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Tildes.net – a non-profit, open-source, text-focused Reddit alternative

by Quanttek on 6/16/23, 5:22 PM with 13 comments

• by predictabl3 on 6/16/23, 10:20 PM

  I'll sign up for Tilde the second someone can name me a platform that has out-lasted reddit, without selling customer data, and without being federated

  I've yet to hear an example, and I have a functioning memory, and not eager to keep repeating this same cycle.

  It's like password managers. Every few years the current popular one has a misstep and everyone flocks to the next closed source, for-profit alternative. Meanwhile I've been using "pass" for over a decade. Do we think it took me longer to learn pass, or longer for folks to migrate hundreds of passwords multiple times?

• by afruitpie on 6/16/23, 6:51 PM

  Being an invite-only alpha kills Tildes for me, even though I’m interested in it. It seems the closest to what I want out of a Reddit alternative.

  I would hope the community would understand outages, bugs, and oddities if they made Tilde an open alpha.

• by satvikpendem on 6/16/23, 7:52 PM

  I love reading Tildes, it's great. It reminds me of reddit back when they started, and of HN: interesting discussion without jokes and puns destroying the discourse on the site. I find a similar quality of discourse on https://themotte.org as well, even if the topics are a bit more politically charges, sometimes.