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3 votes
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Maintaining trust and safety at Discord with over 200 million people
14 votes -
'If it gets me, it gets me': The town where residents live alongside polar bears
4 votes -
There’s a vanishing resource we’re not talking about - humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we’re destroying the planet
27 votes -
The end of the American Chinatown - How renewed interest in downtown living is threatening neighborhoods that long provided a first stop for new immigrants
6 votes -
After two months, the sun rises in the northernmost US town
12 votes -
Conventions and beyond: Protecting our community from predators
3 votes -
Language and identity: Lessons from a unique Afrikaans community in Patagonia
7 votes -
On the experience of entering a bookstore in your forties (vs. your twenties)
8 votes -
Life lessons from a lifestyle business - An interview with Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter
8 votes -
More than porn: Tumblr affirmed trans youths' identities
12 votes -
Tumblr's displaced porn bloggers test their new platforms
21 votes -
Four days trapped at sea with crypto’s nouveau riche
16 votes -
'Will I have existed?' The unprecedented plan to move an Arctic city
14 votes -
By ending default communities, Reddit increased disinformation
25 votes -
How we turned our apartment block into a community
8 votes -
"Brian Eno's ideas have unexpected resonance for architecture"
5 votes -
A third of Wikipedia discussions are stuck in forever beefs
18 votes -
Wealthy White people in Atlanta suburb tried to secede from their Black-led town. They failed.
16 votes -
The strangest form of White flight
11 votes -
A rural community decided to treat its opioid problem like a natural disaster
11 votes -
The subway belongs to us
5 votes -
Deep in football country, wickets vie with goal posts as the game of cricket surges
4 votes -
One town fights back against a neo-nazi concert in East Germany
6 votes -
Is this place going to become the anti-thesis of Voat?
I just joined this website today and I like it quite a bit already. Several of the design choices seem to be really well thought out and the community seems pretty open to discussion, etc. While...
I just joined this website today and I like it quite a bit already. Several of the design choices seem to be really well thought out and the community seems pretty open to discussion, etc. While reading the initial email you receive when signing up, the creator talks about how this place isn't going to be a bastion of free speech and certain types of content (hate speech, etc) won't be tolerated and I understand where he is coming from.
I'm sure many people are aware of Voat and how it was a response to Reddit censoring several subreddits (/r/the_donald, /r/fatpeoplehate, etc) and if you go there now, it's pretty much exactly the type of demographic you would expect to occupy those subreddits originally.
But while I can see where the creator is coming from with his approach, I guess I'm just curious where you guys would draw the line? Because making a place that caters to people that you could say are on the opposite side of the Voat spectrum seems like a great breeding ground for another echo chamber. And I guess I've become a bit disillusioned with the idea that I can get "balanced" opinions on controversial topics on content-aggregate websites. Maybe that's not even possible with this format. Either way, I'm wondering if anyone feels the same.
64 votes -
London underground: The city’s elites went to war over basements
7 votes -
Left to Louisiana’s tides, a village fights for time
7 votes -
The fight for LGBT equality moves from "gayborhoods" to suburbia
7 votes -
A history of Johannesburg in ten dishes. The dishes that explain the history of South Africa’s Gold Rush City
7 votes -
We can't fix the internet (because we conflate social media with the entire internet)
13 votes -
Instagram is testing virtual communities for college students
13 votes -
Hungama: The club celebrating London's LGBT South Asians
5 votes -
Why are cities still so segregated?
5 votes -
The vanishing idealism of Burning Man
11 votes -
Turbo Island is a 'space left over after planning' – and Bristolians want it back
5 votes -
In the Cape Town enclave that survived apartheid, the new enemy is gentrification
4 votes -
Gun law changes dropped by Tasmanian Liberals following community backlash
7 votes -
What do we want as a community?
Just got invited here and looking at the content of the front page, Tildes is basically a "poor-man's version" of reddit right now. That's OK: it's a new community and I imagine a big part of...
Just got invited here and looking at the content of the front page, Tildes is basically a "poor-man's version" of reddit right now. That's OK: it's a new community and I imagine a big part of users are coming here from reddit so they're doing what they're used to doing on social networks, that's only fair.
However, more than that, looking at the groups, they are set up pretty much similarly to reddit's default subs - if not on a 1:1 basis, at least in the general tone: pretty casual, daily life topics, big focus on entertainment media, etc. Maybe again this is, by design catering to the people who are bound to be incoming from reddit, so they can immediately relate to a similar user experience. Good.
So I think it's fair to say that it's proven that Tildes can be "like reddit". It kinda looks like reddit, it kinda feels like reddit. That part of the deal is covered. Now, what can makes us different? I doubt anyone here has no ambition besides being a soft-fork of reddit.
What topics make you tick? What sort of online discussion makes you go "that's the good stuff"? What subjects are you truly passionate about? I'd like to know what the community here is all about, whether the current ~groups represent their interests and passions or not and, hopefully we could come up with some less generic ideas for new ~groups out of the discussion.
EDIT I realize Tildes has a specific policy of "lesser active groups are better than a billion inactive groups" but at this point in time a good selection of groups would really help define the identity and content, not to mention promote quality discussion that actually aligns with people's interests. Hopefully seeing common trends in the replies would allow us to identify a few potential new groups, perhaps.
36 votes -
The grand old tradition of gaming at the library
6 votes -
The great African regreening: Millions of 'magical' new trees bring renewal
5 votes -
Tiny homes, big community: Okotoks exploring affordable, eco-friendly homes
11 votes -
Why I love my library and you should too
14 votes -
Target’s CBGB tribute draws backlash, followed by an apology
3 votes -
Overtourism: A growing global problem
21 votes -
The Aral Sea is bringing new wealth to fishing villages in Kazakhstan, but their neighbours on the opposite shore in Uzbekistan are suffering a very different fate
6 votes -
Why mainstream health organisations are finally starting to work with LGBTIQ+ women
2 votes -
The last days of Blockbuster Video - The stories of three closing Blockbuster locations in Alaska, some of the last ones in the country
7 votes -
The Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one
26 votes -
Abandoned by coal; swallowed by drugs
6 votes -
Law of new new media platforms
4 votes