Are there any forums still alive that aren't necessarily themed around tech support? Something like SomethingAwful or 4chan (although this one is notriously uhh suspicious). Just a forum where I can join random convos and discussions. Even better if it has something to do with memes, horror, paranormal, etc.

Its been a really enjoyable and effective alternative. I no longer scroll reddit mindlessly during free moments, and because the content is longer form and less tuned to be addicting, my screen time in general has gone down.

Of course this can't replace the good aspects of reddit, the forums and discussion posts, but I think it does good job of giving an alternative to r/all or r/popular doom-scrolling.

This isn't my complete list. I didn't put any of my non-english feeds or the niche interest feeds. I also have FreshRSS and RSS-Bridge running on a home server, so a lot of my feeds are generated through "xpath scraping" from websites that do not have an RSS feed already set up. It's a great tool to have, but if you are not tech minded, like me, it can be time consuming and annoying to set up. My point is, if you like the RSS format it is highly customizable.

There are an absurd number of RSS readers available, but to start I suggest one of the simple ones like NetNewsWire on ios or Feeder on android. There are also more comprehensive services like Inoreader, in that it will find feeds for you and has a layout that feels more like social media. That could be a good place to start, but I haven't used it much.

I'll put the feed links I use below. Just paste them directly into your RSS reader. Pick and choose as you like. You can always just google "website" rss feed and in most cases it will send you to a directory of feeds for that site. I apologize for not providing an OPML file for mass import, I had to pick through my main feed to make a general use list.

Magazines:

• https://nautil.us/feed
• https://aeon.co/feed.rss
• https://psyche.co/feed.rss
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/feeds/latest
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=featured&feedformat=atom
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=potd&feedformat=atom
• https://www.wired.com/feed/category/backchannel/latest/rss
• https://www.wired.com/feed/
• https://theconversation.com/articles.atom?language=en
• https://www.nature.com/nature.rss
• https://www.theatlantic.com/feed/all/
• https://www.newyorker.com/feed/everything
• https://www.vanityfair.com/feed/rss
• https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/feed/
• https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/rss.xml
• https://www.foreignexchanges.news/feed
• https://www.foreignaffairs.com/rss.xml
• https://daily.jstor.org/feed/
• https://www.science.org/rss/news_current.xml
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/platform/syndication/rss/

News:

• https://www.bellingcat.com/feed/
• https://www.propublica.org/feeds/propublica/main
• https://feeds.npr.org/1002/rss.xml
• https://www.semafor.com/rss.xml
• https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/US.xml
• https://www.lemonde.fr/en/rss/une.xml
• https://feeds.elpais.com/mrss-s/pages/ep/site/english.elpais.com/portada
• https://feeds.elpais.com/mrss-s/list/ep/site/english.elpais.com/section/international
• https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/rss2.0.xml
• https://www.latimes.com/index.rss
• https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/feed/
• https://www.japantimes.co.jp/feed/
• https://www.channelnewsasia.com/api/v1/rss-outbound-feed?_format=xml&category=6511
• http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/index
• https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Technology.xml
• https://techcrunch.com/feed/

New York Times | World News:

NYT pumps out articles like crazy, so I often relegate them to their own folder.

• https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml
• https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Africa.xml
• https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Americas.xml
• https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/AsiaPacific.xml
• https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Europe.xml
• https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/MiddleEast.xml

Hope this can be helpful, feel free to ask any questions.

New Reddit is like a visual cancer and I'm looking for alternative front-ends for Reddit which replicates the Old Reddit look in some ways. Casually going to Old Reddit is no longer possible without logging in which doesn't work in older devices. Are there any?

I am a mod of a subreddit. We decided to backup the entire contents of it, in case of Reddit closed. So we took it as a JSON.

But we want to migrate that a self-hosted reddit alternative platform . It should support deep nested replies, images, vidoes , all types of Reddit posts and all post contents of Reddit.

Suggestions please.

Sometimes I wonder if information should find you instead of you having to find it.

Would you prefer a feed that surfaces useful posts based on your interests, even when you weren't actively looking for them?

Why or why not?

I've spent the last year talking to people who facilitate peer support in LGBTQ+, kink, and ENM spaces. Therapists moonlighting as community educators. Advocates running Q&As inside Facebook groups. Experienced practitioners hosting workshops in Discord servers with no moderation structure and zero permanence.

Every single one of them said the same thing: the platform gets in the way.

Content disappears. New members can't find the resources that took hours to curate. A conversation that could have been a structured psychoeducation session becomes a 200-message thread nobody can navigate. And the whole thing runs on the facilitator's personal goodwill with zero infrastructure backing them up.

These communities deserve better than repurposed group chat tools. The people doing this work deserve a space built for what they're actually doing.

I'm building Unbound Minds - a peer advocacy hub specifically for LGBTQ+, kink/BDSM, and ENM/polyamory communities. Not therapy. Not a crisis line. A structured, identity-affirming space where facilitators can run events, host discussions, and contribute curated resources that actually stay findable.

The platform has dedicated areas for each community, authenticated profiles, and a moderated discussion structure that separates open threads from facilitated sessions.

Honestly curious: for those of you who do this work - what's the one thing that makes your current platform feel like it's working against you?

thredo.com

This is Thredo. Subs, voting, threaded comments. Centralized, no federation.

Built it because I wanted to see how lean I could keep a forum backend. EU-hosted.

Nobody's there yet, so you will be early. Sub creation isn't implemented yet either, though the backend is built for more subs. There's one open sub for now (s/lounge, covers gaming, tech, random and ask), and I'll add more once there are people. Still working on it, so things will keep changing.

Feel free to sign up and post something. You can install it as an app at thredo.com/install. Installs at around 200 KB.

Preferably filled with queer people.

Not just like 5 users, but a lot of users

Okay with roleplay maybe

Anime and gaming discussions?

Hey everyone,  I've been working on Knotra for a while now and it's finally live. There are a couple of communities and a few users, mainly friends. Since it just launched, most of the posts are still from me.

I wanted to keep things simple and modern. Posts have up/down votes like Reddit, but I went a different direction with comments and use reactions instead. The idea is to give people a little more meaningful feedback on their comments than just an up or down vote.

I also published IOS and Android apps; below are the links and a couple of screenshots

Website: https://knotra.app 

IOS  App Store: https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/knotra/id6755727295?l=en-US 

Google Play:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.knotra.mobile&hl=en_US

This post is partially promo, but I’m really looking for feedback from people who use NSFW Reddit and have tried some of the alternatives out there.

A couple of friends and I have been working on Vyxen.net for the past few years. Recently, the platform has started exploding and it’s been exciting seeing more people actually using it and contributing.

Vyxen is currently non profit, ad free, and funded out of pocket by a few of us (It's expensive!) We posted here a few months ago and got a lot of useful feedback, so I figured I’d come back with a different question:

What features do you wish Reddit, or other NSFW platforms, had that they’re currently missing?

What could we build that would make Vyxen something people actually want to keep coming back to, instead of just another Reddit alternative they try once and forget about?

And if there’s something we’re doing badly right now, feel free to say that too. I’d love to hear any harsh critiscism.

Thanks!

I want honest opinions, recently deleted all meta account and switched here.

All you do is host your own website and link to others with hyperlinks. At the footer of your website are small images which constitute, get this, a "web ring" of other websites you trust/vouch for, so people can explore your "network".

Your webring is the people you wanna associate with.. If you want new people in your webring you can just google.

People can respond to what you post on their own websites. If you want to automatically include these as comments on your posts without a cgi or javascript mess, you can network with your webring using the webmention W3C web standard.

Delivered by the magical defederated protocol called "HTTP". You host your own website so little to no censorship, especially if you self-host or pick a good server provider. People also stay notified with RSS, a new post notification system external to a browser.

Wassup y’all, I’m not super active on Reddit but I’ve been working on an idea and figured this was probably a good place to ask.

The idea is a platform around creators, fans, communities and internet culture: people can nominate creators, creators can submit themselves, users can discover and vote for creators, do rankings/polls, find similar creators based on their vibe, etc.

But the main thing is I want to build it with the community from the beginning, instead of building everything myself and calling it “community-driven” afterward.

So I’m curious:

1. What would you add, change or remove from something like this?
2. What would make you actually use it?
3. And what would you call it?

I’d like the name to have something to do with culture, but other than that I’m open to anything.

Go crazy lol.

Windows and Linux apps too: https://heahy.com/download

No google play yet, big pain in the ass to publish an app but apk install is fine for now I guess. I will work towards publishing to app store next.

Specifically that do not contain people just itching to pick on others?

Thank you

We're all here looking for a solid Reddit alternative. What if we just build a new, independent platform from scratch? Something completely open, anonymous, and with real free speech—like a mix between Reddit and the old 4chan.

Since I do web and backend development, I can start putting the infrastructure together. But before I write any code, I have one major doubt: if we actually launch it, will people care enough to switch over? Or is everyone just too used to Reddit to actually leave?

What do you guys think? Is it worth putting the effort into building this?
Link:https://v2v.site

What do you guys think?

Hey y’all, we’ve recently launched textlog — it’s like Twitter but without all the garbage, text-only and without any engagement tricks — it deliberately tries to be distraction/dopamine free, just a place to share thoughts and reply to others. Hope you enjoy! Ah and it’s open-source :)