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Comment by shawn_w | Hacker News Reader

Are there any decent alternatives to reddit? When they finish killing off old reddit I'm gone, and will need a new time waster.

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Lemmy (part of of fediverse), HN, Tildes, Lobste.rs.

I can’t seem to read comments on Lobsters or I don’t know where they are. Do I need an account to see the discussion over there?

Nope, I can see them just fine without any account. Not sure what the problem might be on your side. They're in the same place as on HN.

Oh I see it now. The adblocker on my phone was hiding the comments. How weird.

Thanks!

On desktop they're same as HN, on mobile click the number in the bubble on the far right hand side.

i liked lemmy but was put off by how mixed the quality was, and how many random images seemed to link to dubious image repos or otherwise set off malware alarms.

reddits heavy monetization means they at least try to keep out a majority of the bad actors but lemmy always seemed a wild west. perhaps i will revisit soon.

Strange... I don't ever recall ever coming across an image linking somewhere outside of lemmy. Most people just upload images directly into their instance when creating posts.

In general never felt like I saw some dodgy link or anything nefarious

i dont know which instance you joined, but most lemmy doesnt encounter those links, you mustve went to a spam/botting part of lemmy. Each instance of lemmy is essentially its own little "Reddit". the ones you shouldnt join is ml, lemmygrad, or hexbear those are "far left" tankies.

Lobste.rs deliberately blocks Brave due to the maintainers having ingested all the FUD.

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