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Have a read of the Beehaw mission statement and you’ll see the platform is committed to avoiding the “hate speech” and “disinformation” that’s prevalent elsewhere. The communities available right now cover everything from neurodivergence and people of color to literature and gardening, so you’re sure to find something of interest here."
9gag is a decent alternative if all you used reddit for was browsing meme subs and never commented. But like, I’m pretty sure that that demographic has already been using the official app.
I did not even know Digg still existed. Use to be my go to place until they ruined the site. I think that was a monetization thing too. Cannot remember much about it or why I left.
I don’t even know what Slashdot really is, but I think for a lot of people 9gag will do well as a Reddit replacement. Some people just want dumb memes, doesn’t really matter where they come from.
Slashdot is the pre-cursor to digg and reddit in a lot of ways. It’s problem was people wanted freedom to create communities and submit posts whereas /. wanted to be able to control what appeared on their site. Both digg and reddit were responses to that aspect of slashdot. That, and their moderation system tried to be democratic, sharing the load amongst users, rather than installing mods (which ultimately was a failure imo).
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Did they really suggest 9gag and slashdot as alternatives? Might as well tell us to go back to digg
9gag is a decent alternative if all you used reddit for was browsing meme subs and never commented. But like, I’m pretty sure that that demographic has already been using the official app.
Their last suggestion is actually Digg, so it looks like they got that covered lmao
I did not even know Digg still existed. Use to be my go to place until they ruined the site. I think that was a monetization thing too. Cannot remember much about it or why I left.
I don’t even know what Slashdot really is, but I think for a lot of people 9gag will do well as a Reddit replacement. Some people just want dumb memes, doesn’t really matter where they come from.
Slashdot is the pre-cursor to digg and reddit in a lot of ways. It’s problem was people wanted freedom to create communities and submit posts whereas /. wanted to be able to control what appeared on their site. Both digg and reddit were responses to that aspect of slashdot. That, and their moderation system tried to be democratic, sharing the load amongst users, rather than installing mods (which ultimately was a failure imo).
I mean, they actually DID suggest digg, too.
Wow, I gave up on the article after seeing slashdot and 9gag. Since I’m too lazy to go back was fark included as an option?
Nope. It did have Bluesky for some reason, though. Just a weird list in general.
Wow, Digg is still around?
Myspace is, too. Seems like these sites rarely just die, they fade into something extant but irrelevant.