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Just the one question: alternatives?

Not necessarily already established and crowded platform, but also free and open, privacy friendly ones that can be slowly brought to self sustaining levels by enthusiasts, so that they can attract normal users.

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Some users migrated to alternatives when reddit began mass-banning subs for the first time.

All turned into cesspools full of nazis and fascists focused almost exclusively on hate speech, or died due to inactivity.

True. That's the kind of "freedom of speech" I would happily renounce to in any public platform. Let them spread their idiocy in private form by themselves alone.

Lemmy [1] is still in beta but is open source, self-hostable, and very usable already, and has federation with ActivityPub on the roadmap. There is a main instance up at [2] with a number of offshoots already.

1: https://github.com/LemmyNet

2: https://dev.lemmy.ml

http://voat.co/

It's only a good alternative if you're looking to hang out with people who really like to use the n-word and who believe that everything is Jewish conspiracy.

> It's only a good alternative if you're looking to hang out with people who really like to use the n-word and who believe that everything is Jewish conspiracy.

This was not uncommon on Reddit before Reddit became more streamlined. :-)

Chapo.chat is a popular one for leftists that formed after the chapo subreddits were censored/banned a couple months ago. Fair warning: most HN users aren't going to like it because they advocate for things like food and shelter and healthcare for everyone, no matter what

Most HN users aren't going to like it because it is for far-left "tankies" that promote violence. One of the top posts right now is:

>Some people deserve their heads to be displayed on spikes

To be fair, that posting is largely tongue in cheek because they're bitter for getting banned on reddit under the false pretense of violence. I'm sure a couple people believe it unironically but no one is actually organizing to hurt anyone.

>false pretense of violence

It was pretty real

https://archive.is/XrqOC

As a leftist myself I'd be inclined more to this one, although I wouldn't condone any violence that is not for self defense, nor attacking anyone just because of their ideals - unless their ideals consist in endorsing the opposite of the above. My take on food and shelter and (basic) healthcare for all is that I agree until this can pose a (real, proven) problem for others. Judging from current military expenses and top manager leaves, I'd dare to say that there's enough wealth out there to guarantee most of that to the entire planet.

I don't think anyone associated with y combinator or for that matter, enjoy posting on here would be welcome there.

I would even wager a large chunk would happily wish death on people here for "perpetuating a broken system" or some odd thing.

https://tildes.net/

The last 3 times I've tried to go back to tildes it seems like a massive political circlejerk where dissent is not tolerated.

Is there somewhere without politics being jammed down your throat in every thread?

ruqqus.com

It's in beta though.

That user base basically looks like Voat. As in, not pleasant.

True. However, the community is still young and they may course correct before maturing.

Well I would definitely stay away from Voat. Unless you're a right-wing extremist who thinks jews control the world and that science is a lie.

Since HN is mostly meant for developers and people with science degrees, I guess the anti-science and anti-intellectual part is a big dealbreaker.

> Just the one question: alternatives?

Voat: https://voat.co/

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