Former Digg refugee now Reddit refugee

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[–]magnora7 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Hey, welcome. I'm a former digg refugee too. Digg really messed it up didn't they? I'm impressed at how slow reddit's decline has been compared to digg, which basically imploded all at once after the HD-DVD key deletion scandal, quickly followed by the site redesign, which was done to disguise ads as content, to trick users, and increase digg's income.

I also did newgrounds, something awful, ebaumsworld... fark.com also comes to mind, b3ta

Interference from corporations, advertisers, bots, media giants, governments, and NGO's was at a much lesser extent.

I agree, it used to be the exception. Now it's the rule. It's harder to find normal people to talk to online anymore, it seems. It's so much astroturf and bots now, and it's frustrating to use moreso than before.

It's time for the Reddit monopoly to have some competition again

Amen to that. Here's a list of reddit alternatives, run by saidit's admin d3rr, which it looks like he updated just yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/fas4on/list_of_active_reddit_alternatives_50/

I specifically recommend www.notabug.io and www.ruqqus.com in addition to saidit, they seem to be pretty high-quality for the most part.

I'm a big fan of alternatives, and more media options! This is what freedom of information looks like.

[–]whistlepig 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's harder to find normal people to talk to online anymore

So true... I've actually been going back to irc this year.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Are there people still on IRC that chat instead of just fileshare? How'd you find them?

[–]whistlepig 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There are the same ones that have always existed... shared interest is the easy one.. like on freenode, I'm on #linux, #hardware, #reprap, #noagenda etc etc.. For example, right this moment on #reprap they're talking about wikipedia. So people aren't always 100% on topic.

But ... this model works well for other things that IRC doesn't or I wouldn't be here. ;]

[–]muyuu 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm so tired of the preachy politics era we live in. I really miss IRC but to be fair I'm just interacting with people much less. Not only platforms get lost, but people either vanish from conversations, or get radicalised, or just cocoon themselves and just keep a facade online.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good to know some of the old communities are still kicking on IRC