After Reddit and HN which is the best sane and content friendly discussion site?
Both of them are great platforms but we need alternatives (for the sheer reason of increased competition, if not anything else).
I'm not a huge fan of "design heavy" platforms like quora, twitter and FB, I mostly prefer "content heavy" platforms like reddit and HN but unfortunately it doesn't seem like more people prefer them. There are hardly any active ones on any platforms apart from these two. I know about hubski and raddle but they are mostly empty these days (at least for my tags/interests). Do you know of any other good ones? Tildes is new, still a bit small, but seems nice. The docs give a nice rundown of what's important to Tildes. https://docs.tildes.net/ (I have some invites available if you need one.) Tildes looks like exactly what I've been looking for - I'd appreciate an invite. I'd love an invite. Metafilter has often been suggested here but I never got used to its format. It's been a while though. If you search here for "HackerNews for $subject", you may get lucky. PS.: HN has been the best place for civil discussions for me. besides increased competition, what are you missing? What one really needs is interest specific forums. There is a lot to recommend their existence, and participating in them. Isn't that what reddit basically is? Reddit is a conglomerate of them, not an interest specific forum itself What's the advantage of an interest-specific forum over a subreddit? Linear discussion? No upvotes. There is https://lobste.rs but that often just has what hit the top page on here. If you're looking for new content then I'd suggest looking at research paper sites like https://arxiv.org or other eprint archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Eprint_archives I find that the quality of discussion on Lobsters is much better though, and not having 600 comments on a post makes it easier to discus things as well (in general, smaller communities > large communities). And the system encourages good faith discussion not just “I disagree, downvote until the hive mind is protected” like HN gets. I've been reading lobsters for a while now, an invite would be appreciated, looks like a nice community. Send me an email (look in my profile), I'll invite you. just sent you one appreciated! I've been reading lobster.rs for a while, and it seems great!
Unfortunately, I can't find anyone to get an invite :( Just for everyone's info, it's lobste.rs not lobster.rs IndieHackers perhaps: https://www.indiehackers.com I continue to find great content on HN, but the quality of the conversation/comments has unfortunately decreased significantly over the years for me. Unfortunately it appears to be a trade-off of scale vs. quality. Lobste.rs is an alternative that hasn't passed that point yet, so I recommend it. Would love an invite if anybody is inclined. Send me an email for an invite.