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Redditors of Tildes, which subreddits are you missing the most during the blackout?
I am really struggling without r/selfhosted. I truly believe it is, by far, the best community for self-hosters that I have come across. What I am missing most of all is, whenever I search for questions to self-hosting problems - especially for smaller projects - the answers are nearly always found within posts on that sub.
At least with things like programming, there is stackoverflow and a bunch of other small communities.
I'm going to end up going to Discord to find my solutions, which is the next big community. But it means having to go on there and ask the question (that has probably been asked hundreds of times before), rather than just searching the issue.
For me it's the local city subs. I was a part of a few of them, including where I live now and where I use to live before. While the discussions here are nice, seeing what's happening around me was always useful.
Yeah this is the big one for me.
I refuse to have a Facebook so I’m kind of left stranded with the happenings.
Yeah. The subreddit for my current town was really great about keeping updated on happenings around the area, and I've seen some of the prettiest photos of the last big city I lived in on their subreddit. There's something that will be hard to replicate without Facebook. I refuse to set foot on there unless it's under duress, so I definitely understand!
There was a subreddit about my hometown, but it wasn't very active, just foreigners asking what to do here. I thought to be stranded about what surrounded me was just natural. I completely forgot about Facebook.
I'm with you there on Facebook, refused to use it for years, but now that I have kids, its pretty much the only place where you can be on groups with other parents to arrange events ,etc.
I would give it consideration if anything, just for the groups on there. You can always have just not add anyone in real life that you don't want or care to see. That's pretty much what I did and its been working out well. I go on there for the groups.
This is basically how I use FB now. There are some very useful groups for applying to Middle School and High School for my city that I have been visiting for my kids. I'm also lurking in the applying to and paying for college groups. And there's one group of moms that I visit now and again (although I mainly just hang out IRL with one friend from that group). I rarely glance at my feed, maybe for a minute or two. I'm there just for the info from the groups, then I bounce.
Look for a local discord server. I've had some luck with this.
I'm just not a fan of discord, tbh. I much prefer a forum/message board style interface to a chat style.
That's completely fair it's much harder to keep up on anything on discord. It's constantly full of chatter which can get in the way. But I am finding it a good way to find events and talk to people near me about local issues so it's got that going for it. If you find anything like what you're looking for let me know I'd be very interested in seeing it
You could suggest to the Discord server moderators to put on a "forum" channel, where people can post Reddit-like threads.
Discords shortcoming is that you can't really join a conversation unless it's actively happening. Otherwise you get left behind. So it's not conductive for information posting
And it's incredibly hard to get caught up on a conversation that's already in-swing, if the room is busy and everything is getting bumped rapidly.
While the subdivision necessary to keep two or three separate conversations from overwhelming each other fragments community in some annoying ways - I don't really like needing to check 30+ rooms on four or five separate servers just to get caught up on the days' local news.
My city’s discord seems to be a handful of people talking about things that don’t relate to the city. I’m admittedly not super into discord as a platform either though.
In the features thread, I've asked for location based groups. My suggestion is to start with a country level first.
This for me as well. I'm always lurking in my city's subreddit.
I can relate. I mod our local city sub r/lexington. We have 3 mods, the creator, myself, and one we brought on from a local Discord server. They buckled under the tension to go public. I should have been more outspoken.
The atmosphere we found ourselves in was a "hate if we do, and hate if we don't" type situation, and there was no winning either way. Local subreddits are vital to communities... Hell I had the best weekend of the summer so far last Friday because a pop-up comedy show was being thrown less than 1,000 ft from my house I came across on the sub.
r/nyc also stayed open during the blackout. I’m not sure what their decision making process was but as every other outlet for local news is terrible, at least we have that.
Please let me know if you find a good substitute for the NYC related subs. Maybe Tildes can create some location topics as another poster suggested, stating with country, then getting more granular.
Right now (and not just bc Reddit is falling apart), I use Instagram (following accounts that post about free things to do and new or underrated places to visit in NYC) and emails Isubscribe to (directly from the cultural institutions or organizations, but also from The Skint, Time Out New York, and kid friendly blogs like Mommy Poppins and A Child Grows in Brooklyn). I also visit the website Gothamist, which has an arts and culture section. I may have to also visit City-Data. There used to be a few Brooklyn centric forums but I can't seem to find them
I see people mentioning local city subs being a major a sub Reddit that most people seem to miss
Honestly any subreddit with useful information. I started to regularly google "thing or problem reddit" because it brought me the best solutions for the problems I had. That is the biggest loss for me. The hyper SEO optimized sites broke Google for me.
The effects of this cannot be overstated, especially for anyone who remembers "the before days" of the web. Any time I am searching for any useful discussion about a product or any sort of topic, I really can't just search for it anymore, because all I'm going to find are content-generated SEO sites that probably don't have any useful info, are infuriating to get to any info that might actually be useful, and are almost certainly not neutral or up front about about their biases. I can't find actual discussion from experts (at best you might get a very sanitized expert writing that you should consult an expert - great, very useful).
I used to rant about this over on reddit every so often, but this is the consequence of the "shrinking web." Undoubtedly the number of sites has grown enormous, but the content has shrunk down to the point where almost all of it is contained on a very small handful of massive sites, and those sites are increasingly walled and controlled. The idea that this would happen is practically unthinkable from a late 90s, early 2000s web mindset, where you could only imagine that there would be communities scattered wide across the web. Other than commerce/services (i.e. your doctor's portal, etc) types of sites, how many websites do you actually visit?
I find myself using DuckDuckGo and Bing more and more. DuckDuckGo lets me search in quotes (Google likes to ignore them). And it tends to give me what I'm looking for on the first page instead of ads, ads, ads.
Bing is good for image searches and seems less ad-infested than Google.
I'm maybe in the minority, but I still visit quite a few different sites. Mainly forums for specific interests (metal, opera, language learning) and news (ProPublica comes to mind). There's still good stuff out there. Just takes a little digging to find it sometimes.
DDG has actually been pretty good for finding reference images for me. If you study art or need something to be a particular kind of way, it seems to be more reliable there. Obviously it's not nearly up there with pop culture and "research."
really ? I had pretty terrible experience with using qoutes in duckduckgo, and sadly it looks they still ignore the "-" operator (idk what to call it) which I use a lot :(
I don't usually try to exclude terms on DDG. I tried it just now and wasn't happy with the results. One of the test searches:
"once upon a time" -series
This worked fine on Google, but DDG still gave me an IMDB page about the show as the top result. The rest of the results weren't much better.
So I looked into their search operators and found this. It says that using - will give you less results about that thing. Not exclude it completely. That's a big shortcoming in my opinion.
yeah, definitely, qoutes don't work all that well either sadly. I exclude
best,article,blogandnewswhich filter out a lot of noise/blogspam and I get better results, excluding .com (-site:.com) also helps which fortunately works on DDG.Yep Google is next to useless for finding information. Your better off searching YouTube for a video on the topic these days. Unless you want to buy cheap Chinese crap google is dead. As well as ppc being a huge scam due to bot clicks it's bad for the business and the end user.
I used to think that but YouTube is turning into a bit of a dead end too.
Tons of videos that go on a ramble about something sort of close to what you want but not actually giving the information you want, and every time you try a new video it's more ads to watch.
I'm just exhausted of having to sit through intros that are totally unnecessary before people can just start talking about the thing I am watching the video for.
Especially annoying is when you get video results that are essentially people bragging or showing off that they figured out how to do something, but not explaining how they did it or anything in enough detail for you to learn.
Yes 10 minute intros and sponsor spots are annoying especially when your covered in oil with a disassembled car and you just want to know the socket size for a bolt you can't see... And now your learning all about raycons
SponsorBlock has been a great boon to my YouTube enjoyment. It's very customizable, so you can have it prompt you to skip those segments, or just automatically do so. Available for both Chrome and Firefox.
I can't believe I used YouTube before SponsorBlock. It's probably saved me hundreds of hours at this point.
To me the fascinating part has been watching the AI written content creep out to infest the rest of the web.
Used to be some news sites were clearly AI written, but that was about it. Then it started getting tendrils into hardware recommendations. Recently I've noticed one of my hobbies (fish keeping) is suddenly inundated with BS AI generated content about whatever fish I might be researching.
it's insanely frustrating. I miss quality results and articles at the top that were written by people with knowledge and a passion on the subject.
It is amazing to me how many people naturally started phrasing their search terms to include reddit without being told to do so. I started doing that a while back as well. Goes to show how good a resource reddit was/is.
Makes me long for the old forum days. Used to be able to look up problem in a video game, for example, and you'd get links to helpful forum posts or maybe an ign article, or a random blog. Now it's all a million different seemingly auto generated sites and articles that are full of bullshit that doesn't actually help anybody, or isn't specific enough to help. Doesn't help that discord kind of replaced forums too, so now everything is tucked away in private servers. Interesting that as time has gone on it's starting to get harder to find good information on the internet, not easier.
That's literally what happened. The first 25+ results are AI-written articles that don't make any sense and never get to the point just to shove ads in your face. They do a really good job hiding that it was written by AI, too. They put an author name, author's profile photo, really current article date (fake), fake comments, and everything else they can do to fool you into reading to the end before you realize you read absolute gibberish and the advertisers got a chance to squeeze you for every penny they could. I use adblockers, but you know what I mean.
I am not sure if I would personally attribute all on even most of the blame on SEO. Google is obviously processing the query somehow behind the scenes, completely stripping specificity away. It feels like it just puts the query in a bucket based on other queries and ignores the intent because it knows best. Combined with (seemingly)ignoring operators(+, -, "") searching for anything not shopping/business/mainstream is at best frustrating unless you already know where the content is located in which case the results are ok. I also have no idea how personalization of the results would tie into it.
Personally I tried several different search engines over the years but none actually seem to simply return the results for the query.
This is also starting to branch out into other specialty search engines (e.g. Westlaw Edge), although with those professional-oriented tools you can still force syntax via an advanced search and control characters.
Oh I would agree. Good point! I used to be better with googleing. It seems like the results don't match the query, even with quotes and in/exclusions. I explicitly search for words and they just dont show up in the results. The algo seems to be more helpful with generic questions. Maybe Im not the target group anymore..
If we had a search engine just for software engineering that is optimized just for that, I would already be super happy.
https://phind.com/ is pretty software-focused.
But my favorite one is https://kagi.com/ . Quotes work, and super personalizable (can choose whether listicles, discussions, or shopping appears in your search results). It's paid, but the amount of time I save each month easily surpasses the amount of money I'm giving them.
Full disclosure, I am a paying customer of Kagi also but have no other kind of investment, parasocially or monetarily in them - I feel like actually paying for a product means you're less likely to end up with something that turns against its users somewhere down the line, or at the very least the competitors are all free for the most part, so you can just vote with your wallet and walk away.
That being said - the results are slightly better, but I think the problem overall is that the good part of the internet is rapidly being dwarfed/dying to linkrot or lack of use. You can certainly filter out the bullshit very well with Kagi's tools but I wouldn't say it's night and day. Fundamentally the internet just feels less useful than it did ten years ago.
Yeah, same here paying customer and all that. I guess I am too young to have a good reference on search quality 10 years ago, but to me it feels like the signal to noise ratio back then was higher. In the present there's more signal (and info available overall), but a whole lot more noise.
For me the difference is the major difference is the huge amount of seo spam on Google. Maybe kagi results aren't "good", but they cut out a lot of the negative time wasting links that make searching a slog.
Yeah, for sure. Being able to downrank certain offender domains / content types helps a lot with surfacing the information that is actually still out there.
Thanks :)
Kagi look really cool! I would be happy to pay for a good search engine, and will try it out further.
Phind seems to be really slow in generating a proper response. Although, the responses seem correct.
https://www.phind.com/search?q=Duplication%20API%20DirectX%20c%2B%2B&source=searchbox For example, is giving me 1-2 words per second for me.
Just to give a small report, I have bought a Kagi subscription. I havent missed Google in a second. It does its job very well and I like that I can limit my searches to certain categories like Research and Programming. The programming category could include some more sites, but I'm very happy already.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion, it was really helpful! :)
Yaaaay! Glad I could help!
I really feel this! I just recently started brewing kombucha for example, and went to check out of there was a subreddit for that. There is! They had a handy wiki with non cluttered, basic information, and tons of posts and comments from new people and more experienced alike so I could get a feel for what to look for and where to experiment. Sure I could just look up how to get started and use a recipe someone posted on a blog, but there's no comments or ways to verify misinformation or helpful tips from actual people.
I find that Reddit is in the top few results anyways without adding "Reddit".
Poking around the web this morning trying to pull up info on some things I'm not finding answers as quick because Reddit just doesn't work right now for any of the subs that matter.
It works that way for me sometimes, but I figured it was because I visited Reddit so many times the cookie magic on the backend said "He probably wants a Reddit result, so give it to him after a few ads disguised as results."
Personal preference might impact it (IDK) but reddit seems to be ranking fairly high for most people. My wife (not a redditor) even mentioned noticing the blackout due to google search(es).
Fyi, a lot of it can already be found on the internet archive's wayback machine :) Both old and new reddit is archived in my experience.
So if you come across google results that lead to reddit you can often still view it. Has the added bonus of reducing traffic to reddit, which they are very concerned about apparantly ;)
Good point, I use the wayback machine not so often because it was always very slow for me, but I'm happy that it exists.
And there is also the Google cache of course.
It would be cool if people would setup a performant search system around the Reddit archive https://tracker.archiveteam.org/reddit/
You can also click on the 3 dots and open up a cached version of the site if you the sub is blacked out. It works for most links I've found if I just need to see the info to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Googling things and getting tons of reddit results really sucked, but I was usually able to leverage archive.org - but honestly, it already happened before - reddit threads and comments get deleted and still show up on google results, resulting in deadlinks from search results themselves.
It all reminds me a lot of the old web when websites would constantly break links, etc, and search results were constantly dead ends.
I'm feeling your pain. I finally decided to try out Ubuntu on my laptop and usually I would just append site:reddit.com to my search whenever I have a question, but EVERY linux subreddit is private right now. Now if I'm having a problem or need to find out how to do something I have to rely on the documentation and stackoverflow
My mix of progressive & lgbt news and snark subs. Shit gets bleak in the midwest, and collectively making fun of it made me less afraid.
You and I seem to be on similar pages. I'm in NYC at the moment, but am relocating to the midwest-ish (what the hell is Oklahoma?) in about a month and am eager/apprehensive about what the queer scene there will be. I spent a decade in Chicago so I'm familiar with how tenuous the midwest's progressiveness can be.
I was counting on being able to rely on /r/Tulsa for at least some guidance, but I guess I'll do it the old fashioned way and just hit up the coffee shops once I'm there.
I'm in OH, but I'll do my best :)
Good ole boys/rednecks pose a very legitimate threat in most of the midwest and south. They are absolutely dangerous to anyone that isn't also a straight, white, cis man that pisses them off. They are very often in law enforcement, too, that is NOT just a song lyric lol
Just avoid the churchgoing crowd. Sunday afternoons are a bad time to drive, eat out, and shop.
Most of the areas I've lived (midwest & south) have a nice, friendly handful of bars & hangouts, usually intersecting with a tattoo or art scene.
I've also found queer folks in the midwest gravitate to bookstores & thrift stores.
Tulsa seems like it could have a really cool community, I hope you like it there. What brings you out west, if i may ask?
I've got a sibling going through a divorce who also owns/operates a medium-sized business; she needs an extra adult around to help manage the house & kids so she doesn't get spread too thin.
I'm a child-free, middle-aged New Yorker who doesn't have anything pressing keeping me in the city, so I'm basically moving down there for 6-12mos to roleplay Who's The Boss. :)
That sounds great! I hope Tulsa treats you well. I'm also middle age & childfree haha (we are similar!) and watch my nephew sometimes; the aunt/uncle gig is the LIFE.
I'd definitely take a year in a new city given the opportunity. I hope to run into you again and hear about Tulsa! Have a great time :)
Oklahoma is geographically midwest, socially southern.
Oklahoma is geographically and socially southern.
Yes - I was following the conversations around the new Duggar documentary on r/fundiesnarkuncensored before the blackout. They even had an AMA with one of the people from the documentary. I hope there's a second season.
I dipped into that sub every so often. I've never seen any Duggar shows but the fundie/quiverfull life is fascinatingly terrifying! I might check out a doc.
Good snark subs :'( RIP
I've come across a lot of these so-called "snark" subreddits and a lot of them seem extremely mean-spirited and harassing, usually targeting one individual. What's the appeal of these kinds of subreddits?
That's not my thing. The ones i enjoy are 'punching up'; they snark about politicians that say bigoted things, or laws that make being queer more dangerous.
I am married to a trans woman, and the US is a scary place to be right now. The appeal is that i have a community that cares.
Anything that lets us escape the Red State Horror just for a minute. I'm in Texas, and it seems like every day the state government is coming up with a new way to make life here even more miserable, dangerous, and expensive.
I'm sorry. As weird as in gets here, I'm relieved i don't live in FL or TX. They are just racing to the bottom.
At this point, I think we're digging through the floor.
For me it would be the subreddits with boatloads of experts - that also had a weekly no dumb questions threads. They aren't all huge, but they have high quality content.
yeah i miss r/askhistorians... that's a great resource
This is one of the reasons reddit will survive, there is no easy quick way to gather groups like this. People are also a bit lazy to switch.
There's a pretty large contingent of us here, complete with Decks.
I am just so glad we don't have this type of community here.
I do agree. I've been very happy with the discourse here, and I was hesitant to even include it in my comment. It wouldn't have felt like an honest comment if I hadn't included it, however.
That's one thing I was thinking about. New users/accounts there tend to not commit to conversations. A lot of the comments tend to become toxic right away and if you ever go back to the thread couple months later, some of the accounts were deleted.
I only know about some of the shady monetizing in Fortnite that happened like 5 years ago. I am curious though! What else has Epic done that warrants a subreddit like that?
They made a game client that wasn't Steam, and performed the most heinous crime of financing games in exchange for timed exclusivity.
Edit: autocorrect
What do you mean by this sorry?
Epic paid publishers to not put their games on Steam for a year.
It's a typo, it should be "timed exclusivity".
As part of Epic's push into PC gaming, they bought the exclusive rights to sell particular games in exchange for a whole lot of money upfront, to the point that a lot of developers said that PC ports or even the games as a whole would not have been possible to make without that money up front. This rubbed a lot of Gamers the wrong way, because they were used to everything being available on Steam, and now they had to deal with buying games on different storefronts and being forced to purchase games from a publisher that they would rather not deal with (Or wait for the exclusivity deal to run out.)
I'm aware of Valve and Steam's good reputation but... Why is that a bad thing? Competition is good, surely.
at least for me, it was mainly the fact that epic doesnt care about linux gaming at all. On windows it might be different, but on linux, steam and itch.io are the only platforms that care about linux, and steam is the leader of the pack with proton. Even if a game doesnt release for linux, if its on steam, I can probably still play it.
That. And I'm pretty sure they promised Linux compat and then didn't deliver. Nowadays, the only reason (iirc) I can't play Satisfactory on Linux is the Epic social integration, even on the steam version.
Also add in that many games were already on the Steam storefront and then yoinked to be put in Epic Games exclusively. Also their storefront were apparently broken and offering minimal features when they were pushing so aggressively.
UPlay and Origin are known quantities. I know they suck. Everyone agrees that EA and Ubi suck. There's no reason to complain about them, because it's widely agreed. Epic was new, and didn't make the situation any better.
Not sure if they've fixed their shit by now. TBH I haven't really had a look since they launched.
cc: @toric,
I haven't had any issues using Heroic Launcher or Lutris using Linux for Epic Games, and Satisfactory is cleared through Protondb. Don't want to say it's not an issue, but there are options available, and folks are running that game on the Steam Deck pretty well.
https://www.protondb.com/app/526870
The pain points were that the games they were following were now on a storefront they wanted no part of, and were not available on the program that already had the rest of their library. The consolidation of storefronts wasn't that big a concern to people with that much buy-in to Steam already. There was already this client diaspora going on that people weren't the biggest fan of, Epic threw a lot of money around to make it work in their direction, people had a very visible target to unload on.
Edit: Retooled post to be less ranty and more informative.
I refuse to use Epic because there were a large number of security/privacy issues when the platform launched... I haven't looked to see if any of that was addressed.
In addition, too many games I was looking forward to announced release dates everywhere, and then later sneakily turned that into Epic-exclusive periods and THEN wider release... I've not bought any of those games. The fault there's isn't on epic, since someone has to make the decision on the publisher/dev side... but I won't give them money.
In addition to other complaints about the paid exclusivity, the Epic client was also at one point caught snooping Steam user data, like friends lists and game ownership etc.
Epic responded and said it's purpose was mostly for their importing features, but anyway, I think most of the information on that is here.
There's also a bit of friction with Tim Sweeney's combative behaviour on social media, with a bit of a "where Steam goes left, we go right" development trajectory, (for example when Steam said Web3 / crypto games had no place on Steam, Tim tweeted to immediately welcome them) and also some concerns about significant investment from Tencent. The storefront / client itself is missing many consumer-friendly features (most commonly mentioned is a shopping cart, but I hear there's much more) and the general tone of Tim's comments on EGS's direction relative to the overall industry implies it's focus is to serve publishers' interests instead of consumers. In a time where the publisher-consumer relationship is more deteriorated today than it ever has been, that kind of positions a lot of gamers antagonistically towards Epic.
Personally, I agree with the general anti-Epic Games sentiment, but r/fuckepic was pretty toxic in execution, as you'd see a lot of threads where someone would detail a new problem they had with an Epic support trainwreck or something of that nature, and replies would carry a tone like "you got what you deserved for using EGS, fool" instead of "that's super unfortunate, thanks for sharing your experience, more to add to our warning sign." I would have preferred the subreddit act like the latter.
Yeah. The start of that sub was legitimately a 'can we have a place where we don't just get obliterated by downvotes for our valid criticisms.' It was incredibly bad around 2019 when Epic was really starting to spread into social media, and especially bad when they were using pre-made ad campaigns and blasting discussions with propaganda during their Epic v. Apple court stuff. So the sub started with good intentions, as it was a place in which grievances couldn't be touched.
It did, however, sour into a space where people mindlessly dumped their thoughts about Epic. It wasn't a place of genuine discussion, but instead a cesspool of arguing and whining.
I don't want a place like that here. I think that would undermine the entire feel of community this place clearly has attempted to curate for a long time, and as someone new to the community I would hate to be part of undermining it. But it was definitely a backbone that felt good to have when some were quick to dismiss and bury the genuine complaints with straw-man arguments about how it's just another launcher.
I kind of think the root of the issue is that r/fuckepic is a subreddit centered around a string of news items, and while there's a definite pattern in Epic fiascos, there's going to be times where there's not really a lot more to talk about as that news runs its course.
In a way, this is why I think being able to make any subreddit about anything, even extremely niche topics that are basically a news item instead of a categorical interest, actually leads to these sort-of-dead subreddits full of people who banded together over being mad at something that's old news now, causing the "old news, you should've known" hostile reply culture within.
I don't know exactly how granular groups or topics are meant to go on tildes, but I think something like r/fuckepic (in scope if not tone) couldn't become one. I think the tagging system limits extreme niches from becoming their own groups / topics permanently, which means when something's no longer a current news item, there doesn't remain a place to "force" conversation about an old topic needlessly.
I miss Imaginary Slice of Life, Art, and Drawing so much! Many of the artists were also on twitter or instagram, but I don’t use either. Maybe it’s time to go back to deviant art.
For me: Local subs, work related stuff, and subs for niche shows that had a decent sized community. I still get the local stuff via an RSS feed, but it doesn’t feel quite the same.
I miss the drama of /r/amitheasshole. It was a nice break from work when I needed it.
I know in the future I'll miss the support of /r/raisedbynarcisists.
In fall I'll miss /r/cfb, but at least they have a Discord.
I'll miss the random positivity of /r/mademesmile. Again, glad they have a Discord.
I'll miss a lot of the random videos and memes and sharing with friends.
It'll be weird not to run to Reddit for instant updates and opinions on whatever the next big news thing is.
I had to unsubscribe from /r/mademesmile a couple months ago because it would make me deeply sad. It took me a while to verbalize why that was, until I found /r/orphancrushingmachine.
What's the CFB Discord? I went through a lot of subs checking for a Discord before deleting my account and must have missed that one
See you in there!
https://discord.gg/ypMrNDQV
This is the biggest one for me, I relied on reddit and my carefully curated subreddits to provide the fastest updates possible on a variety of topics and news, and be able to jump into the comments conversation as things happened in the world in "real-time"
In order:
These are the subs that I spend the most time in and have learned a lot from. Especially r/skiing and r/cycling. Though some subs that I frequent are not participating in the black out (r/politics) I have noticed that I don't actually miss that steaming cesspit of hostility and anger.
I think we're all better of without r/coys.
Just kidding of course! :)
That might really be true. r/coys changed a ton from when I started using it; most notably after the Champions League run. It's a pretty toxic place right now.
I find most fanbase subs turn mostly toxic at a large enough size. You get periods of positivity when a team is doing well, but outside of that it just turns into a self-loathing echo chamber. That's my experience anyway, I've never really visited r/coys, but I'll take your word for it.
More or less perfectly describes the past three years at r/coys.
Can I introduce you to the lovely toxicity that is /r/gunners?
I'd make fun of you for supporting Tottenham, but I'm too busy dealing with the oddly mixed feelings of coming up against the juggernaut that is City and failing to even push them to the end of the season.
I'm probably in the minority and this would have gotten me crucified on r/coys, but I would have rather seen Arsenal win the league than City because while I dislike Arsenal for sporting reasons, I morally detest City Group FC. While, yes, Arsenal did bottle it, they bottled it to a team that has what amounts to two first team squads because City have not been forced to abide by FFP like every other club.
Another Tottenham supporter, and this is my take. I boycotted the entire World Cup. Rich despots are ruining the sport. Though I don't fault anyone for still watching I find it increasingly difficult.
I wonder if the /r/soccer of tildes will be ~soccer or ~football
Or I guess maybe ~sports.soccer or ~sports.football
It could also be ~sports.associationfootball and avoid the argument entirely.
Seems a little long, maybe we could shorten it to
assoccerassocsoccer.Oh boy, those are fighting words to some.
So far, I've looked a tags, but I can't always remember what they all are.
what is /r/coys?
It's a subreddit for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club which is an English Premier League team. It stands for "Come On You Spurs" which is a common refrain that supports say/chant/sing.
Your top three are my top three as well. At least the blackout happened prior to the start of transfer window so we aren't missing too much!
That's true. But I'm also on the fence about going back at all. If/when RES is killed that will all but do it for me with reddit.
Exactly the same boat here. I'll persist with the site on desktop with old.reddit and RES but they won't get any more from my phone after the end of this month. Newsnow is still scratching some of the football itch, but it's difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff on there. Hopefully Tildes (or somewhere non-Twitter) will grow to be a decent community to chat with about it all.
I'll certainly miss all the biking ones - cycling, bicycling, mountainbiking, etc.
I feel you on the soccer subs. I've been a part of r/borussiadortmund for a decade and it's hands down the best place to get updates on the club and be part of a community.
r/soccer for me too. Reddit is a great news aggregator. It kind of worked out that the sub closed right after the CL Final, but it seems the avg r/soccer user is desperate for transfer news and want the sub to be open.
There are a lot of r/soccer users who care a lot more about ease of getting information in the short term and have not thought about what is likely to happen to reddit and r/soccer in the long term if/when reddit is sold or goes public.
My niche multireddits related to :
I made a monster fitness multi that I would browse every day for motivation. Really miss that one 😭also I'm in the ML field, so my multi for that was another I would catch up on daily as well...
/r/Indieheads especially since a band, Squid, just released a new album last Friday that I was highly anticipating but now have nobody and nowhere to talk to about it.
The more granular videogame subs like /r/MonsterHunter, /r/Morrowind, /r/Zelda and /r/TrueZelda, /r/rpg_gamers.
The very active and knowledgeable Magic The Gathering communities. The amount of Reddit posts I trawl through for card and deck ideas is the single greatest source of Primo Jank and Hidden Gems in the entire mtg world.
Some of these subs might not be down, but even the open subs are noticably different with so many people taking a break from Reddit.
Another vouch for /r/TrueZelda here. Purely high quality discussion-focused goodness focused specifically on anything Zelda. Lore, game design, music, world building, theorycrafting, and anything else you can think of. Would be good to find a good Zelda message board out there. It's too good for Reddit, and I don't expect specific game groups to appear on Tildes one day.
With all the big video game news that’s happening right now I’m really missing sharing that excitement and discussion for some of favorite games with the hardcore fans.
As I’ve seen other comments mention that community feel of a niche passionate more hardcore fanbase is something that’ll be really hard to recreate on a forum like Tildes without a huge amount of growth so I’m still trying to work out how I want to approach those types of communities going forward and whether it can be actually be reddit free or not.
While I miss the gaming discussion, I've found the quality of current game discussion on reddit to be... not great. r/gaming is a pile, the moderation team on r/games is terrible (0% shocked they decided not to close up for the blackout), r/gamernews is not nearly as active... and the platform subs (and r/pcgaming or pcmr) are toxic to say the least. I find that r/nintendoswitch isn't quite as bad, but still.
The gaming subs I actually do miss are r/patientgamers since you get a nice mix of semi-recent discussion + retro talk and a lot of the people there seem to be a more dedicated crowd with more eclectic interests... and r/truegaming on occasion though the quality of posts varies wildly. And r/GameDeals, naturally. I'm glad that r/patientgamers created a Discord channel in light of everything going on recently.
I find the discussion of current announcements is usually pretty weak because in the end it's very little about people's interaction with a game and more about quick impressions/prejudices.
I can't fathom what you mean. When some newcomer asks about the current state of No Man's Sky, they need to be TOLD several hundred TIMES that Sean Murray is never getting more of my MONEY
/s in case it's needed, I'm still taking the temperature of this place :P
I wasn't so much talking about a game like that but you're not wrong, rather the reputation of a company. Bethesda just showed off Starfield and it looks great, but much of the conversation you see about it is "it'll be buggy because Bethesda so who cares i'm not playing it". If Hello Games made another title you might see the same response. And it'd be justified, but it gets tiresome to see that rather than discussion of the game at hand.
I personally wouldn't give Hello Games my money after NMS, but some people may feel differently and I'm not going to jump into a thread about No Man's Sky 2 to shit all over it because nobody needs to read that over and over again.
But No Man's Sky 2 is coming out in September, haven't you seen Bethesda's Starfield Direct? :D
I joke, but that's literally what I was yelling in a discord chat while watching the direct... it's like Beth looked at NMS, said "hold my controller" and did it... I want to say better, but I'm trying really hard to not give in to the hype.
I'm enjoying No Man's Sky in small doses (I usually do the expeditions or when new content happens). I have no issue with the game itself - the gameplay loop is a bit shallow for my brain and the generation/model variety of the planet stuff desperately needs a pass, but it's a fun game. The UI is rage inducing and is 100% the reason why I can only play in short doses.
Starfield promises (again, TRYING to dial back the hype...) to scratch that randomly generated exploration itch - go somewhere, scan/discover, get... points? Maybe gather materials, craft, maybe build a settlement... then do it again! Plus there's some actual enemies to fight. I'm really hopeful they'll give modders free reign again, because it means that as long as the bones of the game are good, we'll have a game to play for the next decade.
Edit: And if mods are a thing, combined with the random point-of-interest generation, it really makes me excited... we have so much stuff for Skyrim and FO4... can you imagine having Nick Valentine as a companion in Starfield? Or Lydia, because someone has to carry shit...
I think they're very different situations. The problem with No Man's Sky was that they literally lied about what the game contained. They had things in the trailer that weren't in the final game. They misled players about multiplayer content. They showed off shots that looked much better in-game than on PC and certainly on PS4, because the game was a mess at launch. It also had MASSIVE performance problems and in fact problems even running at all (I played it on PS4, and it hard crashed my PS4 three times which never happened before or since).
Bethesda has never had issues like that. I can't remember a single time where Bethesda flat out lied about their games. I think the "sweet little lies" meme about Todd Howard is funny, but it's also not really true. In some cases there's a little bit of overhype, and there's people reading too much into things -- or not being as impressed by things as Bethesda might have anticipated. For example, Fallout 4 having 40,000 lines of recorded dialogue -- well, it does. The problem is a lot of players didn't like that the player character spoke as well, didn't like the writing, etc. But that's not a lie.
I hated NMS when it came out, and revisiting it, I still find it really bland and boring. I even just wanted it for the exploration aspect but the problem is the exploration still seems sort of pointless and aimless and it's hard to even put your own goals in view rather than ones the game sets for you. Every single 'quest' is totally soulless.
I was super skeptical of Starfield, and I'm still skeptical because it isn't out yet, but what they showed in the gameplay deep dive was leagues better than anything I've ever seen from NMS personally, and I think it'll also appeal to a lot of people who found nothing to enjoy in NMS. It'll have bugs, I'm sure, but Bethesda has a reputation for bugs because they're usually incredibly silly visual bugs that get shared widely because of how popular the games are, not because they're usually gamebreaking problems. The last huge issues I recall were the PS3 ports of Oblivion and Fallout 3 which iirc had a lot of problems with loading as save files got really big.
I only really picked up nms a few months ago, after it had sone years of dev and content, and since I got it there have been a number of big content updates. Its still really shallow, I agree there, but the loop is decent enough for short game runs
I last played it... I wanna say early last year. It's certainly improved, but there's just not much there to grab my interest and the initial release put an awful taste in my mouth.
I do agree the quality of discussion is generally quite low for a lot of the big gaming subs, though there is something to be said for enjoying the general excitement around announcements even if it’s not articulated in a particularly compelling or insightful way. However, I do find Reddit super helpful for hearing about gaming news and announcements and so I have missed that during the blackout. I know for sure there are alternative sources, but Reddit just makes finding content so easy.
Yeah, I miss /r/Games a bit as a source of centralized gaming news (as I am not using reddit right now at all), but I've quickly adapted and just get my news from a mixed RSS feed from various pages. Works perfectly fine. Plus there's always Blue's News.
I think overall I totally overestimated how much I need reddit in my life. Despite spending so many hours a day on it.
I can always recommend Jesse Cox's Five Minute Gaming News. Mon-Fri, does some updates on releases, gaming news, and the like. The dude's a wonderful fountain of positive energy in an internet that frequently leans towards the outrage and bitterness to get its clicks.
I also like patient gamers as it very much suits the the way I play games with probably around 80% of the games I play being older not generally relevant titles so that’s a great place to discuss them.
But for me it’s the subreddits dedicated to the specific games and series I love that I mainly spend time in, the general ones I agree are pretty useless.
While maybe announcements don’t always yield high level discussion I just personally enjoy sharing in the excitement of a game a community’s been hoping for getting announced, also breaking down and speculating about all the little details/references in trailers or footage can be a fun way to build up to a release.
I see the enjoyment in that but these days I feel like any showcase/trailer release has just turned into an opportunity for people to bitch about everything they possibly can.
I found it ironic that the shitpost-filled, meme-y sub r/gaming blacked out while the allegedly more respectable r/games did not.
/r/skeptic, /r/NeutralPolitics, /r/neutralnews, many of my Warhammer/painting focused hobby subs, and the daily Ukraine war topic in /r/CredibleDefense.
Edit: I also really miss /r/starcitizen since the official forums are bad.
Some of these are still open and didn't participate, but I'm still not visiting them. The Warhammer subs seem to all have opted to not blackout and I never saw discussion as to why, which I don't really like.
https://timcolwill.com/40K.html
Warhammer as a community seems to appreciate authoritarianism vs resisting it, which is worth thinking about.
Yes, there are better warhammer communities aware of some of the types the setting draws in. /r/sigmarxism, which is an excellent name, often discusses this and is a counterpoint to it.
I am also desperately missing /r/CredibleDefense. I spent over a decade on reddit and for the last year it has undoubtedly been my #1 most frequently read subreddit. Ironically it's made me consider going to Twitter (which has committed the same sin), since a big portion of the posts were just links to Twitter posts. Would love to foster a similar community here or anywhere really, but as I'm just some amateur armchair general, I don't think I'm the best person for that role.
Agreed. I rarely participated but greatly enjoyed the regulars who are good at posting insightful articles and telegram and Twitter links.
For a while when the way started there were weekly and sometimes daily threads about it. Not the same quality but it was something.
Mainly the main news, politics, and world news subs. I don't want to grab the latest headline from CNN or BBC or MSNBC, I want u/yourmomsux420 who contains a wealth of knowledge on the subject at hand to break it down for me in the comments. I wish I didn't have to quit you, Reddit.
You've touched on something that I really do miss of Reddit in general - the sheer amount of experts who hang around there and just explain things in great detail for free.
I think the fact that some of the experts had usernames like "yourmomsux420" just added to it.
A big one for me is /r/ADHD. As someone with a relatively new diagnosis, it was a godsend. A lot of good information on medication, supportive posts, etc. Overall, it was a nice corner of the internet that helped me feel a little less alone as I figure everything out.
The sub actually isn't blacked out from what I can tell, but I'm refusing to go on Reddit and likely will be indefinitely, so it's been difficult to walk away lol
All of the ADHD subs have been so validating. They’re the reason I felt comfortable going back on medication. If I do leave Reddit permanently, I will have to find a replacement for those open and supportive discussions.
The mental health groups were great - community support, perspective, resources and information. I appreciated the genuine perspective and stories.
Those things come up here and it would be great to see more conversations.
I agree with you about r/adhd so much great information and support in there. Honestly it’s probably as useful if not more useful than therapy itself because you receive the collective experience and intelligence of thousands of people. But as a new tildes user myself, I’m left wondering is there any reason this couldn’t be brought here?
Well, tildes doesn't have communities like subreddits, so subreddits can't transfer here as entities, but ADHD can definitely be discussed here. I've already seen a few posts that are very similar to posts you might see on /r/ADHD.
Yeah I just think it’s strange to not have the ability to create new topics or subtopics. If it was a topic specific forum like “this forum is for discussing repairs for classic cars” I’d get it but as a forum for general/arbitrary topics, I would love to see more. Basically take the good of Reddit and leave the bad behind.
That's actually what tags are for on Tildes! Everything is categorized and you can filter it to only see the topics you want to see. It just works differently than reddit does.
And although groups are only created by one person who runs the site, tags are added and edited by all users. Here's an explanation of how it works, mostly the second section on the page.
I know, I just don’t like it. I don’t really care what everyone in the site thinks about a specific topic, if I did I would look for hashtags on Twitter. I prefer the Reddit method of having separate sub communities, and letting them discuss the same topics independently from their own thoughts, views, experiences, and values.
I don’t like the Reddit model for advertising, power tripping mods that run amok, the way blocking someone prevents them from posting further down in the thread or even replying to your message in the first place, etc. the Reddit mechanics are so broken have lots of room for fixing (which they’ll never do), but I think the separate communities thing is something that works great and scales great as the site grows.
I actually feel the same way about most of the things you mentioned. My favorite thing about reddit was probably the weird little subreddits with their own languages/definitions and unique social norms. I'm honestly going to miss it a lot, and it's irritating to think about those spaces being inevitably ruined or abandoned.
I guess I'm just ready to try something new, mostly because any platform that was truly a "reddit equivalent" would probably fall flat for me, at least right now. It wouldn't be the same. With Tildes, I can appreciate a bit of a different format while still participating with somewhat familiar content. But I understand your perspective as well.
Im a little blown away that after 10 years on reddit, and subscribing to at least 150 subs, that Ive maybe heard of 10% of the subs mentioned. Just goes to show how niche some of them were and how difficult they will be to replace. But Ive sworn it off, not going back, despite it being like quitting cigarettes.
I was very fortunate with cigarettes. Over the course of a few months I started thinking "man, these things are actually f*kin gross." Bought my last pack in 2019, had two or three out of it and gave the rest away. Now I don't even like being near a person who has smoked recently. I can thank my business associate for always smoking inside the workspace making me extremely irritated with him and the smell of cigarettes, and Covid lockdowns for keeping me away from bars for two years lol. There was no decision to quit or failed attempts or anything, I just stopped liking them and now struggle to see how I ever did.
Maybe it will be the same for me and Reddit? We'll see. Reddit didn't make my clothes stinky at least.
/r/askhistorians. I didn't read everything, but when something caught my eye the comments were always informative. Well moderated subreddit that is closing down for good as I understand it. Sad to lose it...
Not any particular subreddits, bit missing a central place to see different news from around the world.
Decided to play around with RSS again this morning and have a good setup in Feedly.
I think going forward I'll end up with three apps to replace Reddit, one for community, one for news and one for nsfw
Which app will you be using for community? (Unless you meant Tildes by that, of course!)
I'm basically trying everything that's going around ATM tildes,lemmy etc
Haven't landed on one yet, definitely a fan of this place but it is a little tame.
Lemmy seems a mess
Do you have any suggestions on good RSS feeds?
Every time I've tried in the past I end up adding too many and get overwhelmed. I'm hoping that the extra free time from less reddit will mean I can spend more time reading.
I actually set up Feedly, and do like it's UI, but wasn't about to pay the subscription fee just to add more folders. Happy to pay something for things, but the subscription cost seems excessive to me for what it is/what they give you. So far I like Feeder.co (there's also just "Feeder" that I didn't like). It's not anywhere near as clean a UI as Feedly, but being able to separate feeds into a bunch of folders is a lot nicer for me.
I'll also second the question by @bugsmith about community. NSFW I think I've got covered, but hey, I wouldn't turn down options there, either :-)
Curious what you're using for nsfw? I have built up quite the war chest of during types of smut that simply isn't available on the regular tubes
I'm sticking everything in the one bucket with Feedly, if it looks like a winner, I'll consider something that allows multiple folders
Honestly mostly I just use a couple of nsfw search/aggregators. XNXX is a search that pulls from a bunch of different places and you can find a lot of different stuff. Sort of like the Bing search of a few years ago. But I also only use it on an older computer that's for that purpose alone. Not sure if I trust some of the sites it searches.
Alohatube is actually also ok. It sometimes "hosts" stuff itself, which just means it plays it in its own Alohatube window and you don't get all the extraneous "stuff" that most nsfw sites like to throw up
I’m surprised that this is the only comment in the whole thread to mention NSFW subreddits.
I don’t really understand the aversion to it here or why people want to censor/ban it so badly. There are many communities built around sex topics especially considering how core sex is to the human experience.
I can understand why they wouldn't want to deal with it, legal issues, age verification etc etc
My comment was mostly about surprise that this was the only subthread in this post that even mentioned missing NSFW subreddits.
Actual pornographic videos is one thing and I agree, it needs active moderation, ability to report abuse or illegal content, etc. But those mechanisms are something that has to exist anyway or else a community like this can not survive because governments will just shut it down or ISPs and hosting providers will just terminate service like they did with 8chan.
But there are many NSFW/sex topics which are relevant even to minors. Minors are allowed to talk about sex, they're allowed to ask questions about sex, in places with Romeo & Juliet laws it's legal for them to have sex, etc. And consenting adults should be able to have conversations about sex, relationships, and whatever else is going on in their life. Sure, moderate them to keep them useful and high quality but it should be allowed.
For me, the text post time-killer subs. Mainly r/BestofRedditorUpdates because I realized long ago what I like most are "complete" stories. The "looking for a post" thread there was also great for finding new stuff to read (or reread) when bored.
Otherwise, r/Oddlysatisfying purely because I've been going there at night lately to get my brain to wind down. Watching videos with super smooth and/or repetitive motions by people clearly skilled at whatever they're doing can help a lot. I bookmarked the account of a jewelry maker (u/MDTCjewelry) a while back who also has their own sub, so I've just been rewatching their videos after sorting by controversial of all time.
Yup, I was hoping others would share my love of BORU here. I'd routinely read them as bedtime stories for myself. Something about the rollercoaster of emotions you feel when reading a post over there just isn't replicable anywhere else.
Not embarrassed to say that this week, of all weeks, I wish the UFO theorists were here and not there.
Me too! I don't mesh with the politics of most conspiracy subs, but i do have a genuine interest in everything weird and unexplained, and the casual UFO buzz lately has me engaged lol
I don't know where to look to satiate my curiosity.
Damn, my new name is relevant!
r/UFO quit the blackout because of the recent 'news'. So, if you and @snakesnakewhale are okay with giving Reddit traffic & ad impressions right now, you can.
Nah, not okay with it. :) As far as I'm concerned there's no looking back.
Nothing worth reading will ever be exclusive to reddit, I just like the hype chamber when there's new water cooler content to buzz about
I don’t spend much time in those circles, what’s the “news” you’re talking about?
Me either, but because The Guardian wrote about it, it reached me.
The news:
Reporting is iffy: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/ufo-report-media
What may happen from here on out: https://www.wired.com/story/ufo-whistleblower-us-congress-investigations/
That was just what i was hoping to find, thank you kindly
My pleasure :)
Na, i dont cross picket lines. I'll try some creative search terms
May I recommend Mick West? https://youtu.be/AvhMMhW-JN0
I had the opportunity to interview Mick a few years ago for an online mini course on societal impacts of UFOs. I knew nothing about the topic and didn't know how to approach it at first, but discovering Mick's work gave me a great deal of direction and made it enthralling.
I am very interested by your description! That's basically my interest as well- what factors make people see UFOs? I will watch that tonight, tyvm!
A bunch of different parenting subs. I know there's one on here, but the niche subs were nice. My local one, my heathen ones. The general wealth of searchable shared knowledge in all the subs since they've been around for so long. That's really what sucks about the whole thing.
Deleted my account a while ago, but I'd lurk on r/formula1 and r/steamdeck recently every once in a while. Just a nice spot to catch up on news and releases, and how new games are performing on the platform for the latter.
I really, really, really miss r/formula1. There was no better source to keep up with all the community's tweets and news and rumors and bullshit. Not to mention the live threads during the practice, quali and the race sessions. There's nothing more energizing than seeing a crash, taking it in and having the thread blow up on your phone with other people commenting on it
I’ll be in ~sports this weekend for a Race Day Discussion if you are! Canada is this weekend and I believe they’re expecting rain.
Looking forward to it :)
I've been scanning the /r/Games frontpage every single day for I don't even know how long now. Well over a decade at this point. It was so convenient to get a mix of news and the better opinion articles that come out. The comment sections are usually pretty bad as a whole but had useful information often enough that I'd read the top voted comments every once in a while.
But it hasn't felt right for a while, at least a few years. I don't think I pay close enough attention to that side of it all to give specific criticism about their moderation, but it seems like all is not well on that front. (Does it really bother anyone else that they have a mod on the modlist named Whiteness88? What's going on there?) A lot of reddit feels like this. The vibes are bad. It's made me hate having this vague attachment to it.
It's way past time for me to leave and the blackout is as good an excuse as any. It's just hard. There's an emotional fondness for it simply out of familiarity and regularity, despite that it just wasn't a great place. I don't think I can get a balance of RSS feeds that will have most of what I care about and not leave important stuff out without it being a mess.
The whole situation makes me feel a weird emptiness.
Same here! It's been strange for the last couple of days not to have it as the default tab that I fall back on in my browser. I've returned to RSS feeds and Blue's News, which works pretty well so far, but I might check the sub every now and then for something I've missed (or when I want more curated news).
However, as you've noted, the "vibe" (which was never that great to begin with, IMO) has been in decline for the past few years - in many ways in parallel with Reddit and the internet at large. For a place for people who ostensibly enjoy games, there don't seem to be a lot of people who... enjoy games. So much excessive cynicism and negativity. Not that everything should be overly positive all the time (there is certainly plenty to be critical about in the games industry) but there could definitely be a healthier or more productive balance.
Hopefully we can help find that balance here on Tildes! I'll try to lurk less than I did on Reddit and post things when I have the time/energy, and I'd encourage others to do the same. Be the change you want to see and all that :)
I mod r/whatcarshouldIbuy. Seeing a few people trying to legitimately get info about particular models from the private sub access requests is killing me a bit, but I don't want to relent until tomorrow.
r/magicthecirclejerking is the best Magic the Gathering community on the internet and I just miss them.
r/cars is my car news feed, and r/games is my games news feed. The former is down and I can't in good conscience browse the latter for shrugging at all this.
Otherwise... Eh. I migrated to reddit because it was a good replacement for text forums with some news feed capability on the side, but it's obvious the shitty disposable meme content is where they want to make money and screw users or subs over. Fuck em.
In case you don't hear it enough, thanks for the efforts you've put in on r/whatcarshouldibuy!
I've needed a newer car for a decade and love reading through the suggestions as a form of daydreaming. Alas, I'm lousy with saving/budgeting so it's still a dream, but I still loved keeping up with the discussions.
Like you, r/cars left a hole in my daily phone addiction though.
Magic th circlejerking is where everyone knows exactly what they are about,.and why they are there. I love them so much.
I haven’t missed it at all, actually. I’m sort of surprised by that! I think I might eventually miss the inspiration from the fitness and weight loss subs I was in, but I was also at the point where 90% of the posts in those subs were noise for me so maybe I won’t.
On the flip side, I’ve noticed that I feel less cynical and depressed by the state of the world by not browsing r/all and seeing all the bad news and distressing videos. I absolutely love that this is a text only site for that reason
I'm feeling this too. I hated social media and stayed away from most of it, but got sucked into Reddit via some niche, great communities.
Losing the ability to flick through /r/all and read a bunch of garbage, usually horrific/ragebait from America when I'm on the opposite side of the world where it doesn't affect me is honestly great.
So true! Although even the australia specific stuff can be pretty disheartening. Only so many times I can read about the housing crisis, it is the exact same story posted every day. Somehow I could never stop myself peeking into r/all though. This break has been great, I don’t think I’ll be going back
Same here. I tried to make a conscious effort to avoid the firehouse of bad global reporting and sub to local subs, only to be met with relentless doom posting about rent, how all landlords and REA are the devil, boomers caused all our current problems are interest rates are destroying us.
There's only so much of that I can take. I was hoping for a hell of a lot more balanced interests from a local set of Aussies, but it seems that culture just spilt out everywhere.
I feel better from not engaging there at all now, its back to only seeing Reddit for specific queries, hopefully using my libreddit instance ongoing.
Also, hit me up if you find some ways of being more engaged in local Aussie stuff, outside a local Facebook group (which is even more awful than most Reddit subs) I'm sorta out of ideas.
Sad that I knew you were an aussie in the first paragraph. That’s really all there ever was on that sub! I feel better not being there too.
I’m not on Facebook either so I’ll be relying on the grapevine and my husband to fill me in. It feels very freeing to cut myself off from the 24 hour news cycle
Sorry for being off topic about the subreddits, but for Discord I've found the search is actually fairly decent - of course it won't be the same as having google index the given server, but it's still fairly possible to find some previously discussed topics.
w.r.t. the subreddits which are gone... Honestly I'll mostly miss the apps, not any one specific subreddit, although I've already experienced what you say when searching for something and the answers are on subs that went private.
The problem with this though is that you have to know what discord server to go to in the first place, and sometimes wait to be approved to even gain access. Google already knows all the sites and has aggregated all of the data into one search box.
Oh yes, I agree the fact that information is in discord servers is worse compared to reddit or any other indexable source. At least google can be used to find the right server I guess...? ┐( ˘_˘)┌
Coffee and fragrance subs. Now how do I find real opinions on the things I buy
Fragrantica has forums. At a glance everyone there seems very helpful.
I've just decided not to logon at all. It's just easier and is a good kick start to not using reddit once Apollo dies.
I will definitely miss /r/woodworking and any of the Star Wars, LOTR, and 3D printing subs.
Yes, I’ve consciously been avoiding logging in or viewing Reddit at all since the start of the blackout. Honestly, I thought it would be more difficult than it has been. The main thing to get over is the muscle memory of unlocking my phone and clicking on Apollo.
Yes, the muscle memory thing exactly. I was sitting on the couch last night with my phone on the armrest and kept finding my self doing the same thing, picking it up and unlocking it. I finally moved the Apollo off the main screen and into a folder to help kick the habit.
I’m definitely going to miss r/woodworking and r/handtools. My wallet? Not so much.
miss me my star wars subs, especially mawinstallation, even if it had a thousand identical posts asking the same questions. I'm excited about star wars, I'm excited about talking about star wars with other lifelong fans, I hope tildes gets a star wars group eventually?
Needlefelting, my local city, and Jelle's Marble Runs... I'm not a member of their discord and I don't enjoy discord as a discussion medium anyway, everything gets buried too quickly and there's no separate threads.
I'm actually not really missing any of them.
I've been on Reddit for nearly a decade. Over the past few months, I've been feeling more and more like the content is just variations of the same thing. Echo cambers tend to form quickly and breadth of discussion kind of sucks. I've recently been looking for more alternatives outside of Reddit with fresh content.
I can echo this sentiment.
I am a long-time Redditor, 12 years total and 8 years on my current account. The sheer quantity of reposts was getting to me. The bots, the spam, the adverts, urgh! Any of the top content within a 48 hour period always seemed to have memes, images or X that had just been regurgitated from email chains that had been going around since the 90s.
That said, I miss a couple of the subs that were not so bot infested, along with truly not missing the cesspool of people that just went out of their way to antagonise.
r/politicalcompassmemes because, at the end of the day, it was never meant to be taken seriously.
Hard pass. PCM is a cesspool. I have friends falling down alt-right pipelines because of it.
Ironic bigotry is still bigotry.
Full agreement here. Having places where that kind of stuff grows always leads to the death of the irony and blossoming of the underlying feeling. The wink wink nudge nudge folks get swamped by true believers and then they all collectively go on a nice ride together.
PCM, the donald, the chans, the Southern Strategy, they all follow the same pattern. Eventually Frankenstein's monster slips the leash.
Honestly, that’s all on them. Anyone who can be swayed by over the top memes was gonna do that anyway.
Same thing would happen on any social media site if they had a propensity for it.
Honestly, that isn't a good defense knowing what we know now in 2023. Social media sites and anyone who knows better has a duty to remove traffic, power, and interaction with such places as they only breed extremism and serve as recruiting platforms. They are specifically targeted by extremists as breeding and recruitment grounds, so even they know that the "anyone who can be swayed by over the top memes was gonna do that anyway" excuse isn't very valid. Deplatforming works.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1527476420982234
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2839728
https://www.transcript-open.de/doi/10.14361/9783839446706-010
https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2021/05/how-memes-and-internet-irony-are-hijacked-for-radicalization/
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/25/1124974181/how-memes-can-radicalize-you
That only works if the place actually encourages said ideologies or pushes for any form of actions.
Again, 99% of the time it’s a meme page. And the left has just as bad echo chambers.
No place on the internet is 100% perfect. The vast majority of pcm users were liberal and mocked the other two sectors regularly. The other side joked back. The argument that media leads to behavior has already been disproven a bunch just looking at studies of video games and film.
It’s not like it was a far right or far left circle jerk. It was mostly making fun of those people so it falls into the realm of satire. So, again, anyone being swayed by things they saw in pcm were probably going to believe that onion articles are real. You’re basically arguing the same thing as conservatives. “If the people are exposed to it—it’ll change them against what I want them to think!”
It was also one of the few places around that allows for freedom of discussion as long as people were respectful. As opposed to places like r/latestagecapitalism which banned people for even engaging with pages they didn’t like (pretty authoritarian if I say so myself).
PCM truly falls into the category of most people who dislike it only dislike it because they were told to dislike it.
But that’s just my opinion. I majored in political science. I frequented pcm. Never changed my ideologies more than any other open discussion would. I’d rather have that than an echo chamber that promotes hate in either direction.
That's not what I'm arguing, nor is your false equivalency between video games and a political meme board valid, nor is that the crox of argument presented by the sources. Please at least try to directly refute as opposed to ignoring presented evidence and knocking down a strawman.
It’s media. It’s not a false equivalency.
The argument is: the subreddit had nothing resembling anything close to political extremism nor did it promote any extreme ideologies. At no point did this happen. Therefore, any argument saying that extremist ideologies being allowed to fester and spread doesn’t apply.
In summary: the argument is moot.
Edit to add: I will agree that too much of exposure to a certain type of media may cause those susceptible to being easily swayed to fall victim to extremist ideology so my first point is flawed. It still ends when a satire page doesn’t promote any extremist ideology applicable to the original argument intended to be against it.
I disagree on both of your points.
The Donald was fully toxic and it hid behind the guise of joking. Frat boy toxicity kind of thing.PCM had toxicity in the same way most of the subs surrounding politics had their extreme groups. However, I agree with your first point wholly and admit I was wrong there. I understand where you’re coming from.
Either way, I honestly don’t want to spend my time arguing on behalf of a subreddit. I, personally, enjoyed it and had way more good times than bad. I can live without it though. I shouldn’t have pushed it anyway. I got defensive.
Other subreddits I wouldn’t mind seeing revived would be trees, anthropology, animal crossing and hydrohomies, if it makes any difference.
I would want to see PLC and DIY
I really hope we get a PCM community here. One of my favorite subreddits, along with r/steamdeck
r/collapse, r/preppers, r/trollxchromosomes, local (Montgomery county MD subs).
I am really, really missing the more women centric subs such as trollx, witches vs patriarchy, girl survival guide, etc.
As well as my local subs!
Ovarit is a thing, but I haven’t been impressed so far. And it’s invitation only.
I also am missing subreddits around women's topics, but I heard ovarit is pretty TERFy. Have you noticed anything like that there?
Yeah, I just deleted my account.
Hello fellow Marylander! I'm definitely missing the r/baltimore and r/maryland subs. And even though they didn't black out, I'm avoiding reddit for now and missing all the info in r/mdents and r/orioles
Should we start a Maryland forum here?
I'm more of a lurker usually, but I can try to contribute some content.
It's not so much the blackout as it is my choice to leave reddit behind forever. And I've certainly made that choice and failed before, but I think it's for real this time?
But I'm genuinely going to miss /r/daddit and /r/parentsofmultiples. You wouldn't think parenting advice from redditors would be worthwhile, but both of them are pretty solid subreddits. I can't think of a better way to put this, but it was refreshing finding a parenting group that took what Mr. Rogers taught us growing up to heart and did their best to practice gentle parenting. To put it another way, there was a sense that collectively we wanted to raise our kids in such a way that they wouldn't be burdened with the high costs of therapy in their 20s like we were.
And /r/parentsofmultiples especially was really helpful in navigating the confusing world of having twins. Taught me what we needed doubles of, what we didn't. How to get deals of formula. How to handle sleep training twins. etc. etc. Just a good source of help for me for the last couple of years.
Just remember the main takeaway of r/daddit in the last week: 20-second hugs are the most important thing in life.
While my cancer support sub did not go dark, I really could use some support there this week and it's fairly dead.
Sorry to hear that friend -- hope everything's going alright.
Thank you. It's going on. Recovering from a small procedure I had on Monday, though, and am just exhausted. But it's this exciting new tech that's promising!
Well that's good to hear at least! Hopefully it's not too expensive. Best of luck with that
I'm sad /r/MensLib is still down. It seems like the only place on the internet where men can discuss gender issues without it turning into a misogynistic fuckfest
I really liked r/menslib, too. I'm not a man, but it was such a good place for thoughtful conversation; very welcoming and not-scummy.
r/DnB for my music needs, bit of a niche genre so a general music group won't do it for me.
I am definitely happier without those big giant meme subs cluttering up everything though!
I'll echo all of the calls for local reddits. Luckily I have a fairly robust local blog to turn to which is sufficient for now.
The one thing that keeps drawing me back are curated links + translations of foreign language content. Most directly, keeping up with the ongoing offensive in Ukraine is much easier on r/Ukrainianconflict or r/Russiaukrainewar2022 than trying to assemble the same from Twitter (which I'd also like to avoid) on my own.
There are two subreddits I care about: /r/menslib, which, for all its flaws, is the only feminist place online I feel comfortable lurking in, let alone participating, and /r/truelit, which is just host to a lovely little community in its regular threads. I'd love for the former to move away from reddit, but it's a 'movement' that should probably be as decentralized as possible anyway. The latter is less portable.
For me it’s more specific tech subreddits like /r/homelab /r/selfhosted /r/HomeAssistant and team-specific sports subs, I follow the NFL, NBA, and MLB pretty closely.
This thread is making me sad. I may have to work through the stages of grief. The loss of information feels wrong. The collective knowledge should be protected by some sort of non profit.
afaik /r/datahoarder was backing up a lot of it. Never looked into it though.
Yes! Archive warrior project was methodically backing up all posts for long term archiving at archive.org. There was a bit of a rush to get everything archived before the blackout. Last I checked we were getting pretty close to having all text backed up. Legality aside, I'm looking forward to inventive ways of using that backed up data.
I miss the human interest stuff, the stupid not gunna be true stories by people, or the warming random stuff I came across. I miss numerous cat subs. I loved seeing my feed being full of random cat photos from the random subs out there, in water packages, one brain cells, blurry cats even.
I just miss time spent where I'd be reading stuff online and learning random titbits. Then I'd go off down a rabbit hole to learn more about it, or random videos that just please to watch.
Cat sub enjoyer here, too. There are so many!!
And what I loved was each time in the replies someone would link to yet another cat subreddit that I had missed. sad
Right? Big same. A new and unusual cat sub was a treat.
Alas :(
HFY, I read alot and contributed some, I'll really miss it.
r/PS5 cause I'm just a gaming nerd and I love my damn PS5.
I got so much of my hockey news from /r/hockey. I also got a lot of good answers from professionals and experienced people on various home repair / trade subreddits (plumbing, flooring, home improvement stuff). And as others have mentioned, local subreddits were nice to have for sure.
Big same! I need a new place to go to be wise there is no way in hell I'm opening the NHL app for my team news.
r/subredditdrama was always great. I renewed to spend more time at niche book communities like r/iteration110cradle and r/cremposting.
Hey, another Will Wight fan! What did you think of Waybound?
I started to read Waybound and then realized I haven't reread the last 2 and was a bit hazy. So I'm in the middle of a quick reread starting with Wintersteel because I just love the character interactions and crescendo of that book so much (plus points!), and I'm almost through with Dreadgod. It's really fun paying attention to Eithan's perspective on this reread.
I remember joining r/iteration110cradle after reading the first book and being extremely curious about why they would ban turtle posts. I think that was around when Ghostwater came out?
What did you think of The Captain?
I'm not sure either, I actually on found my first copy of Unsouled on a cruise ship last October, so 9 months before Waybound released. I suspect it has something to do with jokes about there being a turtle for every Path that Eithan offered Lindon.
I did my reread weeks ago and then finished Waybound about 12 hours after I first saw it released (a day before I thought it would...). I haven't read The Captain. I typically don't read unfinished series -- I thought Cradle was complete when I started it. At this point, I do know Will is very good about his writing schedule, and I might give it a read once book two comes out.
Did you read the spoiler scenes that Will put out after the kickstarter? Eithan's point of view in them (with spoilers) in the earlier books is great.
Plus one for both SRD and cremposting! I think the former is not in the ethos of Tildes, what with all the snark and building content off of drama anf arguments. Have to admit, though, I did always love seeing nazis, incels, and other losers getting bashed.
I'll have to put r/hobbydrama in that bucket, too. The detail some of those people would put into their posts was crazy! Decades of history and old arguments in some of them, all building up to a recent explosion in some mundane thread. Wild.
A lot of the technology based ones. I really miss r/DataHoarder, r/Piracy, and r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH - and man I hope they can migrate their info over here. I missed any that had good information on self-hosting or pirating content to be honest. Having an easy source for consumer technology news was also great.
Many of the sports subreddits for my teams and leagues I enjoyed watching.
So gonewild had about 4 million subscribers (I had to google the number as I don't want to visit Reddit right now) and apparently I'm the only one who made it here. O_o
Finally… way done at the bottom.
I do feel that the golden age of NSFW content died with Tumblr, but alas, Reddit had its own legacy of pornography. A time before the Onlyfans shameless plugs and spamming r/all. Although I don’t see an issue with paying for sex work in general, I do feel like only fans has decreased the niche sub genre of fetish pornography, and with it came the new age of boring cookie cutter nudes and 12.99 exclusive content with low effort content creators, and I don’t just mean females, the gay and bi-sexual content (which I might add, I’ve dabbled into from time to time) is lacking in both quality and in fresh ideas.
To address the main subject, I’ve only been on Tildes for 20 minutes total, so I don’t know if there is a NSFW sub/s here, but it would be nice, provided it didn’t turn out like it always does, a cash grab for spammers and hucksters.
I used to refer to gonewild as organic porn because of the no cash incentive rule. Not that I begrudge sex workers their onlyfans income, more power to them, but it was nice to have a place where people just wanted to undress and didn't do so with a fake smile just to keep the lights running.
Tildes is very text centric, and while erotic content is allowed here at least according to the guidelines that alone won't make it very popular for sharing this stuff. Lemmy has a dedicated instance for NSFW, but as all things Lemmy it's very much in the finding its footing phase still. There's dedicated networks like fetlife, too, but they are more geared to finding people who share your interests IRL than sharing anonymously.
I miss r/piracy and my city subreddits.
/r/cycling
/r/pathofexile
some of the good sub 100k meme subreddits as well (although Tildes is not the place for them)
I really hope we can get better tag filtering in the future cause the loss of niche hobby subreddits is sad.
I'm just getting back into cycling again after a longish hiatus and r/cycling has been so helpful. There are so many super knowledgeable people over there.
I know. Honestly that's the saddest thing to me about the Reddit happenings. So much hobbyist knowledge lost. I'm hoping the tags system eventually gets some subscription functionality so that we can start forming sub communities here. I actually really like the ideas of tags and how you can sort of have smaller discussions roll into the larger topics.
I'm missing my local subreddits and sports subreddits, which are pretty wholesome as far as reddit is concerned. After a few weeks of heavily reduced reddit usage, I'm finding that I don't really miss gaming, news, or meme subreddits. I sort of miss car subreddits, but I can get pics of cars elsewhere, too (or just RSS those reddits so I get the content without the comments).
Not sure if I miss any subreddit in particular, but I often search for something and append site:reddit.com, which is pretty problematic during the blackout.
I like to be able to get into something and go to its subreddit to learn more about it and discuss it. I usually find out if there's a sub, and most of the time there is, then I go to the FAQ in the sidebar, get a bunch of information, and then I start to sort the sub by top posts of all time. I've been doing this for the 12 years or so I've been on Reddit and I've been able to get a lot of information.
Right now, /r/osugame and /r/StreetFighter, but in general, all the small subs for specific games or hobbies I used to go to.
I support the blackout, but I'm kind of worried. I was ready to quit reddit for good once the blackout started, and I still sort of want to do that, because the platform represents so many things I dislike. But there's never been anything like reddit when it comes to just entering the name of a thing and finding content about it, people talking about it.
Reddit has subs even for things like specific Minecraft mods, or characters in fighting games... I've caught myself looking to go to these subs several times in these two days already. Now enthusiasts of those things may lose their meeting point and never have one easily discoverable place for everyone to connect in again. It doesn't help that many communities might opt towards Discord for a community hangout with free hosting, and that bugs me in several ways. Maybe it's time to bring back fansites?
Also, even when this whole thing blows over, a lot of knowledge will be gone from search engines as a lot of subs may remain in blackout indefinitely, especially small, inactive subs that have little to lose. Even people outside of reddit have noted that search results everywhere have considerably worsened from reddit posts being unavailable.
I'm genuinely a bit scared about the consequences of all this.
Aside from all the general content provided by the big front page of /all -
That's what I miss and will miss the most. Generic videos I'll find on youtube, memes on imgur or whatever, askreddit/text subs may as well be this.
It's such a shame because we all had something really good going there for a long time.
Information subs, like crafts and computer things for me. Any time I need a solution I end up going to either Reddit or Metafilter. For a long time the ftm/trans subs were a lifesaver with so many stories and experiences.
/r/boardgames and /r/rpg are the two main ones for me. I care deeply about those interests; but not at all about D&D, MTG or Warhammer.
Pretty much everywhere I've looked for these rich and diverse topics the discussion is almost drowned out by posts about one of these megaliths, and none of the smaller (and in my opinion much, much more fascinating) alternatives get enough of an audience going.
Yet, hopefully.
Reddit was really terrible in many way, among them the vast proliferation of drama-optimized low-effort subreddits. But the critical mass of users also enabled tiny and very focused niche communities to form.
I'm patiently watching how things are developing here especially with Deimos' plans of allowing groups to be more independent and multifaceted. At least give me ~gloomhaven please! :)
I really liked some of the niche technical subs. r/usbCHardware was a favorite of mine. Also r/multicopter (FPV drone discussion).
I have to be honest, I used to lurk /r/selfhosted, /r/homelab and similar a lot, but since joinig/becoming a member of the k8s@home discord/community I haven't needed to.
I have self-hosted for like 15 years and moved into running Kubernetes for my stack, nd the advice/knowledge of the community is superior to what I got on Reddit.
Reddit always had the 'look at my rack' with overkill, incredibly expensive power guzzlers, some not so great software recommendations/etc which required picking through. The obsession with linuxserver.io containers (which I've since found are really not that great and not as robust/secure as other methods of containerising), and the easy to spin up all-in-one solutions that have crypto miners built in!
I think the quality of information went downhill in the last 5 years - not saying it was BAD but getting harder to use.
I appreciate the linuxserver containers, if only because they're adequate, better patched than most, and easier for newcomers.
Never going to be able to beat handrolling your own containers, but that takes time.
You're definitely correct. LSIO is good for newcomers, I used them in my docker-compose days. I'd like to see self-hosting become more and more popular to drive FOSS and indie web agenda, so the easier we can make it the better.
My concerns usually go to their build, and over complexity with things like the docker-mod stuff, using S6 overlay, often rootfull. I had one (calibre) that did most of the apt install stuff post-docker launch, which made my startup time painfully long as for some reason apt usually runs at a handful of KB/s with default servers. I generally want as much of that as possible done in the container, not on launch.
You don't have to build your own, the k8s@home community have a lot of better practice ones build for a lot of apps which are pretty widely used in our community, I use a lot of onedr0p and bjw-s containers (and a few of my own/etc)
Oh the S6 overlay definitely. It reeks of "I don't like systemd" and "We should treat containers like VMs".
Echoing many other sentiments here: niche subs. My city subreddit was always fun for local memes and food/activity recs. I'll miss hearing some of the news and gossip from across town.
Certain gaming subs with their own cultures, like r/bindingofisaac. Where can I go to see "skill issue" posted 100 times every day now?
And also certain hobby subs, like r/worldbuilding, r/conlangs, r/vexillology, and all my birding subs. Where will I get identification practice and see cute birb pics now? :(
Yeah -- niche gaming subs like r/bindingofisaac is what I miss the most. I don't care about the thoughtful discussions or dissection of game elements, but just memey content about "lol this enemy is such bullshit" or whatever, it's fun to bond over shared experiences like that
For me, it's artisanvideos... Diverse collection of craftspeople just making beautiful stuff, often free of music or narration.
Why am I only learning about all these awesome sounding subs here?
/r/todayileaned, askScience, ELI5, Wikipedia etc
Lots of cool learning that was a great way to waste time
r/Android, r/Overwatch, r/Apple just for specific topics.
i miss brainless wrestling stuff in squaredcircle. it was a nice break from the awful of now.
I'm going to need some context. What on earth is "brainless wrestling"?
Sorry, by brainless I mean most of the posts were extremely vapid and there was very little chance I'd see something that would ruin my day.
(brainless wrestling is NOT the new death match craze :P)
Got it!
I'm missing r/flying, r/gliding, r/aviation (two are still alive but I'm trying hard to avoid reddit right now). There were a lot of quality discussions about aviation that are hard to find elsewhere. Facebook has some similar communities but then I have to put up with all the other crap Facebook shows me and my tolerance for that has become lower and lower over the years.
Most definitely r/tipofmytongue because internet sleuthing is my jam,also my local cities subreddit
Niche subs like BollywoodRealism, CannedSardines or IndiaNostalgia
Age relates subs like GenX
Weird funny subs like InterdimensionalCable
Music subs like ListenToThis or Preformances
Many other small subs whose posts would never reach the front page or a large audience.
Basically any niche hobbies that I was a part of. Reddit had grown large enough that even small hobbies could have some regular content and discussion. Many of them have discord servers, but it's not the same as it was on Reddit.
There’s lots but one that comes to mind is r/HydroHomies. ):
I hope you're drinking plenty of water :)
Absolutely
As a matter of fact I found a 74 oz capacity blender bottle jug just for the sauna yesterday. It was only $8 at TJ Maxx. I tend to drink a lot in the sauna and I didn’t want to have to refill my bottle halfway through a session. Only thing is it’s not insulated but that’s not a dealbreaker.
The only subreddits I really miss / haven't found good fediverse alternatives for are the more zoological animal science ones & the animal husbandry related ones. Not many casual fans of chicken genetics, sheep & pig herding & the latest data on animal training and behavioral enrichment on the fediverse yet. Or good husbandry advice/habitat design talk. Missing the entomology and flora ID / personal ecosystem management type stuff too. Some old school forums for these exist, and I still participate in 'em, but a lot of the ones that still exist lean a bit too far right for me to really enjoy.
The backyard chicken subreddit (for example) never went dark, but I won't be going back to reddit regardless of the personal loss of those hubs of niche but deeply held interests of mine. Alas.
My neighbor used to raise pigs for the fair. One of them came over to investigate when we were moving in, and he lured it back by hitting a metal pail. Apparently, loud clangs meant it was time for food. He now raises chickens that he lets roam around when he’s outside and summons them back in the same way.
Oh yeah, pigs and chickens both are extremely food motivated, it's kinda funny! We have two pigs right now that someone just dumped in my yard about 9 years ago, and I got 'em to follow me into a pen by putting goat food (what I had at the time) in a bucket and just shaking it. Not sure if they'd been bucket trained by a previous owner before they were dumped or if they were just aware of the sound food makes, but it worked flawlessly.
When I used to free range chooks (as a kid, I've since moved and our predator load is much too high now, but I give 'em loads of run space), they were quite similar. They'd come to the glass door at my parent's house to beg for snacks, and were usually obliged. :P The guinea birds figured out which room was our bedroom and would stand on top of the fence to peck the glass if we slept in too late for 'em.
I was subscribed to like 90% niche and specific gaming subs.
I tend to avoid broader gaming subs (probably the broadest exceptions were r/JRPG, r/MMORPG (fair warning, extremely negative trend in that one), r/speedrun, r/emulation, stuff like that) in favor of game-specific subs like r/ffxiv, r/2007scape, r/dragonquest, r/deltarune, etc. In some cases where I'm very deep in a game's community, like in the case of ffxiv, I was in multiple subs related to the game, like r/ffxivdiscussion, r/talesfromdf, and r/shitpostxiv (heads up, all 3 trend too negative for even my own tastes, I'm just too involved in xiv not to look from time to time.)
Outside of gaming, there was a myriad of cat subs, and then a few other sort of random tech communities like r/homelab and r/datahoarder (neither of which I understood well, to be honest) or interesting movements like r/nolawns and r/fuckcars
Honestly speaking, though, y'all are gonna see me in ~games the most around here as someone divesting away from reddit, cause that's mostly what kind of content I was consuming, I just wonder how ~games will go for me as that's a pretty broad group and isn't what I'm used to.
I actually really miss the steady stream of FF14 fan art. There were a few regulars posting short webcomics to the main sub pretty frequently, and to get my fix I ended up finding them on Tumblr and Twitter of all places.
Did tumblr get over its censorship thing? Or at least get better at it? I think the last time I was in there they were still taking down random posts for censorship reasons (and by random I mean random) so I left and ended up at Reddit.
I'm not 100% sure where they stand right now, I've never had a Tumblr account until this past month, but I do remember all the censorship drama from a few years ago. It looks like they've reversed some of their content rules — like, they decided to allow nudity as long as it's not sexually explicit.
Just from the little dip into Tumblr I've had in the past couple weeks I do really like the format, I feel like if it was still as popular as it was a few years ago it could be a good alternative to reddit for me.
I’m thinking it could replace the meme and photo side Reddit for me, too. Hopefully tildes is able to fulfill the conversation/forum side.
I think I’ll end up echoing most of the other commenters here. I mostly miss the small niche interests, hobby focused ones, and some of the support ones I was still part of.
And a few of my the local subreddits for my US state and nearby cities.
What I don’t miss is the firehose of garbage that I let myself sift through regularly.
I will miss /r/thriftstorehauls, /r/thriftgrift, /r/Music_survivor, among others.
I mostly don't miss it? I definitely was way too addicted to just opening up Sync for Reddit in idle moments and just scrolling. Deleting Sync made me realize that I wasn't really getting anything out of browsing Reddit so much. My hope is that I can re-purpose the time I used to spend idly on Reddit doing stuff that makes me happier.
The couple things I will miss are:
For me, it's mainly the Rifts and PalladiumMegaverse subs. I'm into some pretty niche RPGs these days, and I'd say most of my postings in the last few months were in there.
Oh and the SteamDeck and SteamController subs, both of which were extremely helpful to my hobbies. Great repositories of information. I assume they're down, only because I'm just not checking reddit right now. And honestly? I'm not sure how much I will want to going forward, either. Whole place just leaves a sour taste in my mouth now.
Movies, cars, sea of thieves, videos, gaming.
I miss the work related subreddits. I could always find good information there. Outside of work, the local subreddits and Offroading groups.
Mostly local subs which may have a language rule, the most famous I guess it's r/de.
/r/Linux
/r/haskell
/r/racket
/r/evnova
/r/commandline
CombatFootage. A lot of other stuff I can get elsewhere more or less without much work. Staying up to date on new Ukraine war vids is a tough task without it. thedrive.com is, and has been, a nice place for car and defense news. That covers my broad overview. Perun on YouTube dives deep into it. But I’m left combing through countless twitter and telegram posts to catch the rest.
I know a lot of people won’t want to see that kind of stuff ever. I certainly know it probably won’t ever be here. The nice thing about CombatFootage though is it still hid the absolute worst of it. Now clicks can be a little riskier and I’ll spare anyone reading from the details.
Ive watched a bit of it on kaotic and Im very clueless about anything to do with combat, but Im surprised by the amount of footage taken from drones dropping a small ordinance on a single soldier in a trench. They obviously hover for awhile over their target observing and positioning before releasing, but it seems like a lot of technical challenges and machinery to try and kill a single soldier at a time. Is that kind of combat machinery new to this war?
I mostly miss my niche game subreddits. It was always nice to see what people post about their playthroughs, art and shitposts they made. I also got bothered by information that shows up on google but is in a privated subreddit.
AITA, most of the Star Wars subs, all the animal subs.
Almost all of my main ones. Destiny 2, cars, electricvehicles, multiple music subs, home automation subs, selfhosted, local city sub.
I think reddit is at its best when it comes to Sports. Baseball and Soccer general subs are fantastic and tends to be a pretty healthy mix of memes, hot takes, and in depth discussion. the user flair demonstrating what each users favorite team is really lends context to the discussion threads and jokes too; and overall it's a whole part of Reddit that just seems untouched by the trolling, astroturfing, and narrative wars that the other big ticket general discussion realms can descend into.
I'm new to tildes so i don't know what the mission statement is, but I'd spend more time here is there was a subdivision for different sports discussion and a flair mechanic to identify who's repping which team in each comment thread.
I greatly miss /r/nba. The NBA finals just concluded last night and the draft is coming up, and I just lost my main source of information about the sport. There were a lot of twitter posts that made it to reddit, but it saved me from 1) getting a twitter account (bleh) and 2) filtering through all the other tweets that I don't actually care about. Not sure where I'm gonna go next for following the sport.
Discord definitely has a search. It's not great, but I've found my answers the few times I've used it recently.
Definitely the subs I frequented most like r/Android, r/Apple, r/Cars, r/Formula1, and more. The discussions in these subs were usually pretty good and it was where I'd learn about new tech, new cars, and get my motorsports news. I've just resorted to getting my news elsewhere in the meantime.
I think the biggest subs I miss are the ones that had a lot of useful information that would be surfaced with a Google search. Just yesterday, I wanted to fill a gap in my iPhone homescreen with a useful widget. I thought "no problem, let me just go on Google and search Reddit for some useful apps with widgets." However, as I searched and limited my search to r/Apple, r/iPhone, and r/iOS, I remembered that these subs are now private and will be for the foreseeable future. That's when it hit me that this blackout is going to suck more than I thought.
The big one for me is /r/baseball, but in lieu of it I get to enjoy the massive reverse protest of /r/OaklandAthletics, which is insanely cool and I'm excited to read about and eventually watch.
Honestly, I think the worst part is that I’m not.
I would open reddit and look for one of my subscribed subreddits to see if there’s something interesting. And I’d cycle ~5 subreddits and see if there was anything new.
Yesterday I opened my reddit client forgetting that the blackout was happening and paused the app to prevent myself from opening it.
Then, multiple times I would instinctively go to open it and realize that I turned it off.
Today I didn’t try, so I was proud of that, but it does feel like a void—like I don’t know why the phone is in my hand at any given moment.
I think the one thing I will miss are the niche news subreddits, like r/Android. The Android news sites are awful, so I never visit them.
It also helped filter Variety and Deadline with r/movies and r/television, since they write articles about everything (I don’t care if some random actor has signed on with a talent agency).
Overall though, I feel like it’s made it clear how much of a time-suck it was. I was checking it more out of habit, not interest.
r/2007scape
Missing the discussions and shitposts.
going to be an odd answer, but r/gachagaming
I can find replacements for most other communities, but r/gachagaming would definitely be one place that'd be difficult to replace when I leave reddit.
Several times today I was surfing other forums looking for real-person reviews of Apple AirPods Pro 2 and Reddit kept coming up. /r/apple is down and it was just a weird habit to break.
I use my AirPods Pro 2s every day. Do you have specific questions?
I was just looking for a real-world comparison of APP2 vs Bose QC 2 for airplane use specifically. I’ve read a lot of reviews and actually I now own both as of last night but my intention is to return one after some testing.
Fair enough. I would not be able to provide meaningful insight there. :)
I have the Bose QC (I’m not sure if they’re the 2 or not tho) and love them. My mom has some as well (hers are definitely not the 2) and uses them when she travels all the time. The battery life is pretty good, but the charging time is great imo. The over-ear cushions are replaceable, and that’s the only issue I’ve ever had with them, is the cushions tearing or wearing out.
I use mine mostly for audiobooks, but music sounds really good in them as well.
There are communities related to my chronic disabilities. They are small communities and probably won't get a lot of traction here for a while. It keeps me going just reading those threads and comments every day and something that might take me a while to move on from until a robust community forms here.
Same. The support subs for chronic pain and chronic illness have been a huge help for me the past several years, and the more specific subs provide a unique experience that’s going to be hard to do without.
My local-area subs, and niche hobbies like coffee roasting and falconry. Also I miss helping people identify birds. Politics was messy and you have to avoid the outrage, but educational. Also HomeImprovement was very educational and interesting.
/r/squaredcircle
I miss my wrestling news
The Discord channel seems to be alive and well now, but the forum-like structure is direly missed. I usually cannot really even take part in the live threads due to my timezone. SQ is the only community that I'd like to see successfully migrate to an another Reddit-like platform.
I will miss some ADHD communities (especially r/ADHDprogrammers), some communities focused around women's issues, and the ones for my geographical area. It was a good way to keep up to date on local news without having to read our garbage local newspaper.
Got a good jumping off points for an ADHD programmer who really regrets just finding out about this community now?
I missed being able to celebrate Denver's NBA Championship (note that the sub stayed up, I'm just trying not to engage with Reddit over the blackout), and the local subs (also stayed up). I think Feedly took care of most of the others that I'd normally browse, so their absence hasn't really had an impact.
It's confusing to me that people seem to think that the protesting is by mods and not the non-moderator end users of the 3rd party apps. Perhaps I'm in a minority that uses Reddit but prefers Apollo and old.reddit/RES. Tildes and Feedly are providing me with enough of an alternative to Reddit at the moment, but I don't know how to get the local sub content elsewhere, and I that's going to be the most missed aspect.
Diy subs like the ones for guitar pedals.
If I needed help with a circuit or something, I could have an answer within an hour.
Not only that, but new ideas and techniques that of never think of by myself were fun to read too
None to be honest. Though /r/Ukraine is one I would've missed, as well as the accompanying live thread, but both are still active.
Also perhaps /r/superstonk, but I don't interact with it very much. Just use it for big news, and enjoying the occasional crayon post.
Lifting's a big hobby of mine and r/weightroom is the last and only place on Reddit I visit. The daily threads are a great place to chat, and the community has a lot of actually strong/accomplished people in it with good perspectives. So much online fitness stuff winds up with beginners leading beginners, or majoring in the minors, or spreading FUD, or...
I haven't really seen many other places like WR, and I'm gonna be really bummed if it dies.
Same. I mainly visited r/fitness but I’m going to miss all that information as someone who’s only been lifting for 2+ years.
Less and less every day.
There's a few, like game specific ones (like MonHun, Warframe, or Trackmania particularly for it's TotD post, seeing thoughts on the map from great players but also other bonk divs like me), HFY, space orcs, and writing prompts for fiction, and topic-specific comes to mind (like fightsticks giving me an idea of what available, good budget and solid sticks... and ultimately fightpads that are cheaper and closer to what I wanted than fightsticks, came in handy since I bought SF6 recently and I can't work the controls with a regular gamepad).
I'm particularly missing the TotD megathreads right now. Map was a pain, and kind of boring iceslide chain, only made exciting by virtue of being unable to even get silver (which is my goal for TotD map, not even gold!).
There are a few that were always part of my daily rotation, and then other ones that would come and go as my interest waxed and waned.
On the more consistent rotation: r/formula1, r/formuladank, r/dankchristianmemes, a bunch of board gaming stuff (mini printing/painting,etc), a smattering of gaming related stuff (really sad about r/Steamdeck Edit: apparently it's back?) a few different game specific ones and lately a bunch of ADHD subreddits.
Losing the really specific niche ones hurt the most. It was always a great feeling to find a new interest and see an entire community already existed. That being said, not being on reddit is probably a net positive.
I miss /r/Buttcoin
I wasn't part of any particular community or involved with any sub specifically, so the only thing that I feel a loss for is, eh...
if I'm gonna be honest...
the porn subs were what I find are hard to replace. Going to a dedicated porn site means videos with misleading titles, titles that contain all the keywords at once that may (or may not!) be somewhere in the video, terrible tagging/categorization, professionals playing at being amateur (of course reddit has a lot of that going on as well, but among the roleplaying, some are at least convincing)... and then there's the ads. I'd be fine paying for the hosting costs at minimum, but none of the sites seem to want cash in the mail (no matter how much shit judge+jury+executioner visa and paypal give them about withholding their sole source of income) and I'm not about to tie my real name to an account like that with all the data leaks going on nowadays.
Also because I would want to keep this separate from my accounts-to-use-by-day, I used a third party reddit app for this. Well... thanks spez
Not many people mention this, is that because people don't have easy throwaway accounts here or is it really just me?
Hobbydrama, for the weekly scuffles threads. I'm not normally a drama/gossip hound but the iiluminaughtii drama is an absolutely nuts trainwreck to see happen live and I want my juicy news dammit lol
Not a subreddit, but I'll miss communities that share short videos that I'd otherwise have to suffer through a TikTok or Twitter feed to find. Although a lot of that content may be low quality or posted by repost bots/karma-farming accounts, there would often be ones that really made me laugh and I was appreciative to Reddit for curating that. I've never fully gotten onboard with the short-form video format enough to commit to actually using a platform specifically for it, but it's nice to be able to share things every once in a while with my friends who send me... so many TikTok videos that I will never understand. It's been a good way to not feel completely left out, ha.
Honestly, just a bunch of memey tv/video game related subreddits like /r/TheSimpsons, /r/SlayTheSpire and /r/DunderMifflin.
I spend a lot of my personal time watching classic TV shows like Seinfeld and in the absence of a social element, it just feels like time i'm throwing into a hole. I know it's not what tildes is for, and the posts were almost always just a screencap of an episode with 20-30 replies of people quoting the episode. But -- it's fun to bond with people over dumb shit. I'll miss those kinds of communities from Reddit.
None, actually.
I have already moved on. Now I just watch the shotshow and wait for July 1st to see if Boost still works or if I should uninstall it.
I kinda wish the train keeps going until June 30th when it inevitably hits the wall.
Despite the blackout being over for most subs, I haven’t been back. I’m missing my Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness, and more specific illness subs along with Romance Books and Historical Romance.
I do kind of miss seeing all the projects in the hobby/creative subs I was a part of, but there’s a bit of that here to fill the gap.
For me it's r/hardwareswap, r/buildapcsales, r/nvidia, r/intel, and r/Amd
For me /r/Piracy, /r/Privacy and some /r/Imaginary subs
For political discussion, I find these to provide interesting perspectives (occasionally, but that is good enough for me):
/r/moderatepolitics
/r/centrist
Promise not to judge too harshly?
The fanfic subs. Discovery on fanfic sites is terrible for the popular fandoms on account of the shear number of fics, it’s much easier to let other people find the good ones for you.
EliteDangerous and Golf
I spent most of my browsing time in those two.
I miss /r/TeslaMotors, /r/TeslaInvestorsClub, /r/spacex, and /r/hardware. They'd become the last few tech-related subs I followed, after the other tech subs got too large & started becoming really ignorant... but even they were getting worse over time due to tribal politics and the stock's movement drawing in day-traders and gamblers.
I definitely wish there were parallel subs for other topics, but honestly few other things attract the interest of geeks. What I liked about them was that they gave me a constant perspective of how applied technology was gradually changing the world we lived in + a sense of where the world will be in 5-10 years. Unlike, say, futurology, these predictions were generally somewhat grounded in reality rather than wishful nonsensical scifi, even if frequently missing the timeline by a decade or so.
I miss r/FireEmblemHeroes a lot. I know it's just a gacha game but I love FE, and I'm way too intimidated to join the discord. Really sucks if that community is gone forever.
I'm really missing my sports communities like /r/baseball, /r/braves, /r/mls, and /r/atlantaunited. I think a couple of those aren't down, but I'm still personally avoiding reddit for the time being
I'll probably miss dogelore the most. Apart from the very small squabble, it seems to be completely dead.
Echoing the local city subreddits but I’ll also deeply miss my fellow /r/lost community. 13 years later and we still would dissect that show like it we were around the water cooler the day after an episode.
popculturechat and fauxmoi. I like my dose of celebrity news and also flashbacks of trends like thin eyebrows and frosted tips.
Apart from the informational subs, I always enjoyed content from local dank meme subs like r/unket, r/dankmark, r/YUROP, r/ich_iel etc. They both were funny but also some times updated in recent topics I might have missed from neighbouring countries.
Gotta say only the Amoled phone backgrounds…. I haven’t missed anything else. I also wasn’t a heavy Reddit user.
Linux/distros/inux memes subs, retro gaming, sysadmin, specific old game console subreddits. I havent been on since and barring a change of heart I hopefully never will. Im just waiting to hear Reddit punished any sub moderator who dared to participate.
I miss a lot of the television subs. I watch a lot of tv and am used to going to any of the TV show subreddits to discuss an episode.
I also like going on book subs and getting recommendations for new books or read discussions on books I've read.
R/patientgamers was a great place for game discussions too as intend to play games pretty late.
I just really like discussing things after having consumed them.
I've been looking for a Reddit Alternative for a long time as all I've been yearning for these days are old school internet forums style of things.
I do enjoy polandball however.
Recently i got into a game called Factorio on my Nintendo Switch and wanted to see if i could mod it. So on Google i found a reddit link however the community was private so i couldn't acces it. No where else was the information for it so eventually i found the official discord and asked people there that were in the subreddit to copy it for me. And they did! Definitely makes you realize how Reddit replaced forums
After being here for a couple of days... I'm not missing any of them.
I’ve mostly been missing retro video game subs, like r/MiyooMini and r/RetroGamePorn. Those 2 subs were mostly pictures of people’s devices or screenshots from retro games, I liked seeing them as I scrolled by.
The more specialized ones. It's fine to have movies and TV spaces but I prefer to have ones that are focused on particular subjects (like a Star Wars sub for anything related to that or ones for specific games as examples). Not sure if the long term goal is to have these here eventually or not.
Haven't set foot on reddit since the start of the blackout (except once or twice, funnily enough to check if there was a new "Tildes invite requests" thread opened in the r/Tildes sub... Before I got invited after following the instructions in the Tildes blog and requesting it via email).
But I mostly miss the news, sports and music subs. Both r/news and r/AnimeTitties (as news hubs), r/SquaredCircle (I wonder if we could ask for ~sports.SquaredCircle or ~sports.wrestling to be created here?), r/soccer, r/F1, r/music (and genre-specific subs)... Oh, and also the Marvel ones, and the PS4/PS5 ones.
For me it really depends on my mood/what is happening around me. Right now it would be the starfield subreddit but that is the one subreddit I have not been good enough to not visit. I'm really not missing the others as much as I thought. I'm sure I'd still enjoy them if everything at reddit went back to normal and I came back but I thought it would be harder to leave those behind. Of course this question is making me think about them which makes me miss them more... so I guess making me think about it, I can't say one particular but one set of subreddits, my many cat subreddits.
Definitely /r/menslib. I believe they've pulled out from the blackout or any protest because they offer a pretty important space for men to get support for mental health and such, so they'll be around at least for a while. I'll probably visit through old.reddit every now and then.
I'm a woman but I believe conversations about men's lib are just as important as conversations about feminism, because both men and women benefit greatly when men gain understanding about the patriarchy, gender identity, positive masculinity, etc.