Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?

• 4chan-API

  33 989 0.0

  Documentation for 4chan's read-only JSON API.

  

I thought it would be a good exercise to see what was out there (give other sites a chance), so I started following suggestions others have made. This is the list I currently have compiled.

https://lemmy.ml/ (https://join-lemmy.org/) : ideal reddit replacement

https://www.tiktok.com/ : from a purely entertainment value. This is number one. I was on TikTok last year and it was basically the only entertainment site I visited. I actually did not visit reddit last year - it felt like day old news since so much (entertainment) content was coming from TikTok.

https://mastodon.social/ : I need to get use to Voices/People first over actual story. Reddit (HN) was always article/story first. Probably why I never did Twitter.

https://kbin.social/ : good reddit replacement.

https://flingup.com/ : I quite like this one as a reddit replacement.

https://www.instagram.com/ : created my first acct here. Not sure what to expect. Seems boring and fake.

https://tildes.net/ : invite required: requested one - still waiting... but feels like if reddit and HN merged into one.

https://www.4chan.org/ : actually surprised that normal categories exist. I always thought it was just one giant cesspool.

https://9gag.com/ : lots of ads, tracking but captures the meme-aspect of reddit.

RSS Feeds continues to be my personally best (and tailored) solution.

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https://www.quora.com/ : did not like.

https://hive.blog/ : looks nice but do not like the crypto/payment aspect of it.

https://imgur.com/ : Will not let me browse while using a VPN. Bah! Fail.

https://non.io/ : pay to interact. I think many (like me) don't post enough to justify paying - when other sites deliver so much more.

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I may start looking at BBSes again. What's old is new again...

I have been on IMDB for a couple of years. Writing reviews, creating lists, taking polls. Just saying there's a ton of stuff out there if you're looking to fill downtime.

https://the-federation.info/ : good place to find Fediverse sites.

Many of us (especially me) stopped looking for a while. We find one thing and stick with it. Reddit serves as a reminder that there are 'plenty of other fish in the sea'. Let's go fishing...

• Lemmy

  1,603 12,815 9.8 Rust

  🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse

  

I thought it would be a good exercise to see what was out there (give other sites a chance), so I started following suggestions others have made. This is the list I currently have compiled.

https://lemmy.ml/ (https://join-lemmy.org/) : ideal reddit replacement

https://www.tiktok.com/ : from a purely entertainment value. This is number one. I was on TikTok last year and it was basically the only entertainment site I visited. I actually did not visit reddit last year - it felt like day old news since so much (entertainment) content was coming from TikTok.

https://mastodon.social/ : I need to get use to Voices/People first over actual story. Reddit (HN) was always article/story first. Probably why I never did Twitter.

https://kbin.social/ : good reddit replacement.

https://flingup.com/ : I quite like this one as a reddit replacement.

https://www.instagram.com/ : created my first acct here. Not sure what to expect. Seems boring and fake.

https://tildes.net/ : invite required: requested one - still waiting... but feels like if reddit and HN merged into one.

https://www.4chan.org/ : actually surprised that normal categories exist. I always thought it was just one giant cesspool.

https://9gag.com/ : lots of ads, tracking but captures the meme-aspect of reddit.

RSS Feeds continues to be my personally best (and tailored) solution.

---------

https://www.quora.com/ : did not like.

https://hive.blog/ : looks nice but do not like the crypto/payment aspect of it.

https://imgur.com/ : Will not let me browse while using a VPN. Bah! Fail.

https://non.io/ : pay to interact. I think many (like me) don't post enough to justify paying - when other sites deliver so much more.

---------

I may start looking at BBSes again. What's old is new again...

I have been on IMDB for a couple of years. Writing reviews, creating lists, taking polls. Just saying there's a ton of stuff out there if you're looking to fill downtime.

https://the-federation.info/ : good place to find Fediverse sites.

Many of us (especially me) stopped looking for a while. We find one thing and stick with it. Reddit serves as a reminder that there are 'plenty of other fish in the sea'. Let's go fishing...

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Reddit

  421 15,552 0.0 Python

Is there a reason "someone" just not fork old Reddit and deploy it?

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

• stacker.news

  9 389 9.9 JavaScript

  Internet communities that pay you Bitcoin

  

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.

• comment-castles

  36 59 9.4 JavaScript

  Lightweight internet forum

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.

• freedit

  9 183 6.3 Rust

  The safest and lightest forum, powered by rust.

  

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.

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