stacker.news VS yoasif

https://oddbean.com https://satellite.earth https://stacker.news

https://stacker.news is the equivalent of HN for bitcoiners and the only one I read daily besides this one...

Build something like this https://stacker.news

/r/nostr https://stacker.news

Stacker News, of course.

Stacker News (Nostr client)

If you know Stacker News there is a similar alternative that works in Ethereum called zsync.

I've been checking out some of the reddit alternative software as of late, not so much the many different servers and communities around. Ones I've liked:

Kbin https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

Lotide https://todo.sr.ht/~vpzom/lotide

Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Brutalinks https://sr.ht/~mariusor/brutalinks/

Those all (are supposed to) federate. I don't think federation in these communities is always ideal, drive by posting and what not, I think a better approach would be a client that can read your followed stuff from a local list. But some non-federating options are:

StackerNews https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news

Comment Castles https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

freedit https://github.com/freedit-org/freedit

There are lots more, some are great some not. There have been quite a few posted on this site in recent days. Some communities really just need forums or wikis, link aggregation and content voting aren't really always necessary.

I do believe communities should host their own sites. Some communities just don't have the interest to be viable long term, and Reddit was away to externalize cost so that non viable communities can continue to exist. We see the results of that now, a company that isn't profitable due to bearing costs that nobody else is willing to bear squeezing users to try to stay afloat. This was always a temporary state of affairs. If you can't find a single community member dedicated enough to keep a VPS running, or with large communities, you can't scrounge up enough money from donations or whatever to keep the server running, that community simply isn't viable.

/m/FloatingIsFun is on Kbin now and I've submitted a pull request. I hope this works.

Contribute by submitting a pull request

Lemmy is a software (as kbin), lemmy.ml and kbin.social are servers running that software. Lemmy.ml is managed by extremists but most other instances aren't. The second largest instance is lemmy.world and apart from some growing pains moderating under a big influx of new users it's fine. I would suggest to whoever is willing to take a moment to choose an alternative instance to spread the load (both the one on the servers and the one on the moderators). The instance most recommended on Reddit right now is sh.itjust.works, I'd suggest looking at even smaller ones like sopuli.xyz, lemm.ee or the one where I personally signed up to discuss.tchncs.de. If you speak a language other than English maybe look at instances that are not Anglophone, you will still be able to interact with the other federated instances. The same is true for kbin, it's a very young platform, most instances are in polish, kbin.social is the main international one but there is also fedia.io. Some subreddits have already migrated: https://github.com/yoasif/yoasif.github.io/blob/main/_posts/2023-06-15-unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.markdown