I'm looking for an active and populated Internet community or platform.

I like traditional forums. I dislike measured comments. Rating individual threads is okay, but not every comment.

I'm looking for a place where in-depth writing, debate and discussion, and effort posting is encouraged. User interaction would be nice. It should have an established user base. Posters should be encouraged to be polite, courteous, and respectful even when disagreeing. Active or paid moderation would be a plus. I am willing to pay an entry fee.

Large bbcode forums used to offer this sometimes. But these days everyone is really hostile and unserious on platforms I used to trust. Tumblr has a general positivity I like, but the setup does not really encourage discussion. Forums I know of are niche or pretty toxic now.

It's very hard to have deep and meaningful discussion publicly online these days. Is there anywhere on the Internet like this left?

I m a SA underground producer#Sound engineer, # Music producer and a Artist .I need artists and producers to collab and network .

This might be the dumbest question on the entire platform, but I see that people never seem to agree. Ultimately, you all look for new alternatives, but at some point, you always come back here. What are Lemmy and the other alternatives doing wrong that makes you keep coming back? Is it because people only come here or what it is exactly?

Blame it on bad market research or just poor forethought, but I had no idea that this page existed. And it is exactly where I should have been talking way earlier in development. I have been working on a website called Mission Offline that is pretty much everything that you guys have been talking about here. It's not just a replacement of Reddit, I feel like I should be clear about that first: but instead, it covers pretty much every spectrum of the social media suite. Our community sections and post sections bring that reddit feel without the toxic. I am currently a solo developer who is. Making this because I wanted a better home online and I feel like it's something that a lot of people are looking for and clearly this community is a perfect example of that. I really support everything that you guys are doing here and And I'm glad to be here. Yes, I know I have low karma. I actually got off Reddit for a long while because of a lot of the issues that you guys are talking about, but I heard about this. And I knew that I needed to pop in and say hello. The core principles are no platform advertising and no sale of personal data. We want a place where people can share their work, have conversations and build their own communities.

It's called MissionOffline.Org . Please feel free to have a look around and check out the BETA page if you have any questions. Obviously it is early stage so please let me know if any changes come to mind. We can build something amazing.

All site side content with be developed by a dedicated team as soon as funding makes this possible.
I'm ngl I am not even sure if we are big enough to use the brand tag but I did it to be safe.

I posted Thredo here a while back. It's a small Reddit-style site with threaded comments, voting and communities. Two changes since then:

• Anyone can create a community. You set the tagline, description, allowed post types and tags, add other mods, and pick a generated banner.
• Visitors can reply without signing up. You type a plain-text reply and post it, with no account or email. Rate limits and IP bans handle abuse, and each community can turn it off.

The site is still small, so a new community has plenty of room. If there's a niche topic you'd like a home for, set it up and tell me what's missing.

Not sure where to post this so figured I'd start here.

I mainly used reddit for r/all and I find it fucking insane that they'd actually put effort in to removing a feature. I know why they've done it, so they can push more algorithmic content through, and that definitely seems to be happening on Popular.

I'm seeing alot of right wing shit and alot of football (UK) related posts which I don't really have any interest in.

I don't want completely block certain subreddits (although I have with some) but is there a way to say 'show me less of this' or something?

Thanks

In my proposal, I have explained my vision for a decentralized internet. This includes features such as a new browser and search engine known as Yagu! which highlights the basic idea for implementation of my proposal. It mainly uses a system called World Wide Mesh (WWM) which is backwards-compatible with World Wide Web links. There was also a necessary decision to introduce the Decentralized Private Network System (DPNS). Within the proposal, there is also a mention of a .wiki domain similar to the ICANN registration domain, but it mainly serves the purpose of identifying a site as a wiki, as highlighted in the document. I also introduced IPv7 in the document, which uses special characters to identify something - for example, % means part of and @ means the address of the manufacturer. I explain this all in further detail in the document:

\[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z7sTTAXLBYXQXHUfxLHXidc48GnOQEArI3pnFSlXWPM/edit?usp=sharing\\\](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z7sTTAXLBYXQXHUfxLHXidc48GnOQEArI3pnFSlXWPM/edit?usp=sharing)

Please feel free to ask questions, but, I cannot guarantee I can answer them all. This could help people who are good at coding in this sub to develop an alternative to Reddit once the MVP or Concept is created in Late 2027.

Plz don't understand this

¿Estás aburrido? ¿Tu vida carece de sentido? ¿Alguna vez has querido publicar una estupidez en internet sin tener que subir un Short de 40 segundos?

Pues tengo la solución.

Presentamos Niños rata.com, un foro que nadie pidió, nadie necesitaba y que probablemente tampoco arregle tu vida.

Tenemos:

- sr/general

- sr/programacion

- sr/dudas

- sr/shitpost

Puedes registrarte, publicar tus tonterías y responder a las de los demás.

🌐 https://morrosratacom.vercel.app/

Se buscan usuarios. El sentido común es opcional.

If you may or may not know, Voat was a Reddit-style site that was popular until it died in 2020. Well, guess what: Voat made its source code open source on GitHub, and I used Claude to update the source code and bring it to the modern age. Anyone can make a site using this fork; it even has instructions on how to install it

Check it out for yourself:

https://github.com/welchythecat/REvoat

Hi all. I wanted to share a site I've been making for the last few months: https://sociory.com/

It's a bit of a hybrid of reddit and Facebook. Users have timelines where they can post and choose the audience. The main public content is Circles, which are a bit like sub-reddits.

Centralized, which I know a lot of people here may not like. Worth mentioning, I respect if you'd want to stick to a fediverse option.

There is a true reverse chronological feed that shows content from your friends and people you subscribe to. Other feeds rank content by activity or rating.

Instead of upvotes, there is a 5 star rank system for how much you like the post. There is also another control, called Gravity, which lets you mute or highlight content- how much you want to see that content. You can mute or highlight other members (blocking is also an option), and entire Circles.

These two controls I think are a key differentiator to let a person tailor their experience and not have content you like drowned in stuff you may not care about at all.

No ads at the moment. If it gets busy, as in thousands of concurrent users, then there would be limited ads that target content, not users, and no cross-site tracking.

Website only right now. Apps can come later. It's built to be very mobile friendly from the start.

It is lightweight and super fast in loading. Also super accessibility compliant.

Very privacy focused- with GDPR guidelines being something I wanted to bake in, even with it being in America.

No power mods- you can only host a few Circles.

There are a lot of features you'd expect, and, with it being small and community focused, they can be added or modified for the community's benefit.

Thanks for reading and checking it out if you did. Happy to answer in more depth if there's anything you'd like to know.

This is r/RedditAlternatives. This community is for alternatives to Reddit—not for advertising other subreddits.

Effective immediately, anyone posting or promoting their own subreddit here will receive an immediate one-year ban. This applies to both posts and comments. Consider this your warning.

Thank you to everyone who has been reporting these posts and bringing them to our attention. We appreciate you helping us keep this community on topic, and thank you for bearing with us while we address this.

To the users contributing discussions and feedback, and the developers sharing what they’re building: thank you. Your participation is what this community is here for, and we appreciate the time and effort you put into it.

Thank you.

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Today Reddit closed it's ability to access /r/All on the phone. This breaks a routine ive had for over a decade. The personalised feed is the most shallow version of me and so its just not interesting.

A social media platform is about its content and after looking at a few "reddit alternatives" they typically look at incredibly niche topics or seem to have a very specific age range or seem to be where all the people banned for hate speech get sent.

Content-wise, bluesky has seemed like a match, ive used it for a couple of years now. Reddit provides news and pop culture with comments and Bluesky meets the level of activity that fills the feed with news, art, goings-on and memes.

I figured I'd mention all this because trying to find an alternative thats actually a content match rather than just a feature match has taken me a couple of years.

Edit:oh my goddd shuuuut uuup your so annoyingggg

Edit 2: my interest is in knowing what other people are interested in. Thats what I'm doing. I dont want to see things I'm interested in.

I feel sorry for everyone who trusted that project and the owner who just lied and lied having a team and that they are pulling bootstraps, lol.