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Lots of the alternatives seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.

I've been building a platform called Sociables which is intentionally not just a Reddit clone. We are trying to create an all-in-one place for people to create communities and not just posts.

Here's an example of a community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending

Appreciate the feedback! Is there anything specific you'd like to see added to whatever platforms win out?

I've been using DuckDuckGo as my main search engine however I do find myself adding the "!g" bang a lot. It's hard to escape the google grasp.

I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's sort of a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform. It feels like the people curating the communities should be rewarded for the work that they do.

Here's an example community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending

I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's sort of a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform. It feels like the people curating the communities should be rewarded for the work that they do.

Here's an example community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending

Thanks for the feedback.

I've been building this with a friend in our free time over the past few years. We are in an open beta right now. We are definitely a bit guilty of delaying promoting it in favour of trying to polish things however the recent Reddit news really pushed us to start getting the word out. This project has really been a labour of love for me.

In regards to how we plan to monetize, just gonna repost this message I sent in another comment thread:

> One of the key design decisions was to bake in different methods for monetization within each community so that the community admins/mods can get paid. We take a minority cut of each transaction to help fund the platform.

> Each community has the ability to offer tiered monthly membership plans and can optionally gate individual pieces of content, or the entire community behind the memberships (the content gating part is a work in progress). We are also adding the ability for users to pay to bump posts and buy comment awards which the revenue is shared with the community owner. Basically we are looking at adding ways for the communities to make money in ways that don't come at the detriment to the community itself.

> We are also exploring offering a platform wide subscription fee that would give users some additional benefits as well however we haven't fully fleshed this out yet.

Currently we aren't federated however we are looking into protocols such as ActivityPub. It's certainly interesting. It's possible we could federate our posts however one component of our platform is that communities can optionally gate access behind a membership fee. We are actively targeting content creators to get them to host their communities on our platform and some creators like having the option to have private communities. I'm not entirely sure how that model would fit with federation if we go the route of federating our posts, but it's something I'm certainly looking into.

Cheers!

One of the key design decisions was to bake in different methods for monetization within each community so that the community admins/mods can get paid. We take a minority cut of each transaction to help fund the platform.

Each community has the ability to offer tiered monthly membership plans and can optionally gate individual pieces of content, or the entire community behind the memberships (the content gating part is a work in progress). We are also adding the ability for users to pay to bump posts and buy comment awards which the revenue is shared with the community owner. Basically we are looking at adding ways for the communities to make money in ways that don't come at the detriment to the community itself.

We are also exploring offering a platform wide subscription fee that would give users some additional benefits as well however we haven't fully fleshed this out yet.

Yeah, that was a key design decision from the start. All posts and comments made on the platform are indexable by search engines.

Appreciate the feedback. So within each community, the admin can create an unlimited amount of different discussion boards related to the niche of the community. Each post within a board has threaded comment trees similar to reddit where it lends well to long form.

We felt that in order to fully capture each aspect of the community space, we needed to include each different type of communication tool. What I mean by that is we have a twitch style IM chatroom, Discord style voice rooms, and Reddit style discussion boards for longer form communication.

I'm not familiar with LaTeX rendering, but will definitely check it out to see if it's something that we could integrate into our platform.

It seems like a lot of the suggested alternatives are missing the mark a bit in regards to understanding what Reddit actually is (a community of communities). It seems like a lot of the platforms that are popping up are more akin to being just a huge bucket full of posts with tags opposed to being a collection of communities. They are sort of missing out on capturing the community part.

I've been building a platform called Sociables which is intentionally not just a Reddit clone. We are trying to create an all in one place for people to create communities first and foremost and not just posts.

Here's an example of a community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending

To echo what another commenter said, I feel like a lot of the suggested alternatives are missing the mark a bit in regards to understanding what Reddit actually is (a community of communities). It seems like a lot of the platforms that are popping up are more akin to being just a huge bucket full of posts with hashtags opposed to being a collection of communities. They are sort of missing out on capturing the community part.

Shameless plug, but that's been a focus of ours with the platform that I've been building (sociables.com). We are trying to create an all in one stop for people to create communities, and not just posts.

Here's an example of a community on the platform:

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending

Appreciate the feedback. There is definitely a bit of a learning curve to our platform coming from a place like reddit. It's intentionally not a 1-to-1 copy. We're kind of building a Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid that combines the best parts of each platform to try and bring a bit of innovation into the community platform space. A focus of ours is to help the community owners monetize.

Yeah fair enough. It definitely was the quickest and easiest approach to organizing fast given the circumstances

Just to add to the list of alternatives, I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's sort of a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform. It feels like the people curating the communities should be rewarded for the work that they do.

Here's an example community: https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending

Ironically using a sub-reddit created for this

> Unlike moderators on Reddit, who have no established way to seek support from the platform or its users

The article brings up a good point regarding how Reddit relies a lot on free labor to work. The incentives for operating the communities are primarily built on good will.

I've been working on a Reddit/Discord/Patreon style hybrid community platform that puts a focus on the community owner/admins getting paid. It feels like the people running the communities should be rewarded for the work that they do.

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/home

Posts on Sociables are search engine indexable by default. One aspect I like about reddit is how you can append "reddit" to the end of a google search to get discussion about the thing you are searching for. This was a design decision that we went with from the start to make Sociables behave similarly. We are also working on improvements to our internal search to make post results also appear.

So within a community on our platform the creator can create different discussion boards for all the relevant topics related to their niche. Within those discussion boards, posts can get "bumped" to increase their relevancy within the board. We have an aggregation feed as well which shows the most relevant posts across each board within the community. We are working on expanding the ways in which we aggregate the most topical posts across different time spans for the reasons you mentioned.

As far as content moderation, we are leaving it mainly up to each community to self moderate. We are also looking into leveraging AI to assist with flagging posts for the moderators to review to help improve their job.

I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform and have been specifically targeting content creators to get them to offer their communities as a product alongside their content.

The communities that form around content creators tend to be high in engagement and are a sort of naturally occurring beacon for connecting like minded people together online. That is the core of social networking after all.

https://sociables.com/creators

> I don't see why e.g. a YouTube content creator shouldn't be able to have "a Reddit"

I've been building a platform to target this specific thing. It seems like the biggest asset that creators are creating are the communities that form around them and their niche. In order for a creator to capitalize on this they currently tend to leverage a combination of different platforms like Patreon, Discord and Reddit with their community often times spread out amongst the different platforms. What we've done is combine everything into a singular place to allow them to offer their communities as a product alongside their content.

https://sociables.com/creators/

I wonder if part of the problem with this is due to how subreddits tend to be categorical in nature in that the moderators for a subreddit get to essentially own the discussion and narrative around that given thing. The issue with that is there is an expectation that there is no curating happening because nobody should have that much power to own and oversee over an entire topic.

I wonder if we will see a shift in engagement to smaller, more curated communities centred around the curators instead of discussion happening under broad sweeping discussion boards. Perhaps it's better for discussion to happen under categories within a community curated by somebody with intention. In this scenario, the expectation going in is that there would be a level of controlled oversight.

I've been working on a platform to help content creators offer their communities for this sort of thing where their communities can become a sort of privatized social network curated by them.

https://sociables.com/creators

Appreciate the reply. Did you have a chance to check out the platform? We are always looking for ways we can better tailor the platform to serve the needs of people like you.

Cheers

It seems like the biggest asset that creators are creating are the communities that form around them and their niche. The people who consume content within a niche tend to be very likeminded and often times quite willing to rally behind and support the bastions propelling the niches that they identify with. Even for smaller creators, I've seen time and time again that all you need is one or two highly dedicated and engaged fans to make being a creator an extremely lucrative endeavour.

I've been working on a platform to help content creators diversify their revenue streams and offer their communities that become a sort of privatized social network as one of their product offerings in addition to their content. The hope is to allow creators to better capture their community and monetize from their niche.

https://sociables.com/creators

In terms of monetization I think content creators are better served focusing on leveraging their reach to build up a community to support them instead of optimizing primarily for ad revenue. Platforms like YouTube have continuously shown that relying on automated ad systems is unreliable and puts your ability to monetize subject to the whims of the advertisers. Many established creators have wrongfully received demonetization strikes against their channels threatening their livelihood.

It seems like the biggest asset that creators are creating are the communities that form around them and their niche. The people who consume content within a niche tend to be very likeminded and often times quite willing to rally behind and support the bastions propelling the niches that they identify with. Even for smaller creators, I've seen time and time again that all you need is one or two highly dedicated and engaged fans to make being a creator an extremely lucrative endeavour.

I've been working on a platform to help content creators diversify their revenue streams and offer their communities as one of their product offerings in addition to their content. The hope is to allow creators to better capture their community and monetize from their niche.

https://sociables.com/creators

I think it's key for creators to diversify their income and generate revenue from different streams. This is especially true in light of platforms becoming increasingly restrictive and unpredictable with their content moderation policies. Relying solely on automated ad systems as a means of generating revenue leaves the creator susceptible to the algorithm. It seems like the biggest asset that creators are creating are the communties that form around them and their content. Even for smaller creators, I've seen time and time again that all you need is one or two highly dedicated and engaged fans to make being a creator an extremely lucrative endeavour.

I've been working on a platform to help creators diversify their revenue streams and focus on developing their community as an asset on top of just creating content. The hope is to try and bring more predictability in their ability to monetize. http://sociables.com/creators

I wonder if we will see a trend of moving away from algorithmic feeds and more towards services that allow for the humanization of the content aggregation process. I know from my personal habits, I have a list of about 5-10 different sub-reddits that I frequently visit to find content instead of the content coming directly to me. The people posting within those communities sort of act like a humanized algorithm for determining what content is worth seeing. I’ve noticed in particular that the communities of the content creators that I follow being some of the best aggregators for sharing content of interest to me. I find that the communities that form around the creators being some of the strongest and most tightly knit in the modern web.

I’ve actually been working on an app https://aurdia.com to better organize and facilitate the growth of the communities formed around content creators. I’m hoping to help build a healthier web less reliant on advertisements and the data collection that comes along with it.

Thanks for taking the time to read over it and providing that feedback.

Admittedly I'm not the most well versed in copy-writing and will do as you suggested to get someone who is to read over it in detail.

How did you find the overall structure and contents of the page? Did you find it was clear at conveying the messaging?

Cheers.

If you look at platforms like Twitch, Substack, and Patreon, I think it's pretty clear people are willing to entertain other models in large enough volume to support the livelihoods of the recipients. I do find it curious why there isn't a "paid" option from services like Facebook where you pay a monthly fee to essentially opt out of being their product opposed to user and not get targeted with ads. I guess in their case the monetization prospects from the hyper targeting they are able to do is probably too lucrative to even give people the option to opt out of.

I've been working on an app https://aurdia.com/creators/ to create an ecosystem of communities that provides multiple ways outside of advertisements for the community admins to get paid from the support of their members. I think there needs to be a movement away from people's data being sold as the product from these services to really improve the quality of what we experience on the web.