Hi Snapzu, I'm Namo. This is the story how I ended up here.
I used slash-dot for a long time, I don't know if I ever made an account there, but it seemed like the best place to get links that were related to my interests. After a few years of breaking servers as part of the slash-dot effect, I heard about this great place that was made up of entirely user created content. I watched diggnation podcasts every week, then other Rev3 shows like Totally Rad Show.
I moved from Digg to Reddit some 6 years ago. I felt Digg had grown too big and the community felt a bit hostile and competitive. It wasn't a place where I could just log in and relax for few hours anymore. So I packed my bookmarks, and moved to reddit. I looked like something from 1995, but the content was great and the community was like-minded and nice. The ascetic look also seemed to filter certain type of people away from it. It became my main time-sink for the next 6 years.
I started resent reddit a bit for all the time my wasted there. It wasn't quality time anymore. It felt toxic. There were so much hate and negativity. It was there for a long time, but I really started to feel it around the gamergate. Users were used to the free speech they've had so far, so the resulting censorship was just throwing gasoline on the flames. I found myself unsubscribing from more and more subreddits, and mostly using hacker news for my programming and science interests.
I knew there were some twisted subreddits, but I never sought them out. Reddit made sure to bring them to my knowledge by starting to ban them. More torches, more gasoline, more hatred leaking to subreddits previously unaffected. I deleted my account to finalize my decision. I'm not going back there.
Enter Snapzu, first impression; looks pretty complicated. Snaps have modules? Then again, if reddits ascetic look fed the "mind over matter" in the start, maybe this feeds "quality over quantity" which I'm so thirsty for right now. Invited a few frinds, started a tribe... I think I already like this place.
I'm into 3d-printing, programming (mostly Golang), science news and 80's computers.
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Welcome to possibly the best reddit alternative (if the community stays this awesome)!
Thank you! It does look like the most promising alternative I've seen.
Welcome! Do you own a 3d printer? What's some cool stuff you've made?
Thank you!
I own Prusa i3, with E3D v6 nozzle. I haven't done anything bigger yet, but I plan to build a FPV quadcopter with 3d printed frame in the near future.
Huh same interests as me. I wonder how many others like us came over.
Hopefully a lot! Already found /t/3dprinting and /t/programming. I created a new one for /t/golang.
Welcome, great into! Great to have you!
Welcome! Glad you can join us namo!
I too left Reddit recently. I still have my account there but I no longer browse. I visit some subreddits from time to time but that's about it. I agree that it was becoming more and more toxic. Discussion was being sidelined for cheap laughs and memes. Don't get me wrong, I love the occasional "dank meme", but not every single minute. It was especially bad in the more niche communities because those were the exact communities that I visited to get away from the circlejerk.
I hope you find Snapzu to be an awesome place :) I was blown away when I came here and haven't looked back.
Yeah, comment section changed a lot. People didn't downvote (as much) differing opinions, that was the big thing. Now it was just links approved by the hive-mind with comments approved by the hive-mind, and puns... so much puns. But I do have a soft spot for related gifs.
Oh man, the puns. The puns were so bad. Partly the reason why I only looked at the [Serious]AskReddit threads. At least there I could get some quality stuff.
Well, there's a very different culture surrounding the down vote here as well. Unless the content explicitly violates the sites or tribe's rules, even if you don't personally like the content, you don't down vote it. The button should be used extremely sparingly and only in cases of spamming/trolling/harassment etc.
I too am a Reddit-refugee. This is exactly what started turning me off to Reddit. The comment section was no longer a place for discussion but rather an echo-chamber for the hate and toxicity that seems to have completely infiltrated that community. I opened an account here when it was still in early beta and mostly forgot about it while I tried to cope with the ever increasing amount of BS on Reddit. I ran here during the most recent debacle and also created an account over at voat. I am worried that the mass exodus will ruin the community at Voat so I have an account on both sites to see which one remains the least toxic through the influx of new users.
3d printing, awesome! Do you have your own printer? If so, which one?