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by Semaphor 2094 days ago
In my case: Because there are simply no better niche communities (or platforms). Forums have no threading, that makes any kind of forking discussion unreadable. Discourse is worse than most normal forums half the time. Twitter and all the twitter-imitating decentralized sites (that new reddit also tries to move towards and that big subreddits also have) have that whole hard-on for deciding on content based on the user who posted instead of the content.

What do I not read on reddit? Pretty much the stuff that’s posted on HN. HN has a worse interface (especially since there is no Reddit Enhancement Suite) than old Reddit, but the comments are usually (unless it’s US related) better.

So yes, I’d like to move off Reddit (and probably will if they ever turn off old reddit), but there is simply nothing comparable besides Reddit clones usually overrun with rightwing nutjobs and barely any other content.
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kalleboo 2094 days ago
> Because there are simply no better niche communities (or platforms

Also notably the Reddit clones all seem to just be full of the people who were banned from reddit... And while I defend everyone's right to free speech, I really don't want to read the speech of these particular people (I just checked the front page of voat. Top stories include a headline insinuating Hollywood is run by Jews, and a video that is described as "great for redpilling normies")

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baud147258 2094 days ago
> Forums have no threading, that makes any kind of forking discussion unreadable

I don't think that's a good argument against forums. First threads can be split by mods, thus creating a new thread (not a perfect solution, but it can be useful when part of a thread goes too off-topic). And I've found that the reply mentions make forking conversation readable, even if it's not as good as the HN/reddit format. And even then, I don't really think the lack of forking is the biggest issue with niche forums, but rather than a sub reddit can be easily created (and many people already know reddit and may have an account), whereas creating/setting up a forums is more difficult.

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