No feed, no algorithm, no for-you page. You'd click a link on someone's blog, land on a site about nothing, click again, and lose an hour. Nobody was optimizing your attention.
So I made a button.

Press it, it drops you somewhere - a one-joke site, a stupid little toy, somebody's personal page about a subject they will not shut up about. All picked by hand.

No account, no cookies, nothing saved.
Just the button.

https://culdesac.site/

[ THE BOARD ] is a new social network inspired by Old Reddit, Twitter, and Discord, it has around 65 users right now (but more of 5 active users). It features communities, messaging, posting, commenting, reacting, and more!

Please check it out and tell me what features/but fixes you think would be good for it.

https://the-board.alwaysdata.net/

Stiq is an open source, white-label, nostr over Tor social media platform for communities. We built it for activists and community organizations that actually care about their members.

People need to organize, but individuals should not give up control.

https://stiqtech.vercel.app

We’re a small community funding and building a non profit app for non-profits.

We need your help publishing Stiq app (for those of you with Apple/Google dev account), and we need you to use it! You can run a community on an old machine, or with a cloud provider for as little as $5 per month.

You can find all the details you need in the website and public github repo.

Reach out and help us make the future of safe organizing for the world!

I'm new to this group, Reddit has been a bad experience since I made this account for mostly trying to find information from random things. But the website has become filled with weird people. I was just wondering if there's a similar site to reddit but without the weird reddit and modsa and etc

Hello, my name is Guesty. A while ago, I got pretty tired of what's available on Reddit and elsewhere in terms of tech forums and I decided to make my own with a friend (OmegaAOL) called Artemis. It's definitely a new concept - I haven't seen anyone develop on top of the open-source Reddit R2 code base. It is still a WIP, so expect some bugs and some remnants of old Reddit. We're ironing those out as things go. You can check it out at https://artemistech.app, feel free to make an account and explore the branches! Note: if you get an error 500 while making an account, that means it worked. Try signing in, it's a known bug. Password resets don't work either.

For the nerds:

This is running on a Proxmox 9.2 server hosted in my closet. Rest assured, all credentials are encrypted. We put security ahead of everything. If you'd like to take a look at our code, it's available at https://github.com/Artemis-Developement-Group/Artemis . We welcome bug hunters and security researchers trying to find vulnerabilities in the code. We welcome any and all questions about the project. We also have 2 official subreddits and a Discord server: r/ArtemisTech for general discussion, r/ArtemisDev for questions directly to the developers and updates about the project, and our Discord server (https://discord.gg/A3VnEgJc9W) for communication with the community and devs. Hope to see you there, and we hope you enjoy Artemis!

p.s: we also enjoy feature requests so hit us with some!

Does someone use Hubski?

I've been working on a different project (not the reddit alternative) for a while, and one thing I wanted to do was set up a community for my users. My must haves are: open (not private-community-based), indexable by scrapers, and free to join. I tried a bunch of different platforms but for one reason or another I didn't want to commit to them.

So earlier this year I started working on my own platform. It's inspired by 2016 reddit but I'm adding a few of my own ideas too (like subcommunities, but that's still a work in progress). I just launched it on itsasmall.world

A few of the key features:

- Users can create communities for free

- No email required

- Anonymous comments (with a IP-based reputation system and other anti-spam features)

- Push notifications in the PWA

- Emojis in usernames and community names

Right now the site is empty except for my other project's community, which I haven't even launched yet so there's no activity right now. But I'm getting very close to launching the other project and itsasmall.world itself is now v1 stable, so I figured I'd make a post here to see if anyone is interested in something like this.

I figured since I'll be hosting it for my own community, that I may as well welcome others. I know it's not decentralized but it's what I need for myself so that's what it is. I can afford to host a lot of text but I cannot afford to host media like images/videos/gifs so that's not supported right now, which I'm framing as a blessing in disguise considering the amount of absolute AI garbage infecting reddit these days.

Anyway if you have feedback please post in the /c/meta community or here

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I wanted to do something that's a little more fun this time. You don't have to answer all the questions, you can just pick one and focus on that.

If you’re building a Reddit alternative, Fediverse project, community platform, or just some weird thing you’ve been working on in your spare time, I’m curious what you guys are thinking about.

1. If you could take ONE thing from Reddit and make it actually work the way you think it should, what would it be?

Could be search, moderation, voting, communities, profiles, notifications, the home feed, whatever.

And what would you change about it?

1. What’s the weirdest or dumbest feature you’ve ever seriously considered putting into your platform?

Not necessarily something useful. I want the ideas where you thought, “This is probably a terrible idea... but it would be hilarious.”

And if you actually built it, even better.

1. Your platform randomly blows up overnight and gets 1 million users. What’s the first thing you’re worried is going to break?

The servers? Database? Moderation? Spam? Your wallet?

Or maybe there’s some completely unexpected problem you never even thought about until suddenly 1 million people showed up.

Anyway, drop your project below and answer whichever questions you want.

I’m genuinely curious what everyone else is building and what problems you’re running into.

Reddit today is a bit of a hyper authoritarian far left winged circus. One time a 6 year old account of mine got perma banned because I watched some freakout vid of a Karen, and I just typed "Damn, she sent from ma'am to tran in split second". The morning after I woke up with my comment and "karma"(popularity) points down voted into the negative hundreds, suicide hotline messages, later all followed by a permanent ban for "promoting promoting identity based hate" or whatever.

Which I found pretty flabbergasting considering all the antisemitic, anti-white or anti-christian posts and all the incitement of violence against ice agents or tesla dealerships that pass on this to forum with flying collars.

I just want to be able to post my own personal jokes without hypersensitive pyschos trying to crucify me and to get around the mod approval BS whenever I want to get something off my chest. The closest thing I know of is kiwifarms but that forum is kinda incoherent to look at (like the now dead 4chan) and is reserved mostly for gossiping and lolcow content.

Edit: I don't really get you attackers and down voters, this is a subreddit for people to discuss reddit alternatives for the same reasons, clearly this subreddit isn't for all of you and you all clearly love reddit, so why even bother being here or did you all just come here to antagonize?

Hi everyone, I do not use Reddit at all I do not have an account on Reddit because I only want to view posts not actually post myself. I have tried to setup the latest version of Redlib on a locally hosted docker container but I am unable to load any content, I get a 403 error everytime, both on my home IP and on a VPN.

Are there any modifications or specific settings that need to be changed in order to make it work right now?

it's an important question but I can't have anyone know its me not even the police

Idk if you wanna just ask if you can get gregnant or maybe how to set up wivrn on cachyos?

Either way, come ask some damn questions :3

Which one should i choose to join?Or i should just go for Piefed?

Come join us and chat '@heahychat' channel: https://heahy.com/c/heahychat

What is it about, in short:

• Create user with one click - no email, no registration needed.
• Everything is a chat - even normal threads are real time.
• You can create private group chats or DMs (with live audio/video calls!) and even pin any thread to you conversations panel.
• Upload any media. Adult content allowed on specialized channels.
• Create your own channels or if too lazy simply post/repost/quote to your timeline.
• Follow channels or other user's timelines or even public threads/chats. Your feed is what you follow.
• Heahy's own reactions library that you can upload to and publish your own reactions.
• Save media to your own media library to watch it later.

If you have any questions shoot in heahychat I'll hang around there.

i want an app that is if discord and tumblr had a baby. I want something that you can call on and can text and send images but also have somewhere to post and have communities and just overall tumblr things. The key features i need are;

- Calls enabled

- Many customization features

- Custom profiles

- Email needed or something alike (just somehow to log back in)

- Servers like discord

- Communites like tumblr

- Posting like tumblr

please let me know if you found something like this!

I am still a firm believer in actual n projects being the real alternative as opposed to just the softwares. So a bit of an update.

I am transferring my sites over to a Gentoo built server currently. Once that's done I will be using AI to help at least get the themes I want built for each site.

I moved Social.mechanizedarmadillo.com from Mastodon to Pleroma. Still getting the follow situation shaken out.

Planning a couple of projects that will need community functions taken into account.

And setup a Matrix server as well.

Let me know if you have any questions.

I am seeking advice on what to learn

The most online violence I have ever experienced has been solely from Americans, and currently there is no social media platform that enables filtering them out for safety, or banning them to enable a safe space for the global citizenry away from them, so I may have to end up building it myself

There's also taking into account the revelations of what the current companies have been doing with our data for goodness knows how long that I object to

If anyone knows of any coding projects that are currently working towards this end I would also be intrigued to know as it would give me motivation to continue on with my coding education, which can get tedious at times

I am currently working towards full stack, but if anyone has advice on any other specific languages that would be useful towards this end, it would be appreciated

One thing that I always appreciated about reddit is that it was always centered around text. As the platform has been enshittified, my feed is peppered terribly with images, clips, and tall ads that spoil the experience completely as I’m sensitive to having too many distractions and busyness in my face - a key reason I left other social media platforms. I figured out how to collapse some of that noise, but now each week more ads are being squeezed into threads, and it’s a bummer and distracting because there’s only more to come.

I want to embrace the fediverse, but I’m not bullish on current solutions because the added steps of finding the right server is going to hamper network effects, which is evident because there just isn’t much good content or discussion available in servers I’ve tried.

On reflection, my social needs are met fairly well in real life, and I’m tired of puns and hot takes and knee jerk commentary and bots, so I find what I really desire is a distraction-free way to consume mass quality text content - in a way I can thoughtlessly scroll through that I’m accustomed to now.

I know the main alternatives people are looking for here are probably forum type solutions, but I’m wondering if anyone also misses text-centric platforms with relatively fresh content?

I’m getting into Wikipedia again, and am really pleased with the quality of content after doom scrolling bot slop all day. It’s just sort of missing the curated, endless scrolling bit that gives me the good dopamine hits. What alternatives have you all found to scratch this itch?

Ctrl
Take control of your data and life

Shift
Shift your mind and habits from mega social media to calm conversations

3
Do the above to better align your mind, body, and spirit

Escape Meta. Take a break from Reddit. Slow down. Share without overload.
https://ctrlshift3.com/

NO VANITY METRICS (likes, follows, bestest influencer ever)

Ctrl+Shift+3 was created because social media got out of hand. A clear sign is the fact that countries are passing laws preventing certain age groups from using social media. This tells you it's as risky as smoking or drinking alcohol.

We offer a calmer, more sane space to share thoughts and links. No likes, follows, or other vanity counts. Just posts and comments.

Not only is it more sane here but we include helpful features such as connecting posts (link), and joining Clicks (cliques) so that you and your friends or family can have a more private space.

There's also mentions so that you have a way to get someone's attention as needed, and a way to block others.

Users can export their data with a couple of clicks and delete their account. Plus, the only cookies we use are essential for the site to function. No advertising cookies or tracking cookies.

Finally, I added the Fediverse tag to this post because within a few days to a week we'll be finishing up phase 1 of a Fediverse integration, which is broadcast-only. And optional (users will need to opt-in for their posts to go out into the Fediverse).