I'm interested in other Hacker News-like sites. I'd actually just like to leave for something better. I'm increasingly tired of the low brow conversations.

lobste.rs may be the closest, but its referral-based registration leaves you with this odd interleave of being connected to the site potentially by a member you don't actually really know well.

I think they try to discourage that, but I've seen it not work out that way in practice.

Regardless, lobste.rs is a bit too much of a clone.