How's everyone feeling about Reddit alternatives right now? My use of Reddit is going to stay pretty minimal, though I expect to check in a little bit as long as old.reddit is around.
I'm still enjoying Tildes (which I think a few folks here would enjoy), and just picked up a Kbin account. Hoping to get an invite to Beehaw as well but their admins are a little swamped (and there is drama going on there).
@evistre The biggest problem is the simple fact that Reddit has largely replaced single-purpose web forums for many things. And sort of the whole point is that it has a huge user base, so the subreddits with 100,000 people are popular, but some of those people also are in the 100-ish that wouldn't really have the userbase to maintain a separate web forum.
I visit Reddit daily, and not miss the occasional post in a small subreddit. A forum? I might forget for months to check.
@evistre (Which is the case for a few. There is a forum for one thing I care about. But it's lucky if it gets half a dozen posts/comments a month. The subreddit may be only slightly busier - but I *NOTICE* when people post there as it's in my feed with all my completely-unreleated subreddits.)
And yes, I view Reddit solely via old.reddit.com/new - No wonky new UI, no algorithm deciding what I see. All my subreddits, purely chronological.
@evistre I wouldn't mind a "federated forums" thing, though. One interface to see feeds from multiple forums at once. I know some special-interest forums have links to related forums. (Log in to a Camaro forum, and at the bottom you'll see links that actually go to related Corvette forums, Mustang forums, etc.) But they tend to be VERY-related, and solely because one person runs them all; not in any mass-federation thing, and you can't add arbitrary extras.