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I'm back
I just remembered this site from a few years back, maybe during Covid times? Clearly at some point the decision to delete my account history was made...
The state of the internet now makes me so deeply anxious. Scrolling Instagram makes my head feel like sludge. I stopped using reddit about 7 years ago. Never really found my crowd on IRC. So back here I am, hoping to find some signal in the noise and to calm my mind.
Has anything changed much here? What should I check out?
It's still less of a Reddit competitor with better mechanics (where smaller communities bubble up more interesting topics with voting) and more of a small/medium sized message board with voting mechanics. But that doesn't bother me.
Welcome home!
We're still the slow lane of the internet. We never "took off" as a "reddit replacement" but we've managed to retain a core group of quality posters with high effort content and conversations.
Frankly I'm glad it didn't take off. It never needed to.
I’m always so upset when a new flood of users arrive and they start asking how we can turn the site into reddit 2.0 and pump up those numbers.
On one hand I enjoy the idea of Tildes growing a lot and there being more users who share their niche interests and perspectives, on the other hand I'm glad the growth is slow and people take time to get used to things here and the quality of posts remains high while the quantity is not overwhelming.
I also remember commenting this on another post that Tildes' lower quantity of posts also has made me want to start topics/conversations with people here and post things more often than I did on other platforms.
Greetings!
I think it's an alright place to be. There's a few cases where I find myself in the minority opinion, but I think that can be a positive when it comes to avoiding echo chambers.
I have generally become less enthused with the internet as a social space, though. I do my best to get my interpersonal needs met in the real world, occasionally stopping in here or on a private forum when I feel like it. The signal-to-noise ratio is generally one of the better aspects of this site, so I think you're in the right place.
We now have a sick Minecraft server! Check it out.
I joined this site in the aftermath of the Reddit APIgate and after that initial rush of people, I think things have settled down into a simple rhythm. There's a ton of scheduled threads that you can read and post in, a fun Minecraft server to join, and lots of link aggregation. It's much harder to doomscroll on here, which is a huge plus. The rate at which people make threads and post is fairly slow so constantly refreshing the page doesn't do much here.
Theres a mobile app now if you missed it!
Three cheers on Iphone, I forget if its the same on Android
It is the same on android!
Welcome back. Definitely more lively around here than before. A lot of people came in the aftermath of the reddit's "APIgate" in mid 2023. But otherwise, Tildes still Tilde-ing.
Anything in particular you're looking for?