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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by libraryatnight on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:18AM (#36289562)
Anecdotal feeling alert: I think some people won't need an alternate. I am just letting reddit go. I don't get enough value from it to care of it exists anymore. I let Twitter go after the free speech absolutists super sensitive filter flagged me for saying I hope Microsoft burns for what a nightmare they've made their os (trying to help a non savvy user use a local account), I did the automated appeal assuming context would clear the time honored practice of telling businesses to go to hell, when it didn't I just let it go. I'm not deleting that tweet just to participate in that trash hole.

Reddit was a convenient insomniac doom scroll. It can go.

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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by Gareth321 on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:34AM (#36289707)
This is a good take. I’m getting nothing out of Reddit. It’s time to touch some grass.
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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by brodo on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:29AM (#36289665)
Using less social media is probably a good idea in general. Plus HN and lobsters can replace the technical reddit communities.
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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by littlestymaar on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:37AM (#36289731)
HN is way too generalist to even replace /r/programming (I'd say that only ~25% of the main page is technical stuff), not even talking about subreddits dedicated to specific technologies.
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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by dgb23 on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:01AM (#36289910)
I never used Reddit the way you describe. I use it as a forum for niche interests and it’s decent for that. Similar to php based forums but it’s one login and plenty of participants.
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Re:Before Reddit and Digg, there was Fark. Then a user-hosti... by TheOtherHobbes on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:23AM (#36290596)
Tech can go elsewhere. The niche interests can't. At least not as easily.

The obvious competitor for those is still Facebook, but FB's algo is actively hostile to the long-list-of-active-forums UX that makes Reddit work so well.

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