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Comment by dimmke | Hacker News Reader

Reddit ended up adding a corny chat feature that is exclusively used for spam as their answer to it. Pretty awful.

But to be honest, before subreddits had Discords they had IRC channels. This has always been a thing.

Reddit Chat is my prime example of a Product Development Vice President rushing out a feature-clone of a complementary business to try and juke the stats for their OKRs. Buggy, annoying, pushy, rude. Reddit Chat is why I now visit Incognito and interact less.

Reddit literally destroyed independent forums. That's such a huge swath of the internet and they effectively have a monopoly. Additionally, they top Google results for so many different subjects. I don't understand why they can't monetize that more.

They shouldn't also need to half heartedly try to compete with Discord. They should drill down on what they excel at.

Even though I am a daily Reddit user, it's mostly because there are no other alternatives. I definitely would not buy their stock.

I keep running into niche areas where the discussion group is on Facebook. Which annoys me to no end as I hate Facebook, but that's where the action is. It's not obvious to me that Facebook couldn't eat reddit's lunch.

Have you heard of Tildes? They are trying to make a better reddit-like thing.

I feel like every year in the past decade there has been some new Reddit clone. Reddit itself was open source for a while, so it used to be really easy. They never catch on.

I’m hoping some of these catch on but it seems those who are entrenched with power over social communications keep deplatforming these or character attacking them as some kind of extremist haven when most aren’t: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/oioeot/...

Tildes has been around a few years now I believe. I tried it in its early days, and checked it out again just now. Both times I’ve been impressed - it tends to have higher-quality comments and feel less… generally vapid that modern Reddit.

I used tildes for the better part of a year, unfortunately for me the cliquish nature and the fact that there are 12-15 power users with half the posts, who also congregate on the offsite discord, really ruined the website for me. I respect deimos and his goals greatly, but his community quickly became stressful to deal with.

How does one get an invite to tildes? I'd be interest in trying it out.

Does Huffman have no say? How did they go form lisp to this?

The Faustian bargain of venture capital. You get access to easy money early on, at the price of your (company's) soul.

And not Reddit video? At least you can avoid chat.

A close second. The secret here is to just not engage with any video content.

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