[drawfloat]

I appreciate it’s a very different time, so not saying they’re comparable 1 to 1, but back in the waning days of Digg you saw Reddit suddenly growing and growing as this new and actually interesting competitor.

Is there an equivalent today?

I enjoyed using Reddit for years, then used it without (tbh) enjoying it much for probably a couple of years, and finally have almost fully disconnected. There’s no denying it has many more years worth of genuinely useful information on it, so I’ll still use it as a resource for community recommendations when searching.

However, the actual _news_/curated feed mechanic I’ve long sworn off. Is there anything new coming up atm that isn’t just a Reddit knock off?

Edit: side note, thinking about how long ago the Digg —> Reddit shift was has actually filled me with a bit of existential dread. When you stop and think, Reddit has had an incredible run as a popular platform so far.

[uDontKnowMe]

There is a subreddit about this: r/RedditAlternatives. Trouble is, most of them end up being dominated by the alt-right/hate mobs.

Interesting that you want something that is specifically not just a reddit knock off. I actually think that a Reddit knock off focussed on discussion (say, like hacker news, but with subreddits) would do well.

[junon]

This comment doesn't deserve downvotes. I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to find a good alternative without much success.

This comment isn't using these labels incorrectly - the people on most of the alternatives post blatantly anti-Semitic and/or legitimately racist content (not ambiguously or twitter-classified racism, but full-on, hard-R et al, good old fashioned racism), anti-vaxxer mobs, doxxing, calls to violence, etc.

And yes, much of the time this sort of content is the majority.

[Y_Y]

Can't someone take one for the team and set up a place to absorb all of this? It's no fun trying to hang out with someone who's grinding the same old axe every day, especially if it's some lame anti-whoever diatribe.

I don't mind people having whatever views or even irrational and harmful biases, as long as they don't shoehorn them into everything they say. I'm happy to have an interesting discussion with someone who stays on topic and says interesting things, it doesn't matter to me (right then) if I wouldn't think much of other aspects of their life. You don't have to "bring your whole self" to hn or new-reddit or wherever else.

[Seattle3503]

It seems like a lot of communities have moved to discord, but thats obviously not the same.

[pxtail]

The problem I have with discord is that it's kind of similar to facebook - content placed there is elusive, temporary, hidden, non-searchable, non-indexable, non-organized. It's why I hate FB groups and pages with passion - it's purposely designed to be non-accessible,force to ask same questions and get same answers multiple times, waste your time, such a rotten, hostile abomination...

[parafactual]

And even though it seems basically fine now, I am not confident that Discord won't suffer a similar fate to Reddit.