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Techradar Just Shouted Out Beehaw! (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dirtmayor@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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From the article:

"Beehaw is relatively new and relatively small at the moment, but it's one of the closest approximations of what Reddit is that you're going to find, and well worth investigating as a Reddit replacement. The interface even looks a lot like Reddit, albeit without a lot of the on-screen features and furniture that build up over almost two decades of operation.

Have a read of the Beehaw mission statement and you'll see the platform is committed to avoiding the "hate speech" and "disinformation" that's prevalent elsewhere. The communities available right now cover everything from neurodivergence and people of color to literature and gardening, so you're sure to find something of interest here."

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[–] DrunkandWantingBacon@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Did they really suggest 9gag and slashdot as alternatives? Might as well tell us to go back to digg

[–] UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, they actually DID suggest digg, too.

[–] DrunkandWantingBacon@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, I gave up on the article after seeing slashdot and 9gag. Since I’m too lazy to go back was fark included as an option?

[–] UngodlyAudrey@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Nope. It did have Bluesky for some reason, though. Just a weird list in general.

[–] MobBarley@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

slashdot and 9gag are definitely at different ends of the spectrum afaik
isn't 9gag just a poor man's 8chan

[–] bob@lemmy.havocperil.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, Digg is still around?

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Myspace is, too. Seems like these sites rarely just die, they fade into something extant but irrelevant.

[–] MeowdyPardner@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their last suggestion is actually Digg, so it looks like they got that covered lmao

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I did not even know Digg still existed. Use to be my go to place until they ruined the site. I think that was a monetization thing too. Cannot remember much about it or why I left.

[–] sab@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't even know what Slashdot really is, but I think for a lot of people 9gag will do well as a Reddit replacement. Some people just want dumb memes, doesn't really matter where they come from.

[–] benji@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Slashdot is the pre-cursor to digg and reddit in a lot of ways. It's problem was people wanted freedom to create communities and submit posts whereas /. wanted to be able to control what appeared on their site. Both digg and reddit were responses to that aspect of slashdot. That, and their moderation system tried to be democratic, sharing the load amongst users, rather than installing mods (which ultimately was a failure imo).

[–] eleanor@social.hamington.net 5 points 1 year ago

9gag is a decent alternative if all you used reddit for was browsing meme subs and never commented. But like, I'm pretty sure that that demographic has already been using the official app.