[fiblye]

I've been waiting for a new alternative for over 10 years now. Loads of "new reddits" have popped up pretty frequently since then, but they've all crashed and burned. Either they can't sustain activity, or they get taken over by communities that are incredibly hostile.

Reddit is an absolute dump, though. It just has enough constant activity that people will keep dealing with it until some major update breaks it for, like, a whole week and people migrate because they don't really have a choice.

[Hypx]

Occam's razor suggests that any social media site that reaches a certain size becomes hostile. That's why no "new reddits" could gain traction without becoming just as bad or worse.

[mariusor]

See my adjacent comment to yours, I feel like social networks that try to jumble users together indiscriminately of their personal interests are doomed to grow to this amorphous mass of disagreeableness that reddit turned into.

The naive approach to solving this would be to create small communities that can interact between themselves as part of a larger network. I'm not there with my project, but I'm getting pretty close. I hope that it will prove to be the correct solution. :)

[fiblye]

HN gets more activity than most reddit-likes, but it stays pretty tame compared to most others.

But it also lacks the general appeal that reddit has.

[cvhashim]

That’s because HN has a specific mission which focuses around tech and startups. Makes it easy for mod teams to manage content.

[dmos62]

That's cynical. Follows that you couldn't have large (reddit-sized at least), good-natured platforms. I too see the tendency, but I think it will be solved.

[polynomial]

Or just cyclical.

[mariusor]

The new movement to put forward federated small size communities for link aggregation and discussions has maybe a solution for your problem. The project I'm working on currently has these exact things as goals: https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr#about

Basically it wants to be a service that is easy to deploy, not resource hungry and with minimal overhead over the base federated protocol (ActivityPub in this case) that allows it to sustain a small/medium community that shares similar interests, but also have access to the wider federated community (composed of various instances of Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc.).