Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by benbristow on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:07PM (#19088610)

If their API is killed I think Reddit's done for. I wouldn't use it if I were forced to use the official app myself, sure many others wouldn't either.

Folk would probably move over to something like voat.co

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by deminature on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:25PM (#19088786)

Voat is appalling and revels in its terribleness. There has to be something better to migrate to.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by ATsch on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:26PM (#19091518)

The most promising general reddit equivalent I've seen so far is tildes.net. It's the first time I've seen a fork of the reddit model with some actually fresh ideas. However, like all of the hundreds of alternatived, this site is far below the critical mass required to make browsing it regularly worthwhile.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by vpmpaul on Friday February 08, 2019 @10:12AM (#19114875)

All that it needs is for reddit to commit suicide just like digg chose to.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by illegalsmile on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:40AM (#19096659)

Would you have an invite to send to try the alpha?

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by rhizome on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:04PM (#19089807)

Reddit : Usenet :: Slack : IRC

There will be other places for you to migrate to, as there have been for decades, if not an entire generation.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by isostatic on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @09:03AM (#19095087)

Reddit has always been some new thing that the kids use. Slack will be dying soon enough too.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by rootusrootus on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:15PM (#19088694)

I expect people would mostly just use the mobile web site. And there would be a lot of noise. But I can't ever see myself going to somewhere like voat.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by code_duck on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @04:44AM (#19093889)

Voat? Might as well believe that Facebook users are switching to Diaspora

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by sneakernets on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:17PM (#19088703)

You usually would move over to something better, not worse.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by AsyncAwait on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:17PM (#19089349)

Yeah, Voat's not an appealing alternative. There's an ActivityPub-powered, federated link aggregator in the works[1], that could work out really well as each community could have their own rules and if you don't want to federate with a particular one, just block them.

1 - https://gitlab.com/mbajur/prismo

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by noir_lord on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:46PM (#19090809)

Off topic but man do I like gitlabs current UI on iPad, not seen it for a while.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by ndnxhs on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:28PM (#19090011)

There is an alternative made by a previous reddit dev called tildes.net its invite only and quite enjoyable to use. Classic lightweight website and no trolls

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