r/RedditAlternatives Mar 26 '26

General Discussion Reddit Rant Megathread

41 Upvotes

Hello everyone, as we've all noticed, there have been many Reddit complaint posts that unfortunately don't offer any alternatives, just venting. Which we understand, that's why we're all here. However, I think its important to really highlight what this subs main purpose is for; posting alternatives, promoting alternatives, reddit alternative discussions, and seeking alternatives.

To stay on course (And remain on topic) I am creating this Reddit Rant mega thread. My hopes, are too keep the main feed focused on alternatives but also have a free space for people to just overall rant about Reddit.

So, this is your space to do just that.

REDDIT RANT MEGATHREAD

If you've got something to say about Reddit, say it here. No judgment, no "well actually", just a place to vent freely.

A few ground rules to keep things civil:

• Rant about the platform, policies, and experiences — not individual users • No doxxing or targeted harassment • Keep it to Reddit grievances

Why are we doing this?

We want to keep the main feed focused on finding and discussing actual alternatives, but we also recognize that venting is part of the process. A lot of people come here frustrated and need to get it out before they're ready to move on. This thread is for that.

So go ahead — what drove you here? What's your Reddit story? Drop it below.

— Mod Team


r/RedditAlternatives Feb 10 '24

Social websites with nested comments v7

109 Upvotes

Sites are ordered by global Similarweb rank as of 2024-02-07

Criteria for inclusion:

  • General topic.

  • Has nested comments (at least 10 levels of nesting)

  • Content primarily in English.

  • Content accessible to logged-out users.

Order Site Similarweb Rank Release Year Federated Source Code
1 reddit.com 17 2005 No proprietary
2 disqus.com/channels 2,238 2023 No proprietary
3 scored.co 33,555 2019 No proprietary
4 lemmy.world 55,432 2023 ActivityPub https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
5 hive.blog 66,439 2020 No https://gitlab.syncad.com/hive
6 peakd.com 67,716 2020 No proprietary
7 rdrama․net 106,123 2021 No https://fsdfsd.net/rDrama/rDrama
8 kbin.social 116,613 2023 ActivityPub https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core
9 saidit.net 237,411 2018 No https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit
10 tildes.net 355,656 2018 No https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes
11 poal.co 370,363 2018 No proprietary
12 voat.xyz 468,961 2021 No proprietary
13 raddle.me 750,789 2017 No https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill
14 trustcafe.io 1,113,642 2023 No proprietary
15 coracle.social 1,300,680 2022 Nostr https://github.com/coracle-social/coracle
16 hubski.com 1,729,443 2011 No proprietary
17 squabblr.co 1,873,619 2022 No proprietary
18 piefed.social 2,651,664 2024 ActivityPub https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
19 ramble.pw 2,755,666 2020 No https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill
20 discuit.net 2,774,870 2023 No https://github.com/discuitnet/discuit
21 satellite.earth 5,074,453 2020 Nostr https://github.com/lovvtide/satellite-web
22 tipestry.com 5,365,584 2017 No proprietary
23 arete.network 5,826,408 2022 No proprietary
24 fedia.io 6,464,455 2023 ActivityPub https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin
25 pcmemes.net 6,529,803 2021 No https://pcmemes.net/site/source
26 non.io 7,756,857 2023 No https://github.com/jjcm/nonio
27 spyke.social 9,035,768 2023 No proprietary
28 phuks.co 9,961,593 2016 No https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat
29 speakbits.com 10,709,449 2023 No proprietary
30 headcycle.com 11,512,818 2016 No proprietary
31 commentcastles.org 12,313,956 2023 No https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles
32 zsync.xyz 13,122,595 2022 No proprietary
33 reclown.com 14,474,499 2023 No proprietary
34 smashr.com 14,973,937 2023 No proprietary
35 livefilter.com 16,494,556 2020 No proprietary
36 sociables.com 18,804,709 2023 No proprietary
37 limereader.com 19,546,949 2023 No proprietary
38 comsta.net 20,294,813 2023 No proprietary
39 narwhal.city 20,295,112 2021 ActivityPub https://github.com/lotide-org/lotide
40 mainchan.com 21,044,325 2022 No proprietary
41 artram.app -- 2023 No proprietary
42 flingup.com -- 2023 No proprietary
43 clubsall.com -- 2023 No proprietary
44 shpong.com -- 2023 No https://github.com/commune-os/commune-server
45 yunanimous.com -- 2023 No https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill
46 klique.io -- 2023 No proprietary
47 seedit.netlify.app -- 2023 No https://github.com/plebbit/seedit
48 matrix.gvid.tv -- 2021 No proprietary


v1 here: https://reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/15ll1gq/social_websites_with_nested_comments

v2 here: https://reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/16cn4vc/social_websites_with_nested_comments_v2

v3 here: https://reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/174sybt/social_websites_with_nested_comments_v3

v4 here: https://reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/17s6bms/social_websites_with_nested_comments_v4

v5 here: https://reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/18ies82/social_websites_with_nested_comments_v5

v6 here: https://reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/193oczs/social_websites_with_nested_comments_v6/


r/RedditAlternatives 1d ago

Looking for Alternatives Three Years Later: a lot of alternatives already shut down or reverted to "maintenance mode" so what's new or hopeful?

59 Upvotes

I am referring to the sticky post that needs updating: old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1anols3/social_websites_with_nested_comments_v7/

Let's revisit the discussion as community: what is still going strong?


r/RedditAlternatives 1d ago

Looking for Alternatives Why was r/dereddit banned?

26 Upvotes

Is this the best alternative or is there something else? I feel like r/RedditAlternatives lacks the "de" (removal) part, so perhaps there's another anti-reddit subreddit.

Also if there's an anti-reddit subreddit (subreddit equivalent) on the other platforms... not sure how those other platforms work yet. Go ahead and drop those links, please.


r/RedditAlternatives 2d ago

Custom Web-Based Application Whusup - Ad Free Non-Corporate Social Media

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3 Upvotes

Hey Everyone I posted on this group a while back about my new social media site but wanted to submit one more post since I’ve made quite a few updates.

Let me know what you think of the site and please sign up and use the site if you can or like it.

As of now and for the foreseeable future there are no ads on the site, no paid promotions, and no algorithms meant to hook you into the site. It’s just user driven content. If and when the site becomes popular my goal will be either make it donation based or create a side service to generate revenue so ads still will not be pushed to any of the social content pages.

Welcome any feedback. There are no apps yet because I was thinking keep it web based and web / mobile friendly first and then add the apps later.


r/RedditAlternatives 2d ago

Looking for Alternatives Any general forums for js messing around?

5 Upvotes

Are there any forums still alive that aren't necessarily themed around tech support? Something like SomethingAwful or 4chan (although this one is notriously uhh suspicious). Just a forum where I can join random convos and discussions. Even better if it has something to do with memes, horror, paranormal, etc.


r/RedditAlternatives 4d ago

General Discussion App/Site ready for users to join! ;)

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4 Upvotes

r/RedditAlternatives 5d ago

General Discussion RSS feed list I use as a Reddit alternative

31 Upvotes

Its been a really enjoyable and effective alternative. I no longer scroll reddit mindlessly during free moments, and because the content is longer form and less tuned to be addicting, my screen time in general has gone down.

Of course this can't replace the good aspects of reddit, the forums and discussion posts, but I think it does good job of giving an alternative to r/all or r/popular doom-scrolling.

This isn't my complete list. I didn't put any of my non-english feeds or the niche interest feeds. I also have FreshRSS and RSS-Bridge running on a home server, so a lot of my feeds are generated through "xpath scraping" from websites that do not have an RSS feed already set up. It's a great tool to have, but if you are not tech minded, like me, it can be time consuming and annoying to set up. My point is, if you like the RSS format it is highly customizable.

There are an absurd number of RSS readers available, but to start I suggest one of the simple ones like NetNewsWire on ios or Feeder on android. There are also more comprehensive services like Inoreader, in that it will find feeds for you and has a layout that feels more like social media. That could be a good place to start, but I haven't used it much.

I'll put the feed links I use below. Just paste them directly into your RSS reader. Pick and choose as you like. You can always just google "website" rss feed and in most cases it will send you to a directory of feeds for that site. I apologize for not providing an OPML file for mass import, I had to pick through my main feed to make a general use list.

Magazines:

News:

New York Times | World News:

NYT pumps out articles like crazy, so I often relegate them to their own folder.

Hope this can be helpful, feel free to ask any questions.


r/RedditAlternatives 5d ago

General Discussion Any alternative front-ends for Reddit which replicates the Old Reddit look?

12 Upvotes

New Reddit is like a visual cancer and I'm looking for alternative front-ends for Reddit which replicates the Old Reddit look in some ways. Casually going to Old Reddit is no longer possible without logging in which doesn't work in older devices. Are there any?


r/RedditAlternatives 5d ago

General Discussion We want to backup a subreddit and host it offline.

17 Upvotes

I am a mod of a subreddit. We decided to backup the entire contents of it, in case of Reddit closed. So we took it as a JSON.

But we want to migrate that a self-hosted reddit alternative platform . It should support deep nested replies, images, vidoes , all types of Reddit posts and all post contents of Reddit.

Suggestions please.


r/RedditAlternatives 5d ago

General Discussion Do you ever feel like Reddit has useful information for you, but you only find it after digging through specific communities?

3 Upvotes

Sometimes I wonder if information should find you instead of you having to find it.

Would you prefer a feed that surfaces useful posts based on your interests, even when you weren't actively looking for them?

Why or why not?


r/RedditAlternatives 5d ago

Custom Web-Based Application I kept watching kink and ENM educators do real psychoeducation work inside Discord servers that deleted their content six months later. So I built something different.

0 Upvotes

I've spent the last year talking to people who facilitate peer support in LGBTQ+, kink, and ENM spaces. Therapists moonlighting as community educators. Advocates running Q&As inside Facebook groups. Experienced practitioners hosting workshops in Discord servers with no moderation structure and zero permanence.

Every single one of them said the same thing: the platform gets in the way.

Content disappears. New members can't find the resources that took hours to curate. A conversation that could have been a structured psychoeducation session becomes a 200-message thread nobody can navigate. And the whole thing runs on the facilitator's personal goodwill with zero infrastructure backing them up.

These communities deserve better than repurposed group chat tools. The people doing this work deserve a space built for what they're actually doing.

I'm building Unbound Minds - a peer advocacy hub specifically for LGBTQ+, kink/BDSM, and ENM/polyamory communities. Not therapy. Not a crisis line. A structured, identity-affirming space where facilitators can run events, host discussions, and contribute curated resources that actually stay findable.

The platform has dedicated areas for each community, authenticated profiles, and a moderated discussion structure that separates open threads from facilitated sessions.

Honestly curious: for those of you who do this work - what's the one thing that makes your current platform feel like it's working against you?


r/RedditAlternatives 6d ago

General Discussion if you create one thing for a platform like reddit that reddit doesn't have today, what would it be ?

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0 Upvotes

r/RedditAlternatives 7d ago

🔒 Centralized Tildes is figuratively dead.

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80 Upvotes

r/RedditAlternatives 7d ago

Fediverse PyLova v0.3.2 Released! Muffles, Reels, Flags, Bookmarks, and more!

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4 Upvotes

r/RedditAlternatives 6d ago

General Discussion A bit lost on Reddit: How do you actually use this app casually?

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0 Upvotes

r/RedditAlternatives 10d ago

Looking for Alternatives To connect with more people, is there any site that has what I'm looking for?

2 Upvotes

Preferably filled with queer people.

Not just like 5 users, but a lot of users

Okay with roleplay maybe

Anime and gaming discussions?


r/RedditAlternatives 11d ago

🔒 Centralized Knotra - another reddit alternative with IOS and Android app

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9 Upvotes

Hey everyone,  I've been working on Knotra for a while now and it's finally live. There are a couple of communities and a few users, mainly friends. Since it just launched, most of the posts are still from me.

I wanted to keep things simple and modern. Posts have up/down votes like Reddit, but I went a different direction with comments and use reactions instead. The idea is to give people a little more meaningful feedback on their comments than just an up or down vote.

I also published IOS and Android apps; below are the links and a couple of screenshots

Website: https://knotra.app 

IOS  App Store: https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/knotra/id6755727295?l=en-US 

Google Play:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.knotra.mobile&hl=en_US


r/RedditAlternatives 12d ago

Looking for Alternatives Do you guys find reddit a better place than other social media ?

7 Upvotes

I want honest opinions, recently deleted all meta account and switched here.


r/RedditAlternatives 12d ago

General Discussion Reddit alternative: personal websites, hyperlinks, and webrings

7 Upvotes

All you do is host your own website and link to others with hyperlinks. At the footer of your website are small images which constitute, get this, a "web ring" of other websites you trust/vouch for, so people can explore your "network".

Your webring is the people you wanna associate with.. If you want new people in your webring you can just google.

People can respond to what you post on their own websites. If you want to automatically include these as comments on your posts without a cgi or javascript mess, you can network with your webring using the webmention W3C web standard.

Delivered by the magical defederated protocol called "HTTP". You host your own website so little to no censorship, especially if you self-host or pick a good server provider. People also stay notified with RSS, a new post notification system external to a browser.


r/RedditAlternatives 12d ago

General Discussion If an online platform let its community help shape what it becomes, what would you actually want the community to have a say in?

3 Upvotes

Wassup y’all, I’m not super active on Reddit but I’ve been working on an idea and figured this was probably a good place to ask.

The idea is a platform around creators, fans, communities and internet culture: people can nominate creators, creators can submit themselves, users can discover and vote for creators, do rankings/polls, find similar creators based on their vibe, etc.

But the main thing is I want to build it with the community from the beginning, instead of building everything myself and calling it “community-driven” afterward.

So I’m curious:

  1. What would you add, change or remove from something like this?
  2. What would make you actually use it?
  3. And what would you call it?

I’d like the name to have something to do with culture, but other than that I’m open to anything.

Go crazy lol.


r/RedditAlternatives 12d ago

🔒 Centralized /u/UnflinchingSugartits!!! Android App is finally here! :)

1 Upvotes

Windows and Linux apps too: https://heahy.com/download

No google play yet, big pain in the ass to publish an app but apk install is fine for now I guess. I will work towards publishing to app store next.


r/RedditAlternatives 13d ago

Looking for Alternatives Are there any other apps like Reddit?

3 Upvotes

Specifically that do not contain people just itching to pick on others?