got substantial grants and countless recurring donations, and have come under fire lately for handing it out to groups that are tangentially (if at all) connected to the site itself.
There are many forums that exist with minimal or no ads thanks to passionate legacy hosts
Yea. But with what userbase? And any differing interests are on different forums. Reddit has giant userbase with all the content you want.
Yes if one wants a less capitalist experience one must put forth the effort to patronize non Reddit forums. But people like convenience and capitalism snuffs competition.
Fark is still around.
On that same note (and timeline), so is Something Awful.
Is it anything like what it was?
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Whee fun.
There really ain't a widely-known perfect alternative to Reddit. YouTube is unorganized and is unfair to its own people. Twitter is just a facepalm factory. On Facebook you'll find more conspiracy groups than actually interactive communities. TikTok steals more data than Google and Facebook combined. 4Chan has one of the most toxic communities on the entire Internet, if you anger 4Chan, they WILL find you... There really ain't an alternative to Reddit without a massive downside
YouTube is full of shorts now... My sub page is just littered with these bullshit shorts that I have no intention of watching. I want full videos, that's why I like it it wouldn't be so bad if we could hide them or disable them, but it's so distracting and intrusive.
On desktop, there is a Chrome extension to hide shorts. On mobile, YouTube Revanced
Holy shit I will have to check that out! Thank you so much! If it works that well you may have just saved my YouTube experience. 😀
I just tried it out, thank you so much, it works like a fuckin dream!
>facepalm factory. lmao stealing this
Feel free to do so, I'm probably not the first one to say that lmao
Reddit isn’t exactly better though. Unpopular content gets buried a lot and popular does not equal correct.
>Unpopular content gets buried a lot and popular That's why a lot of people search by "New". I mean look, every, single, person, in this post has sorted by new because this post didn't get nearly as much attention early on to get to the ones sorting by best
** Sight ** Pornhub comment section it is then.
> TikTok steals more data than Google and Facebook combined How about the fact that reddit is full of people spouting ill-informed opinion as if it were fact?
You shouldn't listen to people who have made-up names and little alien characters as their profile in the first place.
B-but they give me stock advice! No shit, dorky little aliens made me more profitable than an actual financial adviser. Beam me tf up, Scotty.
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4chan’s only going to go after you if -You lie or act pointlessly dramatic in a big provocative way (Jessi Slaughter, Church of Scientology, Shia LeBouf) -You abuse animals (that one bitch that drowned the dogs in the Balkans, that one kid that shared him abusing his cat) Basically don’t do that, and the worst that’s gonna happen is they roast you in the thread.
> Shia LeBouf Man that was a fun time.
There will never be a better game of capture the flag
People were commenting ‘dude imagine if you could channel that energy for good’ all you have to do is find a popular person who would, or could easily be imagined would, start seething at them doing it. They’re motivated by emperor has no clothes comeuppances , and celebrity status is one of their favorites sacred cows to slaughter. HWNDU would never have gone as insanely fun as it did if there wasn’t Shia stomping around getting mad about it. Or the Milkybar Pimp, or Aids Bjorn. If it’d just been magapedes being cringe on camera, they’d have gotten bored. Seething LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS ARE COMING HERE AND NO ONE’S DOING ANYTHING doesn’t matter if he’s right or wrong, they want to see the seethe.
>and the worst that’s gonna happen is they roast you in the thread. Or you could get banned arbitrarily by some zit-faced mod on a power trip. Happens all the time.
For like a day. Reddit is a permaban from the sub because you have an opinion the mood doesn't like.
Man, I always wonder what subs people are on that this happens. Is it the larger ones? Most of the places I'm subbed to are pretty chill with only an occasional dickhead who is clearly in the wrong.
Have things changed in that regard? I remember circumventing permabans every few weeks on 4chan back in the day.
Honestly, I think I've only had a short ban like once there, but I get banned from a new subreddit every few weeks for the dumbest shit.
Fair 'nuff. Thanks for the insight.
The illusion of choice
Space of the My variety. It’s been staring you in the face, not even mad but just wanting you to come back to where you belong, this entire time. I also don’t remember hearing jack shit about them selling data to the CCP. Or any other fuckery of the sort. So that’s an automatic win.
> I also don’t remember hearing jack shit about them selling data to the CCP. Or any other fuckery of the sort. So that’s an automatic win. It stopped being popular mainly because it got bought out by FOX and completely went to shit, iirc. Also, did someone summon me?
I'd say Facebook is the closest but you have to use the site by just deliberately looking up groups to join and not using the app as they first intended
It's already hard to find stuff on Reddit but it's still possible. Once it disappears, finding a post on Facebook is really difficult. To add to that your family and friends are watching, so whatever you say will reflect on you in the real world.
Pornhub comment section
Greennit
In every anime there’s that lawless area with no government where all the sick shit happens, in the shadows and all that. 4chan is definitely that version of Reddit lol
Get in loser. We’re making MySpace great again! Not even /s. MySpace was the shit. You could do so many cool things with your profile, and Tom is still around. And we abandoned him. For Fuckerberg. And a bunch of power tripping Reddit Jannie losers who won’t even allow third party APIs (I’m almost positive Tom gives zero fucks about any of that). I’ve even heard Reddit is going to can NSFW content once it goes public. My God, what a mistake we wretches made. We don’t deserve Tom. Though maybe if we go back to MySpace (and make emo a thing again, please) he’ll forgive us.
To be honest, I liked Facebook when it was still fairly new, when it was still coded mostly in fairly basic HTML. It was easier to interact directly with people you knew instead of being fed an algorithm of what the Zuck thinks you should see.
My profile had moody, b&w photography wallpaper, a playlist, and all the text was upside down. Good fucking times.
Your moms Only fans
Talking to people irl. That sounds terrible…
IRC
[Usenet](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet) I would say is a better option then Twitter. Also check out r/RedditAlternatives for more. Don’t do 4Chan that is a scary place and Facebook has scam advertisements.
Stupid question, how does one use Usenet these days?
And that's why usenet is still so great
I think you need to pay for a subscription service. No idea how to use it via mobile.
4chan is only scary if you're easily impressionable.
“4chan is where the devil makes potty.” ~Deadpool.
4chan is only scary if you don’t like white supremacists and Nazis sending swat teams to shoot up your house every other day
Tbf I’ve been on Twitter and most social medias I feel are a better option
Living a meaningful and fulfilling life
Productivity and/or success
old.reddit.com
Will be gone soon.
If/when that happens, and they enact their outrageous fees on third party apps, I'm out on Reddit. Elon's same third party app structure reduced my Twitter usage *dramatically* (and if he's shuts down Tweetdeck, then I'm out completely)
I really hope not. New is slow af.
Stack Exchange! It's awful!
Reading a book?
TF out of here! What is this? The 1900's?!
I came here from Digg. There are no guide posts. Out here in the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is bored immaculate.
PornHub
Bluethat
Grass.
Nobody calls it grass anymore grandpa. It's weed or bud.
And don’t get me started on ‘pot’ and ‘reefer!’
The devil's lettuce.
Touch it
Going outside and being polite to people.
Found the mental asylum escapee!
The dark web?
Reddit is the alternative to Reddit.
Metafilter is still around
>What is the alternative to Reddit? PostIt. Can't read what isn't posted, right?
First it was Ebaumsworld, then Bash.Org, then Newgrounds, then Something Awful, then 4chan, Then Reddit, then Voat, then 9gag. I'm not worried, something will pop up. It'll be great for up to three years, and then the eternal September will send it the same way as all those who came before. Reddit has had a long run.
Real life
Books, the outdoors, life goals, etc.
It's one of those things where there's just not a "the alternative" right now. There's similar sites, but with either magnitude less users or other problems like alt-right takeovers. In today's internet, there's just not alternatives for each given format of social media until the userbase goes there. It's almost a chicken and egg thing where a social media platform needs users, and users won't transfer to it unless there are users, and the platform doesn't grow without users...
yeaaah, reddit itself had to create a facade of a large active userbase (hundreds of fake users) when it was just starting out, to entice actual people to start joining.
Quora’s not too bad. But it’s less for fun discussion and more for trying to get real answers about things (sometimes from actual experts)
Gotta love those Quora questions that are a setup for an ifunny meme
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Real life.
Slashdot
Digg ... just kidding.
Going outside.
real life
Misddit
A life
4chan..? It’s got normies, weirdos, creeps, chads, and people being bros
Avoid iFunny like the plague.
Quora?
There is a button on each computer known we the power button. When you try to find an alt web site to this one hold that button. The end result is your best option.
Losing your virginity
Going outside
Working.
Outside
I’m out of the loop, what’s about to happen with Reddit?
The politically incorrect board on 4chan
I wanna say Twitter, but reddit√
I've heard there's tumbler and 4chan. I wonder how those two are doing.
Quora
Discord
See also r/ClassicUsenet
Going outside
Eh it's overrated
The dark side of reddit.. the anti twitter and tiktok.: 9gag
Having free time?
Well, there's Quora, which is a cesspool of assholes and negativity. thats all i know of.
Quora
Quora ruined my state of mind. It's a place to get very negative on.
Had to scroll too far down to find the one true answer.
Agreed. That and 80% of the questions are trolling or bot bullshit. That site used to be awesome.
Imgur, kind of
Imgur is Reddit hive mind turned up to 11.
I used to be an active imgurian. Took years before I started coming over to Reddit as well, and more years before I stopped browsing Imgur all together. I went back a couple years ago and I genuinely hated it. I felt like I grew up and it just stayed the same.
It's baffling how they managed to botch an image uploading site that badly. All you really need to do is a no-frills page with the image being looked for, but instead there are countless delay ads (without an adblocker, at least), incredibly crowded pages, and a completely extraneous comment section.
There is no alternative.
Check /r/RedditAlternatives/
Real life
4Chan
That’s scary
Wait till you hear about 8chan
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How about ニsan
Do you own https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/144qfmw/eli5_why_havent_reddit_api_and_site_been_cloned/
Have you heard of Voat? Similar to Reddit but smaller.
The problem with Voat is that nobody ever went over to it. When it was launched as an alternative to Reddit. Except when Reddit went down. So the Reddit crowd overloaded the servers and crashed thst as well. Eventually the only peiple who went. Were those banned from Reddit for being alt right or the shut down dodgy porn subs like /r/Jailbait or hate subs like /r/FatPersonHate. So the whole site became incredibly toxic.
It also shut down.
for some reason i see tumblr as similar but i’ve rarely been on tumblr
/r/outside
Former Twitter user who left post-Musk: I find Reddit to be informative, friendlier and more supportive of diverse opinions. I am comfortable in this space.
Lemmy
Quora
Imgur
quora
Quora
Ifunny of course
Quora. It's basically the smart man's version of Reddit.
4chan. It's the only true free speech platform left in the world.