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Architecturally, I don't think 1.000 subreddits and that different from 1.000 separately hosted forums/chans/Reddit clones (and indeed, many of those exist and the level of conflict and brigading among those separate communities doesn't ever reach the same level as among subreddits).

I'd rather say the difference comes from keeping the same identity across communities, which allows you to easily gain fame/disgrace in one community and use it to influence another one, and an administration/moderation team with a bias and a willingness to cave to pressure.

> but why would I want to use a public discussion tool that disallows public discussion?

Alternately, why would I want a public discussion tool that lets low effort garbage memes fill the public channels with effluent?

Did you find a replacement for reddit you like?

HN?

HN is nice but historically the topics had to be very specific to tech, startups, etc.

Recently it seems to have been a little easier on the political and social commentary stuff which i think is pretty nice and refreshing.

Though I understand why some aren’t as much of a fan. It does attract more drama and flame baiting.

I agree with the historical part because recently there has been more meme posts, one liner edgy comments, giant political rants, etc.

And since people can't delete your post after 2 hours, you can see a lot of fluff nowadays even in a relatively old thread.

The mix hasn't changed on HN. There's some fluctuation of course but people have been perceiving and pronouncing the same trends for 10+ years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

I like something called littr.me, single community link aggregator (like HN) but federates, so you get the interaction between communities but each community is sovereign, free to isolate itself as it pleases.

https://github.com/mariusor/go-littr

But it isn't about "a replacement for reddit." It is about finding communities online you want to engage in and engaging. Forums, non-federated aggregators (like HN), chatrooms all suffice. The trick is to avoid a one stop shop for communities.

Thanks, sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

Your probably write about avoiding the on stop shop.

>Remember when it was a slippery slope fallacy to suggest that this sort of thing would go beyond banning fatpeoplehate?

It started earlier than that with the ban of r/jailbait. It always comes back to "protect the children"