A site to replace reddit

asquirrel · May 10, 2020

In the beginning The Word was with..wait, no, wrong thing.

Back in 2008 I started browsing Digg. I loved the aggregation of interesting content. Then Digg did something stupid (ads? I forget) and most people jumped ship to reddit. I still remember the "Thou shalt not speak only in meme" rule they tried to apply back then. Around 2012 one particular subreddit got put on reddit's front page and I found that subreddit so toxic that I made a reddit account purely so I could remove that subreddit from my front page. Apparently I wasn't the only one who thought this because within 1 year, as the article points out, that subreddit got removed from reddit's front page.

As the years have gone by I've watched the site change. At a fundamental level I like that interesting information tends to bubble to the top. I also like being able to click on (some) stories and have the top comment basically be "This is true" or "this is false". But in recent years reddit really has gone a bit bonkers. I know you don't like politics, but, well, reddit *is* a highly political place and I don't agree with the very vocal portion of the site that likes to assume they are the only point of view that exists or is allowed to be correct. They permeate everything and I'm just exhausted from it. I'm exhausted from every single topic in every single subreddit being 'wrong', even when it actually agrees with things they say in other places. I just want a place to get my interesting information (not just about tech; I could get that here) without all the B.S. Does anyone know of such a place?

I have a Wt.social account but that UI is aids. Maybe it makes sense on a smartphone, but it's just cancer to try and read anything on that site. Mainstream news sites (latimes, etc) are all part of the problem, so they are out. I'm less interested in political news and more of just the general sort of "what's up in the world today" snapshot that the front page of reddit used to be filled with. Suggestions?

clamchives · May 10, 2020

See if you can get an invite to Tildes. I have some ages-old account from at least a few years ago, but from what I experienced, they center a lot more on sober constructive discussion over rampant memeing and political standoffs. /r/Tildes has an invite thread if you're interested.