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r/RedditAlternatives doesn't like a Reddit Alternative (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Anonymousllama 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I miss the random non tech centric communities from Reddit. The userbase here, across the fediverse as a whole gravitates towards more tech focused aspects and while that's fine, you miss out on the random topics / subreddits you'd find on Reddit.

(The answer isn't also 'just start that community here', specially I miss randomly getting topics from subjects I wouldn't even search for, but just get surfaced because of the shear amount of content and users Reddit has)

[–] Icaria 13 points 11 months ago

Maybe I'm just weird but I think the tech focus is better.

Like that's where all this started. Kevin Rose wanted a better version of Slashdot, a tech news aggregator, so he created Digg.

And Digg was about tech news for several years before going to a general format, at which point it became trash.

And then Digg's redesign killed the site and everyone flocked to a Digg clone called reddit, even though reddit was a clone of post-shittification Digg, not pre-shittification Digg.

Being tech-focussed really does help. I'd sooner deal with Well Actually neckbeards than the average Facebook user, even if I'm not just interested in tech news.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Check the top hour filter of all instances. That's where other content surfaces.