I'm beyond tired of hearing about reddit's problems. I know I can filter certain users but I'd rather not as most of them have other interesting submissions. Can't we just agree reddit is a failed site and move on?
I made this complaint last week, and someone pointed out ignoring #reddit ... but I don't want to ignore #reddit -- I just want to be able to trust the people I follow to only post interesting things. Occasionally those things might happen to be about reddit, like the post a few weeks back about the similarity between reddit gold and hubski badges. Blanket ignoring a tag is not a perfect solution.
Right now Hubski is basically "Hubski: Because it's not Reddit."
I've never been on Reddit because when I had some time to consume there used to be a great french-speaking site doing the job and filling my needs (called kopikol for whoever cares). Then I pretty much lost time for that active passiveness. I was made aware of Hacker News (HN) in 2011 by someone who knew I was into web creation ; and from there I once discovered Hubski, which happened to be much broader than HN and at the same time very quiet comment-wise (any reddit is filled with 500 comments and dare I say, I've felt like Hubski is on a trench since that day redditors came en masse and for that reason am participating way less). AMA
If you follow the right people you can pretty much avoid all of the reddit talk. I would suggest "ignoring" the #reddit tag as a start. That said, there have been some really great new people on Hubski that came over recently. It's not all bad IMO.
Upspoke (is that the right word?). I wouldn't have registered if there didn't seem to be some novel features here. But I also think it will take a lot more users to see if it's more resilient than reddit, like when spammers decide to pay attention.
I completely agree with this sentiment, but from what I can tell there are many people who use both sites, and many of those people 'know' each other, to the extent you can know people online. I think it's natural for people to discuss things they're familiar with at first, so there will probably be some mentions and cross-references. However, I imagine the people who care enough to check this place out and stay will be the ones who are mature enough to leave that kind of thing at the door.
Discuss yes, but that doesn't mean that hubski has to be seen as only a reaction to reddit. It sort of demeans the work that has been put into the site to view it as only existing because reddit got too big to survive.
Agreed, and that's not how I see it at all. I haven't seen anything other than syncretic's post, but I imagine there were enough to warrant the OP's request. I'm just saying it's to be expected when people first discover others they had something in common with, and that it will likely die down after a short time.
Syncretic has been pushing hubski for a couple months now, as have other of Reddit's powerusers. When a well-known community member jumps ship, his followers will, well, follow in his stead. I'm fairly sure that Syncretic wanted his legion of followers from reddit to come here with him, though.
Doubtful. It's kind of the way humans work, you know? We identify people as friends, foes, allies, enemies, whatever, and tend to carry those associations from one context into another. I get why that's frustrating for someone who might want to sort of make a fresh start on a new site (and especially someone who admits to awful behavior elsewhere and doesn't want that following them around - sorry, them's the breaks), but it's just kind of the way people work.
I've been on Reddit for two years and never identified a subset of people on there as friends or enemies. I think mileage really varies person-to-person and it also depends on what users are looking for online. If you're not looking for that kind of community, or if you're looking to Hubski for information and interesting articles, the Reddit circlejerking really gets in the way.
It'll be hard, seeing that most of us are fleeing exactly at this moment. Quite a relief to find a site with a better system, and that makes it easier to rant about bad guy reddit. Expectable. But yeah, I suppose you're right that there shouldn't come much meta-reddit stuff on here.
Maybe I'm coming off as childish but this site has been my escape from places like reddit for over a year now. I admit I'm a nasty guy on reddit; a troll, whatever, but I wipe that persona off at the doormat before coming here. I too could rant about how much reddit sucks but I don't because it changes nothing.
I agree. I have some beef with various aspects of the reddit ecosystems, but at this point I'd really just let them fade into memory than worry about them.
I've been an inactive user on Hubski for nearly a year and I'm sort of embarrassed to admit that gobbling up the syncretic drama is the only reason why I came back. So, thanks syncretic.
Reddit no longer is "hiveminding basement-dwelling neckbeards" it has stepped up in culture to mainstream "hiveminding". Yesterday my boss asked me if I had seen the Nate Silver interview on "reddit?". Then again, a lot of the world seems to be co-opting what was the "culture" of basement-dwellers, which is so strange by itself. Nerds/geeks have ascended.
Luckily I work in an office where I have a strong job security and it is driven by getting stuff done not by being there for 8 hours, so the boss man doesn't care if I spend time on reddit as long as things get done. Also, hubski uses vertical bars for quotes so surround it in |
I don't consider reddit failed, and I will continue to use it a lot, but of course I'll attempt to keep that stuff away from here.