comsta.net seems to be done for. Only gives a server error when you try to access it.

Was ranked 38 in the similar sites ranking to reddit according to the pinned post in this sub. Personally I liked Comsta a lot, but I guess it never picked up enough traction to get going. Sad to see it boarded up.

https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/running-a-small-social.html

"For years, journalists have been proclaiming the death of the small online forum. We have had legitimate reasons for doubting that, but thanks to what has been happening with big tech's social media lately, small forums are looking like better alternatives every day. Big tech's social media has been widely acknowledged to be a disaster, and this is largely because the priorities of corporations that own and run giant social media sites are not at all aligned with those of us who use them. We want good online experiences. They want money. We want online communities where we fit in. They want ever higher profits. If you have ever considered running your own small social media site, now is the time to consider building a home for a few hundred or perhaps even a few thousand of what might become a flood of refugees fleeing from the social media hellscape that big tech has conjured up in its unholy lust for profits."

Not too long ago Matrix got support for optionally reuploading images. This was largely intended to help move discord images to a better host. But they still get posted even with the option there.

One issue with Discord images is that they have a limited lifespan. It's sort of what the cdn part of the URL means, is that it's a temporally provisioned resource in a content distribution network.

Discord's approach is to encourage users to engage directly with their platform, which is great for their community, but they aren't really interested in offering utility to other sites because their model is a single everything included app with little cross site interaction. That's the why of what they do. The what is links that last about two days.

Matrix is now taking a new approach by identifying temporary image URLs and rehosting them. This means I'll also be adding uguu.se and litter.catbox.moe. If you know of any more common temporary image URLs let me know.

Right move, wrong move, let me know.

Similar post on Matrix: https://matrix.gvid.tv/c/MatrixDev/Dsv84Pq6Ko

Been lurking here for a while waiting to see if a proper Reddit replacement would emerge. During that time I've been steadily unsubbing from the subreddits that I find lack in content. The quality of posts on reddit has really been dropping for me for the past few years. Low-effort memes and self-centered comments that contribute little now seem to make up most of the content I see on Reddit (I find easily 2/3 comments contribute nothing.)

Down to a handful of subs now and it's still dropping. Feels good removing this stuff from my time online. Would recommend. Even if a successor to Reddit comes along, at this point, I don't think I'll be signing up for it.

Hi all I started a reddit alternative centered around hobbies and interests.

It basically works like reddit where you can create different interest pages like subreddits. The difference is it also has the ability to attach a marketplace to that interest with no additional effort. With it you can create search filters like you'd see on ebay/craigslist/etsy and leave user reviews to build trust around sellers/buyers/traders. Currently the biggest chat is around watches but come join us!

https://chattertrade.com/

listing example

searching

they started blocking out certain countries so there is some censorship too

Reddit is under complete collapse, redditors are either toxic, trolls or Even ask you for Drugs if you have ones. Another problem is that it is filled With psychedelic esoteric ideologies we saw example in the Matrix movies. Lots or American and Russian fanatics, one supporting the war in Ukraine and other having so much faith in America. It has also non helpful answers, useless Memes and other stuff. Are there any alternatives to reddit where society did not collapsed and warring With each other🔵🆚🔴. Do you know anything? Thanks for answers

From my experiance in the last months, lemmy is starting to be filled with reddit repost bots and almost no comments if you use it past the popular page.

I think the next big potential alternative is discuit, they have been rising in popularity and the community there seems to be postive and fairly active.

What are the drawbacks of each lemmy instance for the more popular lemmy instances? In particular the way they are run? And who runs them? Although I understand content is federated, I don't want an account at an instance I later regret.

Getting banned from Reddit is getting on my nerves especially when I didn’t do anything wrong , so wanna switch , I want discussions about anime , Web series , K drama , movies , sports .

I'm a coder with decades of experience and I have tried making an alternative in the past but it failed. The reason it failed, as most do, was due to lack of content.

So I was thinking - what if I make an alt and use AI in order to generate content for it. The difference is, any AI-generated posts would have to be marked with a bot icon so people know it isn't a real person.

This would solve the content issue to get the site off the ground.

Thoughts?

I was using Lemmy for a month almost completely and I found myself battling communists and pro soviet or even Russia sympathisers at every step. As a country recovered from soviet influence it was super annoying and I couldn’t help to view these people as drooling idiots despite my enormous benefit of doubt and openness to discussion.

I think I give up because no matter the instance it’s always the same. Some insane unsavoury radical left narrative permeates the site deeply. Even the innocent tech news on world instance there is massive swarm of people making it all political and in the cringy ways. So suddenly instead of having discussion of some interesting tech now we have Russia vs USA and other garbage which is fine in some comms but it litters literally everything.

I suspect the ml devs foster this and that was their goal since the start.

So I keep looking for the alternatives it seems for now or will keep to beehaw.org local feed maybe.

I can't figure out news blur for the life of me

because they are similar is the same website just out of curiosity?

I recently discovered it. It seems semi-active and there are other topics than arts and site itself.

Hi! I'm curious if any Reddit alternatives have NSFW spaces, like r/dirtyr4r or similar subreddits? Have any of the NSFW subreddits migrated to other platforms? Thanks!

I am asking about platforms like 9gag (memes) or Quora(questions) or Kialo(discussion).

I am looking for platforms that is very focused on 1 thing.

Id like to apologize because I know this gets asked kinda frequently.

What I’m looking for specifically: ideally an instance that has little to zero interest in being political. Or favoring either side of the political spectrum. An instance that promotes having fun above all else.

The issue I’ve come across, (as have many) is the interesting communities on Lemmy I’ve subscribed to aren’t active. I do in fact post a lot from them to encourage activity. But so far not much luck I hope that changes though

Are there any fun nonsense type instances that are more about having a good time and less about politics ?

Thanks in advance

its like it's either one or the other extremes these days. i just want a chill space to talk about my topics of interests without dealing with lowlife tryhard neckbeards, heavy censorship but also without the neo nazi maga qanon bullshit.

I am looking for alternatives to

🔹Facebook

🔹Twitter

🔹Instagram

🔹Tumblr

Does anyone know of any?

I enjoy the whole different communities you can join kind of thing on reddit the most. Being in communities where you have similar interests and etc. I would like it to have a decent amount of people that use it as well. Not like 10 people who use the alternative. Nothing politics related which seems to be an issue I have seen in some of the posts .

...where the algo didn't encourage posts that would enrage me (lol.)

I am very centered politically/socially so I stay away from what I feel are super liberal / super conservative sources.

Impressive human achievement videos - some crossposts, but not as many as you would think:
r/nextlevel
r/nextfuckinglevel
r/BeAmazed

Also, I did a bunch of research to find different sites that should have been Reddit's successor in the Slashdot > Digg > Reddit RSS Feed /w comments category. Most results are RSS feeds, some with low user counts (and some from this sub!)

Ordered by what I feel is most relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
https://feedly.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
https://beehaw.org/?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=Active

Not sold on either of these yet:
https://tildes.net/ (invite only)
https://lobste.rs/

There's a new community based website that's been getting some traction on the interweb recently. It's called Just About.

https://justabout.com/

I wouldn't necessarily call it a "Reddit Alternative", but it's not exactly a "Forum" either... It's a bit of a mish-mash between the two.

The admin team have outlined their roadmap for the site, and have a number of exciting developments in the pipeline over the next few months.

https://justabout.com/just-about/presenting-the-just-about-2023-roadmap

Oh... And there's also a Youtube video which gives some (much needed) information about the site.

https://youtu.be/JbEND2kXfsE?si=sFAifz06_toSXL2w

Long before I was using Reddit in 2013 under a different username, I was quite active on a number of discussion forums. The main forums I used were the SpaceBattles, SufficientVelocity, and AlternateHistory forums. Most of my interest are around fiction, gaming, science and technology. It seems like whenever I go to a forum now, it looks like every forum is in the process of being dead or dying. When I sometimes look through a forum I'll see how many members are online and I'll see at most 10 people. It seems like every site is mostly just Reddit, Discord, Quora, Stack Exchange, or Facebook groups. I want to know are there any forums out there that are still active that have at least 1,000 members or 1,000+ posts a day?