Personally, I've mostly abandoned reddit in favor of tildes. Reddit is an endless sea of content with incredibly varying degrees of quality. Tildes by contrast, has a high concentration of quality posts and an environment that fosters discussion.
I max out at a few short tildes breaks per day. When I was using reddit, it could consume virtually infinite amounts of time, and that's pretty detrimental to a procrastinator such as myself. I consider the relatively low quantity of content on tildes a feature, not a drawback. If I get through some other projects on my mind first, I want start contributing code to help preserve that sense of "limited high-quality content" even as the site grows.
We've talked about using RSS to pull content from other places before. I still think it's a bad idea to do it automatically, but I could see having a little bit of RSS reader functionality that's used to make posting links easier. (Maybe it would be like the "new" feed from Hacker News, but nothing gets promoted to Tildes proper unless someone clicks on an item and uses it to create a topic.)
There's a question of how easy you want to make it; we don't want it so easy that people do it thoughtlessly.
I'd love to see features to help with curation and addition of interesting content, since I've relied on aggregators so long I don't really have any interesting sources of my own. ;)
This kind of feature would need to be gated to facilitate discussion somehow. Perhaps add a .upcoming sub-group that won't bubble up until at least 1 person comments on it.
It might be easier to give recommendations if you shared a little about what your motivations might be?
Do you want general/broad long-form content (e.g. articles) to read when you're bored? Do you want to hear random users' takes on different subjects? Do you want specific content tailored to your interests? Do you want a feeling of community, with getting to know specific people and making online friends? Do you want to participate? What are you looking to get out of participating, and what do you hope to give to others? Engaging discussions? Friendly/welcoming chats? Recurring events between a small, invested group? Personalized recommendations?
For me, Reddit and Tildes scratch very different itches, so I'm a little confused at why you might want to combine them. Tildes isn't just a link aggregator to me, and I like it most because of the community aspects outside of The Feed (TM). If you're looking just for links, that might be part of why Tildes isn't appealing enough to use it regularly?
I use reddit mainly for interesting articles + some discussion + specific/niche (highly technical) content tailored to my interests. I don't really care about a sense of community nor do I care about making friends.
I know that some tildes users might emphasize the high quality content of tildes over the quantity of reddit but even if we assume that 95%+ of reddit is low quality content, from my experience of both using reddit and tildes, the remaining 5% of content on reddit is still more content than tildes. At least this was the case in April. I haven't really used this site since then.
The reason I'm trying to move away from reddit is ethical reasons. So I'm hoping that tildes scratches the same itch that I get from reddit. Obviously, reddit has the network effect which is why I'm trying to combine them seamlessly.
I see Tildes as more of an old-fashioned message board, and I love it for it. It's the difference between an arthouse cinema and a 24 screen multiplex.
json | 6 years ago
@tannercollin made https://news.t0.vc/ which does as read only.
tannercollin | 6 years ago
Slightly strange seeing this very thread on it: https://news.t0.vc/JPTH/c
heady | 6 years ago
Is the source code for this available anywhere?
tannercollin | 5 years ago
Yup, here: https://gogs.tannercollin.com/tanner/qotnews
Customize your subreddits in apiserver/feeds/reddit.py
vord | 6 years ago
Personally, I've mostly abandoned reddit in favor of tildes. Reddit is an endless sea of content with incredibly varying degrees of quality. Tildes by contrast, has a high concentration of quality posts and an environment that fosters discussion.
I max out at a few short tildes breaks per day. When I was using reddit, it could consume virtually infinite amounts of time, and that's pretty detrimental to a procrastinator such as myself. I consider the relatively low quantity of content on tildes a feature, not a drawback. If I get through some other projects on my mind first, I want start contributing code to help preserve that sense of "limited high-quality content" even as the site grows.
Dobbie03 | 6 years ago
This.
seizethegoddamngap | 6 years ago
Once Tildes pushes out API and/or RSS functionality, you could put them both in an RSS reader.
I guess you could create a Tildes RSS feed via a web scraper.
skybrian | 6 years ago
We've talked about using RSS to pull content from other places before. I still think it's a bad idea to do it automatically, but I could see having a little bit of RSS reader functionality that's used to make posting links easier. (Maybe it would be like the "new" feed from Hacker News, but nothing gets promoted to Tildes proper unless someone clicks on an item and uses it to create a topic.)
There's a question of how easy you want to make it; we don't want it so easy that people do it thoughtlessly.
vord | 6 years ago
I'd love to see features to help with curation and addition of interesting content, since I've relied on aggregators so long I don't really have any interesting sources of my own. ;)
This kind of feature would need to be gated to facilitate discussion somehow. Perhaps add a .upcoming sub-group that won't bubble up until at least 1 person comments on it.
vivaria | 6 years ago
It might be easier to give recommendations if you shared a little about what your motivations might be?
Do you want general/broad long-form content (e.g. articles) to read when you're bored? Do you want to hear random users' takes on different subjects? Do you want specific content tailored to your interests? Do you want a feeling of community, with getting to know specific people and making online friends? Do you want to participate? What are you looking to get out of participating, and what do you hope to give to others? Engaging discussions? Friendly/welcoming chats? Recurring events between a small, invested group? Personalized recommendations?
For me, Reddit and Tildes scratch very different itches, so I'm a little confused at why you might want to combine them. Tildes isn't just a link aggregator to me, and I like it most because of the community aspects outside of The Feed (TM). If you're looking just for links, that might be part of why Tildes isn't appealing enough to use it regularly?
[OP] random324 | 5 years ago
I use reddit mainly for interesting articles + some discussion + specific/niche (highly technical) content tailored to my interests. I don't really care about a sense of community nor do I care about making friends.
I know that some tildes users might emphasize the high quality content of tildes over the quantity of reddit but even if we assume that 95%+ of reddit is low quality content, from my experience of both using reddit and tildes, the remaining 5% of content on reddit is still more content than tildes. At least this was the case in April. I haven't really used this site since then.
The reason I'm trying to move away from reddit is ethical reasons. So I'm hoping that tildes scratches the same itch that I get from reddit. Obviously, reddit has the network effect which is why I'm trying to combine them seamlessly.
vivaria | 5 years ago
Do you have specific subreddits you return to often, then? :)
Thrabalen | 6 years ago
I see Tildes as more of an old-fashioned message board, and I love it for it. It's the difference between an arthouse cinema and a 24 screen multiplex.