Myspace was the flavor of the month. Now it is facebook/imgur/snapchat. But before it was friendster, AIM, MSN, ICQ etc. Maybe next it will be Discord or Son Of Discord.
The wheel continues to turn. I have zero faith Reddit will command the market share it does today, in 2030.
Slashdot really only competes with a dozen or so subreddits, after all, not with reddit as a whole.
But I guess that replies aren't implemented :(
> Snew is an open-source parody client for reddit.
> It is a client forked from the reddit source code that runs entirely in your browser.
> Snew attempts to undo reddit's pervasive censorship
> Content is pulled directly from the reddit api and pushshift.io
0) https://snew.notabug.io/r/all/
1) https://snew.notabug.io/r/mobileweb/comments/f2afvz/this_com...
Interesting. Seems active too.
There's also tildes: https://tildes.net/ (I tried googling them and they're nowhere to be found. Ironically /r/tildes popped up before the actual site did.)
And lobsters: https://lobste.rs/
notabug.io is a decentralized Reddit alternative that uses open source html/css from Reddit but whole new backend.
Snew.notabug.io is an anti censorship Reddit client that also uses open source html/css from Reddit but uses Reddit’s APIs and pushshift.io"
- go1dfish (admin of both)
https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/qs5/saidit_is_now_the_s...
It just gives you ~everything that got posted to Reddit.
Which is very useful for research purposes. And it fixes another Reddit defect, wherein it won't display full comment history, unless you're logged in.
Not every network has to be a bastion of free speech, but being closed minded and erasing entire discussions that they don't like is a great way to build an echo chamber.
I wish a remember more of the context, but I had bookmarked this page[0] because it was an interesting discussion on this matter. As you can see, it's been nuked.
0: https://tildes.net/~tildes/ct2/no_invite_links_available_hav...
I like the HN approach, generally. Even people who have gotten themselves shadowbanned can still post, and interesting comments can be vouched. And there's redemption with consistent evidence of constructive posting.
Ideally, though, I like distributed systems, where content is persistent and irrevocable. But with multiple portals, each with its own standards, and portal-specific moderation. And additionally, giving users the tools to filter, based on posters, topics, keywords, time, etc.
Anyway, about the URL, archive.org has no snapshots, and just tells me that it's available. But perhaps someone has archived it, and will post a link.
Reddit is the Nth most popular site in the world. (I'm not exactly sure what N is, but it's pretty small.) Whatever the competition is, it hardly registers on the radar.
If they wouldn't use these practices I would probably spend a significant amount of time on their site. But as it is now, I feel reluctant to visit reddit unless I am searching for a solution to a specific problem.
I am not even sure if users like me who stay away even show up in any of the metrics they use to justify their current actions — how would they even messure it?
Where are you going to go? Voat?
They can be as horrible to their users as they want. As long as they have cat pictures on the front page, nobody cares enough to change anything.
I think we're all getting exactly what is deserved by collectively allowing a monopoly to form. (I'm not suggesting there should be legal action. I'm saying, by the laws of exponential curves and popularity, monopolies naturally form, and this is the result.)