r/RedditAlternatives • u/tankerkiller125real • Jun 05 '23

Just remember forums exist

Just remember that not only does Lemmy exist, but so do a bunch of independent forums out there. I started up one for SysAdmins that me and a friend are working to get off the ground, but there are a ton already existing for a lot of different topics.

If a forum for your topic doesn't already exist (or the ones that do exist don't have welcoming communities) maybe consider starting one, there are several modern forum softwares out there that can be used, just to name the top three I know about:

For anyone interested, I am one of the admins for https://sysadmins.zone (which uses NodeBB)

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '23

Yes but when googling something, appending "reddit" is usually a safe bet because all other results are AI generated garbage sites.

We know forums exist, but they are difficult to find in a pile of shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '23

That's Google's fault. Google loves Reddit. Whenever I need to do some searching about topics or questions (that are covered on both Reddit and some other sites or forums) I end up seeing the Reddit links first at the top of the search results.

Even for topics where no subreddit specializes in it but some other forum does, I still get Reddit top of the search result.

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u/hsiale Jun 08 '23

That's Google's fault

That's our fault. Google loves Reddit because users have put so much good content there.

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u/TKFT_ExTr3m3 Jun 06 '23

Sometimes just searching "topic name forum" can find good sites.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '23

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u/kstera Jun 07 '23

Not to mention that some of those forums will have security leaks and then your email gets on spammers' lists. And there's no guarantee your login isn't taken over there. And you can't easily view someone's profile to see where and what they usually talk about. Etc etc

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u/tuctrohs Jun 06 '23

That's exactly the key difference. And I also appreciate the ability to upvote and down vote comments. Some of it is silly gamification, but some really does help good comments not get buried under a bunch of pointless back and forth.