Being an invite-only alpha kills Tildes for me, even though I’m interested in it. It seems the closest to what I want out of a Reddit alternative.

I would hope the community would understand outages, bugs, and oddities if they made Tilde an open alpha.

They just released a bunch of invites to the users there, if you like I can give you one.

I would like one too, thanks!

If you have a spare, I would most appreciate it.

Me too please

If you have another one to spare, I would also be happy about it!

Yes please! [email protected] Thanks!

If you happen to still have one to spare, check my about section. I’ve been reading it without an account for days now and it seems great

Yes please.

Do you still have invites? I'm interested too.

Interestingly, the invite system is exactly what I like about it. You essentially disincentivize the Eternal September phenomenon.

I love reading Tildes, it's great. It reminds me of reddit back when they started, and of HN: interesting discussion without jokes and puns destroying the discourse on the site. I find a similar quality of discourse on https://themotte.org as well, even if the topics are a bit more politically charges, sometimes.

I'll sign up for Tilde the second someone can name me a platform that has out-lasted reddit, without selling customer data, and without being federated

I've yet to hear an example, and I have a functioning memory, and not eager to keep repeating this same cycle.

It's like password managers. Every few years the current popular one has a misstep and everyone flocks to the next closed source, for-profit alternative. Meanwhile I've been using "pass" for over a decade. Do we think it took me longer to learn pass, or longer for folks to migrate hundreds of passwords multiple times?