<story><title>Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?</title><text>Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc86</author><text>Going outside is a really good one.&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I was late to the Reddit train, didn&amp;#x27;t join until 2015 or 2016 or so. I noticed a marked decline in my overall mental well-being but I really did feel addicted to it. For several reasons I stopped using it a few years ago and I can&amp;#x27;t think of a single thing that&amp;#x27;s worse off than before.&lt;p&gt;Unless you&amp;#x27;re running ads and using traffic from Reddit to fuel your business, you&amp;#x27;re not getting any value out of it. I&amp;#x27;d see something on HN and it would be &lt;i&gt;weeks&lt;/i&gt; at best before it would pop up on any of the technical&amp;#x2F;programming subs, and the conversation was always 1&amp;#x2F;10 the quality of here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Niksko</author><text>This is not a good take for the things that Reddit really excelled at: niche hobbies. Mechanical keyboards, mushroom cultivation, home brewing, just to name a few of my interests. None of that gets much traction on HN, nor outside unless your friends happen to have the same interests. Discord has a bit of that content, but I find Discord harder to engage with because it feels a bit more synchronous and time sensitive.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?</title><text>Ask HN: What are some of the best Reddit alternatives?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pc86</author><text>Going outside is a really good one.&lt;p&gt;Honestly, I was late to the Reddit train, didn&amp;#x27;t join until 2015 or 2016 or so. I noticed a marked decline in my overall mental well-being but I really did feel addicted to it. For several reasons I stopped using it a few years ago and I can&amp;#x27;t think of a single thing that&amp;#x27;s worse off than before.&lt;p&gt;Unless you&amp;#x27;re running ads and using traffic from Reddit to fuel your business, you&amp;#x27;re not getting any value out of it. I&amp;#x27;d see something on HN and it would be &lt;i&gt;weeks&lt;/i&gt; at best before it would pop up on any of the technical&amp;#x2F;programming subs, and the conversation was always 1&amp;#x2F;10 the quality of here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_oce_</author><text>Disagree, while it&amp;#x27;s obviously bad to spend all of your free time on a screen, there are some good middle sized subreddits that provided me value for my job or my hobbies.</text></comment>