You can have it fast, good, or cheap: pick two, and unless you’re bankrolling the developer you’ve already chosen cheap.

It was a community built by a former Reddit backend developer, Deimos. He also built the subredditsimulator subs and automoderator, and is looking to purposefully cultivate an online community that avoids some of the common pitfalls, mainly:

• Gravitating over time towards low-effort, lowest common denominator clickbait.
• A culture of lawful-evil trolls who “follow the rules” but are ultimately assholes who ruin the vibe.

Personally I love what he’s done with the place. It’s small, but it’s big enough and I find that the quality of comments is far better than what you might find in most corners of the internet. I’ve also got a few invites if anyone wants to check it out.

Also the Tildes app is astoundingly good for what the developer is calling an “alpha”.

I like the look and feel of Jerboa, but it has a bug on my device where I’ll be typing and it’ll just jump to middle of the post and start deleting/overwriting stuff.

I like how Liftoff can provide a unified All feed with content from all instances, but the feed just looks so noisy and icon-heavy

Connect seems the most well-rounded and the closest to a Relay for Reddit replacement, so I’ve been mainly gravitating toward that.

Thunder just didn’t hit with me for whatever reason.

I wonder how much of that are Reddit-specific problems vs just plain old humans online in a pseudo-anonymous setting problem.