[muvek]

Twitter alternatives (mastodon), instagram alternative (pixelfed), reddit alternative (prismo.news)... Things are looking great!

[codetrotter]

For now I am still on Reddit but another open source alternative to Reddit that I learned about earlier today is https://tildes.net/. Judging from the amount of votes and comments they have very few users as of yet. Will be interesting to see how Tildes develops over time.

[chris_mc]

I used Tildes during the first round of public closed alpha and it's pretty nice, everyone was polite, and they didn't put up with rude folks or bullshit trolls. I ended up quitting because there wasn't enough content at the time and I was wasting too much time there, like I did on Reddit. However, I would say it might be worth going back there to check it out again. The platform itself is open source, I believe, and it uses as little JS as possible to make the site simple.

[AsyncAwait]

https://tildes.net doesn't seem to be federated. Is it?

[codetrotter]

I don’t think so, no. They probably would have said so if it was.

I wonder if they are open to patches that would make it federated.

[Deimorz]

I've got a note about this in the FAQ (https://docs.tildes.net/faq#why-isnt-tildes-decentralizeddis...):

> Why isn't Tildes decentralized/distributed/federated?

> Decentralized communities are interesting and have a lot of potential, but that model also introduces its own problems and difficulties. Tildes is already attempting to do quite a few things differently to improve the quality of online communities, and I'm more interested in focusing on those goals without introducing the additional complexity of decentralization.

> However, since Tildes is open-source, someone else could certainly use it as a base for their own decentralized version.

I'm not interested in running a decentralized version myself, but I'd love to see someone else try to make it work.

[codetrotter]

Thanks for responding about that here, did not expect that :)

[Quanttek]

How do you get an account there?

[Deimorz]

Just send me an email - the address and more info about the site are in the announcement post (offer's open to anyone else that's interested too): https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

I send out invites daily. It's not intended to be difficult to get an account, I just want to prevent it from getting out of control when it gets a huge burst of attention due to situations like a subreddit getting banned.

[Quanttek]

Thank you! I reached out

[dilap]

I love the spirit, but I feel like it's gunna be hard for a straight-clone decentralized site to gain traction. I think you need to combine fresh site ideas along w/ the decent to really gain traction.

[holler]

check out sqwok, new & starting beta https://sqwok.im

[dawnerd]

Gross, broke back navigation on my trackpad.

[holler]

Sorry to hear that! It shouldn't have any issue w/back button so if it did it's definitely a bug. It's a very new project and hasn't been tested on a track-pad yet but thanks for reporting!