Many of you reading this post today will have come from Reddit.
If you are looking for thoughtful conversation, you have found the right place. That is and will remain to be our goal.
Many of you might be looking for a Reddit replacement. For some of you, Hubski will serve that purpose reasonably well. For some of you, Hubski will not work well as a replacement for Reddit.
I started Hubski about five years ago with the goal of creating a place where quality discussion could thrive. Three others (thenewgreen, insomniasexx, and forwardslash) are now part of team Hubski. Together, and with a lot of help from the Hubski community, we have come pretty close to achieving that goal.
If you are interested in trying Hubski out, it might be worth reading about our moderation (each user is his/her own mod), about our privacy policy (we log next to nothing), and about our stance on personal content (we welcome it).
Like most things worthwhile, Hubski takes some getting used to. It will take some time to discover all of the functionality, and to get a feel for how the site works. Feel free to ask us and community for tips and clarification.
If you are looking for a place to create or participate in a community like /r/fatpeoplehate, you won’t like Hubski. We want to host content that is worthy of thoughtful discussion. For that reason, we may remove content that only serves for titillation. We have always been clear on that, and we don’t want to pull a bait and switch on any one. That is not a cool thing to do.
Every community site must decide what kind of content they want to host, and they should be clear about it. Our litmus test for content is this:
If the content can be considered to be a topic for thoughtful discussion by a reasonable person, it should stay on Hubski.
Of course, the application of that measure can be debated, but it is up to you to determine if we do a good job at it. If you think we aren’t doing a good job, let us know.
Our servers are under a lot of strain right now, so the site is slower than normal. We are actively working on it.
Welcome to Hubski.
kleinbl00's Top 10 Travel Tips for Redditors Abroad 1) There is no default content. You must build your own feed. As pointed out by usuallymatt, you are following only #newtohubski initially. This can be changed in your settings. I wholeheartedly recommend viewing "badges" and finding topics and users that interest you. 2) Your user experience is highly customizable. Your front page is not my front page is not my style is not your style. Click on your username (upper left) and mess about. 3) Tags are not subreddits. A post can be a part of three different tags, while subreddits are exclusive (but prone to duplication/crossposting - crossposting is not a thing on Hubski). Further, tags have no moderators. Further, nothing has moderators. 4) Because your user experience is likely to be more heavily driven by the people you interact with than the subjects you interact with, it's a really good idea to be civil. The people you are rude to will be rude to you next week and you'll find that nobody wants to chat with you. 5) There is no banning, shadow- or otherwise. Act obnoxiously enough and people will slowly start ignoring you and muting you. In other words, the bigger dick you are, the fewer opportunities will be granted to you to be a dick. Fortunately this takes a while and most of us are forgiving (and muting and ignoring are 100% reversible). 6) LURK MOAR. Seriously. This is a phrase that has largely been forgotten by everyone who grew up after AOL but there's a lot to be learned from simply observing for a while. If you just can't restrain yourself, that's okay, too - all of us have the option to "filter" your posts and comments for the first 48 hours of your account's existence. Don't take this personally. We just find that we can participate on Hubski in subjects other than Reddit when we give you guys a little space. And that's really what we're doing - giving you space. 7) The markup is weird. "markup tips" in the upper right of any comment box will explain what's weird about it, but not why. The "why" is because this is a hobby project, not a silicon valley social media giant valued at a half billion dollars. 8) Clicking on a username will tell you a lot more about a user on Hubski than on Reddit. Click on your own name, for example, and notice that you can actually fill out a bio. You don't have to, but it does underline the point that Hubski's is not a throwaway culture. 9) There are no downvotes and "sharing" is NOT the same thing as upvoting. When you click the dot, it means "I want my friends to see this" not "I approve." 10) Bad URLs will give you Zork references. Fuck yeah, Zork. Enjoy your stay.
Hi there! Here is hoping for a better experience and thank you for the warm welcome. I'll go back to lurking for a few weeks until I get the hang of this place. =)
Welcome! I transplanted from Reddit a while back and I can tell you that you have to work a little bit harder for your content at first, but the content, the comments, and the community in general are really cool. It's much more like reddit 6 years ago, if that helps... the comments are truly interesting, even if there are fewer of them. Have fun!
Good job on the introduction tips! I joined two years ago and I wish something like that has been there.. I just remember some Hubski veterans were grumpy when the Reddit wave arrived, so I was welcomed with a lot more negativity, so good job! :) The thing which I always try to explain to redditors on reddit when they mention hubski, is, that it's way more personal than reddit and many new people will underestimate that. I think a good analogy for Hubski is a table in a bar where 10-20 people are sitting and having a chat. And you just entered that pub. In real life, you wouldn't just join the table and be like: HEY GUYS, LOOK AT MY CAT! And once you join the table, you will realise that many people on that table have personal connections and at the beginning there will be a lot of stuff you don't get. But after a while of listening to the stories and getting to learn the characters of the people, the 'bar visitors' will welcome you to join their group of regulars to share your story and ideas. This is what describes my experience as a redditor the best. I hope it'll help some people to understand this place a bit better :)
That's an analogy used pretty often here, you're spot on! And it s true that there have been less friendly reactions to the reddit influxes before because of how the site mechanics worked. There has been some tweeks and now people can chose to ignore the newskis for 48h until everything settles down to normal and participate in the usual content instead. I actually like the influxes, explaining the site and welcoming new users but i can see how some people might find it disruptive. Everybody that came over seem really cool, welcome :)
This is... you know, I could get used to this! Hubski's certainly not what I'm used to, but it's very... refreshing. And I quite like that! Thank you for the tips and warm welcome!3) Tags are not subreddits. A post can be a part of three different tags, while subreddits are exclusive (but prone to duplication/crossposting - crossposting is not a thing on Hubski). Further, tags have no moderators. Further, nothing has moderators.
Dang... I used to love Reddit because it was a good way to keep in touch with the sentiment of the internet. I almost always browsed /r/all where I could see the most popular posts, free from filters or bias. Now I can't rely on Reddit to give me an unbiased view. I could accept when subreddits sharing illegal content were banned. I wouldn't have wanted redditors to end up in prison. But these new policies Reddit is enforcing... I don't agree with most of what FPH did, but they weren't doing anything illegal. It would have been so easy for people to filter out FPH on /r/all with RES. Instead they compromised the integrity of the site and went with the nuclear option. Unfortunate.
Yes. It's a modification of markdown. Some syntax is the same, but there are a few differences. Text surrounded by asterisks (*) is italicized. Text surrounded by plus signs (+) is bolded. Text surrounded by vertical bars (|) is quoted. If you double-click a paragraph, it will be quoted. Text surrounded by tildes (~) is blocked out. Symbols such as *, +, |, and ~ can be used literally by placed a \ in front of the text. A user's name surrounded by at signs (@) links to their profile, and the user is notified that you mentioned them. A word surrounded by hash signs (#) becomes a tag and links to posts with that tag. Blank lines separate paragraphs. Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim in a different font. URLs become links. Text can link to URLs by using the following format: /linked text
That was not easy to do. Image URLs (.png, .tif, and .jpg) will embed automatically.
Yo. As someone who didn't really use reddit to much, some of this is a bit confusing to me. If I want to make certain text link to a certain website, I gather from this that i would to the / before the text thing. My question is, where does the link go? As in, how does it know where to link the text to? Furthermore, does imputing a link to a video automatically paste that link as the video itself in the post?
Because me feed was suddenly populated with a bunch of posts titled "Hello" or "I'm new here" or some other such permutation. I don't want to see that stuff, and it disappoints me when those posts get shared by people I otherwise want to follow. Perhaps I'll refollow after the dust settles.
I've followed a few tags yet when I go to the main page I see all sorts of stuff with tags I'm not following. I didn't have to build a feed at all. How do I just see my followed tags?1) There is no default content. You must build your own feed.
1) You are following #newtohubski by default. I forgot about that. You're right. That's default content. Oopsie. You can unfollow it and it will likely go away. 2) I think you're following badged content by default, too. In my defense, these are new changes. Apologies for the confusion.
Aha ok, That makes sense. Thanks for clearing it up. Here, have some gold....oh, right.
Hah. Ok. I'm just kidding. I like what I see so far. Over the past couple years I've tried to trim my subreddits because the atmosphere in a lot of them was a little off. Hubski looks like everything I wish Reddit was so I'll be sticking around. Right now I see it's running slowly so I'm hoping the team at hubski are able to improve that.
Nearly badged this, btw. Nothing gets my goat more than people thinking we cribbed badges.... well, maybe those that think syncretic created Hubski.
Ok, I still don't get it. If I click feed I see stuf I'm following but also stuff that's tagged, e.g., #uspolitics · #feelthebern · #sillyseason
There's a post titled "Dear America, get your head out of your ass about Bernie Sanders" in the feed right now with those tags. I'm looking to just see my followed tags.
I don't follow any of those. Come to thin of it I'm not following #newtohubski either. Are those Badged posts? Is there a way to select my followed tags anywhere? I don't see a way to go to those easily.
Hmmm. So if you click this you'll see the content I see on Hubski. It should be different than what you see [(which is this)](https://hubski.com/feed?id=usuallymatt). I can click on this and see your profile. from that, I can tell by clicking on "followed tags = 12" (under stats) that you're following #minecraft, #linux, #google, #android, #news, #internet, #humor, #askhubski, #technology, #movies, #philosophy and #comics. I'm guessing that you're following badged content (it's a default choice, you can change it) by the fact that you see the bernie Sanders post. It was badged, as was one of its comments. All the places you see #newtohubski you see that they have also been tagged #askhubski, which you are following. Make sense?
Dunno if you can see this yet (the 48 hour thing), but your presence single-handedly made me decide to create an account here. I remember your posts from long, long ago when Reddit was younger (i still share your "Implants Are Bad!" post once in a while). I'll stick around, at the very least this site will sate my desire for in-depth discussion.
"Ignore" is not the same as "mute." You still get replies from ignored users. I think. I may have undone that preference. Not sure. Company until midnight last night, 8am call this morning, and I'm a default mod so DRAMA. Either way, I appreciate it. Thanks.
Unfortunately, yes. But on the bright side, I'm putting in my two weeks notice with work on Tuesday and taking off about 6 weeks before starting my next job since I'm moving cities and going on a 4 week honeymoon to Europe. There's plenty of pantlessness on the horizon.
I was completely discombobulated by the whole layout here but this one post is incredibly well explained, so thanks!! Now that I have an idea of how it works I really like some of the ideas behind it. I'm not "unhappy" with reddit, as to be honest most of these big blow up dramas go right over my head, but was interested in checking out the alternatives for the hell of it and this post has definitely enticed me to stay a bit longer!
Thanks for the warm welcome. I've been less active reddit for the past few months because of the toxic atmosphere that's been spreading around the subs. Despite their banning fat people hate, the conversations are far from "authentic." It's mostly just memes and inside jokes sprinkled with bigotry and hate. I appreciate the tutorials you offer as well. It really helped me understand what your site is all about!
Can I suggest that the dot point to a URL other than "/vote" to emphasize that fact? Until I saw your post, I actually thought it was the same thing as upvoting, purely because I saw "vote" and "dir=up" in my browser's footer when I moused over it.There are no downvotes and "sharing" is NOT the same thing as upvoting.
Thanks for the informative and helpful post! There is a lot to digest but I like the welcoming vibe here, the site features look interesting, and the goals with the site aligns with why I went to look around in the first place. Too bad I never got into Zork -- loved Monkey Island, though.
Wait - but how do I tell someone over the internet that I want to STAB THEM IN THE FACE? I'm kidding (nervously laughs), but coming from the adversarial reddit community, how do disagreements play out?9) There are no downvotes and "sharing" is NOT the same thing as upvoting. When you click the dot, it means "I want my friends to see this" not "I approve."
Arguments should work out like this: Person 1 and Person 2 disagree on a topic. They both explain why they disagree, citing various pieces of evidence to support their positions. If the argument remains peaceful, one person either changes their mind on the topic or the two people agree to disagree. If not, there's always the chance for drama. Just don't burn bridges. Apologies are good ways of smoothing over past nastiness. If that fails, there's always muting.
The best part so far about this site is that I don't feel the least bit intimidated to contribute. Reddit feels like it's always about the glory of karma, and about who can get their message out there better than everyone else. Here, with the ultimate goal being thoughtful discussion... I feel liberated to just write. This is a truly great thing you guys have going here.
Eh, you may have just been visiting the wrong subreddits. This place, in my opinion, just seems like another version of /r/casualconversation. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, that's bit really what I'm looking for and the main reason I love Reddit so much. I personally like how specific Reddit is. If I want to look at Pokemon content, I can just visit /r/pokemon. /r/anime has discussion threads for just about every single show, every single week. If I wanted to visit the subreddit of a particular show I was watching and wanted to talk to people about that particular show, it was almost guaranteed that there was already a subreddit for that show with thousands of subscribers already there ready to welcome you with open arms. If these are the type of subreddit's you participated in frequently, you wouldn't have a single problem with the site. It was pretty much only the defaults who fit into the category that you described in your comment. If you're just looking for new friends and just overall discussion in general, then yeah, this website is probably the right place for you! I may use this website a bit for that, but I primarily used reddit to enjoy, talk about, and share things with others. Reddit is huge, and honestly, the subreddits like the ones I mentioned above (/r/Pokemon for example) aren't affected too much by all of the drama going on over there and I think that I'll continue to spend most of my time in those places.
I somewhat agree, but I'd like to give up reddit entirely based on the direction it's going. My real hope is that they turn it around and Reddit doesn't become a shithole full of paywalled AMA's and targeted advertising. I really like reddit and don't want to see it die.
Me too. I noticed that hubski's mechanics can aggregate focused content for its users too. But it seems to require effort on the user's part to teach hubski how to do that. Yet I can imagine user's starting what are essentially the equivalent of subreddits by creating accounts with usernames such as "popmusic" and more specific ones such as "1975 Chevy Impala". Of course under the influence of a single person those "users" would probably not be as good as a properly moderated subreddit. Hubski's tag system combined with following specific individuals is probably a better way of staying up-to-date on a particular subject, though.
I know exactly what you mean. That feeling of intimidation is what kept me from contributing to Reddit for a long time after I discovered it. I imagine another benefit of this site is that it won't encourage users to make one line puns or joke answers that have nothing to contribute to the discussion. If you take out the basic incentive of posting, you'll only get content and comments from people who actually want to take the time to post for the sake of posting.
Could you elaborate? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Also the gilding system is a segregation of users.
I think I'm in love with this site. It's exactly what I need in my life right now, a slowed down consumption of thought through (?) content, and I have to say the format of this site is perfect. It will take a little bit of practice to get rid of the upvote-for-agreement reflex but I'm looking forward to my stay here.
I like the fact that I can have an unpopular opinion, or most of the time just a viewpoint most people aren't familiar with it, and not get punished by ignorant people who want their pun on top. I also like that everything doesn't disappear in a few days. So I can post real articles or documentaries, and wait it out till I find someone who wants to put in the time for a discussion.
The site is a bit slower than reddit (probably has something to do with server's or whatever) but I think we could really make the best of this place. We should all give it a try.
You know, I think the ultimate problem with Reddit was the fact that the arrows had no clear name. People gave them the name "downvote" and "upvote". That ultimately lead to their misuse. The simplicity of the feature allowed users to define for themselves what they were for. So while the original idea was people could "vote up" for good "quality" of content. People ultimately ended up using it more for "things they agree with". Its the source of the hive mind. That said, it still worked fairly well. I think there's something to crowdsourcing the problem of finding the signal. If I was to try and improve the feature, i'd add one more step the process. If a modal window allowed users to designate WHY they were doing the action, it might cut down a bit.
The most important thing, which you conveniently left out: "circledots to the clockwise". I'm tempted to tag this #writebetterdammit because that was a great introduction, really well written.
I really enjoy this site already, only being here for ~30 minutes. I've made a few comments and people have actually seen them. It's crazy, this is nothing like reddit was. I love it! One thing I might suggest though, if that's okay. When you scroll your mouse over a post, I think it would be nice to see how long ago that post was made. I've almost commented a time or two on a post that was <100 days old. It's no problem, I would just like to be able to see how long ago it was posted instead of having to click on it and find out.
If this is already a thing, let me know! Because I probably haven't been thorough enough with how long I've been here. Thanks!
This is nice, I feel so grown-up. Thank you for having me. I just need to make the print bigger cause I'm an old girl.
With all the new users, how about we try rekindling some of the old community clubs? I've considered restarting #scificlub more than once. Seems like a great time to gather new participants.
I'm in. That said, what kb said below isn't wrong:
I optimistically disagree. Most are rebelling to Voat. I think a lot of the new users are looking for exactly what mk laid out. No groupthink. No tired pun threads. Real discussions. I love Reddit for the educational discussions and when I first found Hubski I felt like a kid on Christmas morning. I'm saying people that came here instead of Voat made a conscious decision to push back the dark and I doubt the majority of them will abandon the opportunity. My glass is half full though. It's been a wild month.
Less noise. More substance. No pressure. I mostly lurk here. There are some really intelligent people floating around and I find it better to listen. But if I do have an opinion on something I am free to say it without fear of insult. There is no hate here. I post what I love and if someone loves it too they share with others. No karma hangs in the balance. No bullshit need apply. You are your own moderator and your experience is yours and yours alone.
The hate part is really important to me at this point. I am concerned about Voat turning into an echo chamber of hatred towards fat people for the sake of hatred. It sickens me. I hope that I can figure out how to use Hubski in the morning. It seems quite a bit different. I'm excited (: Last question-what is the user count here so far?
I found that after a short while of being here on hubski, I had sort of forgot about it. I mentioned this a few times, but the people here aren't really into the same kind of stuff I am, which really makes for a weird environment. Voat just feels like "reddit without all the people/stuff", which is why I assume most people are drawn to it. Hubski's a different kind of site altogether, and is certainly better quality, provided you can get along with the people here. Those without any sort of shared interests will probably forget about the site quickly. Perhaps I should start posting some stuff :P. I've never really been a large contributor to social sites, since I didn't really have any motivation or reason to (my point was to read content, not share it :P). Though perhaps this new batch will be different and stick around and contribute.
I came to hubski from a previous reddit drama wave (I don't even remember what it was about), jeez, over a year ago now. It was, a more... strident diaspora, as kleinbl00 so politely put it. This site is quite different from reddit, which solves some of its problems, but creates other ones in the process. I tend to just keep hubski on my bookmark bar and check in periodically, especially if something interesting is going on. Generally speaking, the community is rather insular and discussions tend to be muted, but I think that's just the natural consequence of a sociable, get-to-know-people kind of atmosphere. For shy people, it's a bit of a challenge to become active, and people interested in niche or controversial happenings will probably struggle to find much content and discussion; at least I know I have. I've also been lurking around voat for the past couple months, and it feels like modded-reddit, a couple different features, a few different policies, and surprisingly active on certain subvoats. Ultimately, I've been browsing reddit less and less for about two years now, but there are still a handful of mediocre communities that I still read and participate in. Anything related to /r/all or the defaults are pretty much trash at this point. Facebook had a similar arc for me, I was quite active starting in 2005, then just tapering off between 2007-2009.
I'm not gonna lie, I have a lot of positive connotations with your username. Welcome to Hubski.
Hi! Thanks for the welcome I wasn't a big talker on reddit but looking forward to contributing to the community here :)
After I realized that 4chan was too toxic for me I found Reddit. After digging in the mud, taking some moments to wallow in the NSFW, and so growing bored with that, I found that I was really settling on /r/askreddit, /r/casualconversation, and /r/casualiama. So it looks like I am really just looking for nice discussion. I'll be honest and I did lurk in FPH. But I'm not looking for that type of atmosphere. I ditched Facebook of Google+ just so I could get away from all of the noise of the loud static. This place looks clean and nice. I'll spent some time looking around. Hopefully I'll find topics like my favorite subs. I was big on /r/imaginary___, space imagery, sfw porn and of course discussion of my favorite video games.
See, I'm fine with this. The problem with reddit's removal of /r/fatpeoplehate is that reddit has claimed to be a free speech platform for the better part of a decade (and continues to make that claim), and therefore they back off and leave it up to the moderators of individual subreddits. In theory. In practice the admins are just arbitrarily nuking content they don't like with no clear-cut rationale. The problem is not that I liked FPH and want it back - I never visited the place, it was terrible and pointless. The problem is that it shows that the admins aren't willing to let their site operate the way they say it operates. They'll step in and ban stuff arbitrarily, but they won't ban other subreddits that violate the same criteria they used to publicly justify the banning of those subreddits. They'll ban "replacement" subreddits even though those replacement subreddits haven't shown any of the same "harassing behavior" that the original was supposedly banned for, and then they want to give us the double-talk that they're banning "behaviors, not ideas"? No. Fuck that. Reddit is going to do something really stupid and piss off a large swath of users sometime in the next year or so, and that'll be the end of it. There are a ton of reddit alternatives being built now and one or more of them will be the landing platform. Now to figure out how this place operates while voat.co is broken. If you are looking for a place to create or participate in a community like /r/fatpeoplehate, you won’t like Hubski. We want to host content that is worthy of thoughtful discussion. For that reason, we may remove content that only serves for titillation. We have always been clear on that, and we don’t want to pull a bait and switch on any one. That is not a cool thing to do.
We have been pretty straight forward with our intentions for Hubski from day 1. Hubski is a place for thoughtful discussion. Period. We make all of our changes and implementations to the site with this in mind. If you think that there is a place for such a community in your online world, continue to visit us, even after voat comes back. My guess is that you don't eat at just one restaurant, why visit just one online community? Seriously, reach out or PM me any time if you have any questions. Enjoy the site!Now to figure out how this place operates while voat.co is broken.
Let me know if you have any questions. A good start is our Primer Page.
I like the ideal of hubski put forward in this post. I've used reddit to find intelligent discussion of topics important to me, but I don't love the idea of subscribing to individual users to find that discussion. I don't want to join a "twitter with more characters". What do hubski users have to say about that? That said, I can also adjust to new formats when necessary. Which users should I follow for world news, astronomical and space discussion, video games, US legal issues, US politics, EU politics, current book releases, folk and punk and ska and jazz and blues and pop music, sci-fi/cyberpunk, and Dungeons & Dragons?
You actually don't have to follow users at all. You can follow only tags if you wish. I'd suggest following tags like #uspolitics #jazz and #rpgs there you will see posts that share other similar tags that you might like to follow. If you find a user submitting to a tag that seems to post very good content, you might want to follow them, but it's not necessary.
I suppose I was a Reddit lurker. I'm not upset about what's going on over there, to be completly honest.. Because I just never cared all that much. I had posted, maybe, twelve times in the year I'd been signed up.. I'm hoping Hubski here is different, and I can already see it is in some ways. I enjoy discussions, and Reddit, for me anyways, never seemed to welcome them in any useful way (apart from a few, very select, subreddits that I frequented) So I'm just saying hi real quick before going back to my lurker ways.. I'll get myself situated, and used to this pretty new site, and wait for this storm to blow over a bit. Toodles. <3
Not trying to be a wet towel... but.. I really don't get this place. I actually signed up last year, but nothing I posted ever showed up and no one ever responded to any of my questions. Giving this a second chance... I don't remember what screen name I used, but that's the only way to recover an account, despite an email address being required. Also.. taking a look around for the second time... .. uh... you guys seem kinda stuck up. The number of times I've seen reference to "freeze peaches" kinda makes me feel a little gross seeing as I've only ever seen that from SRSers. The voat crowd might be a little less sophisticated (and have some issues with spelling) and little less "liberal", but they seem more welcoming... which is ironic considering how social-justicey this place seems. (then again... most SJWs are all about exclusion, as long as it's on their terms) Feel free to mock me and call me names... you don't have to worry about me sticking around.
A significant percentage of people here identify as feminists or, ynno, are female. Or Black, or LGBT, or whatever. Hubski is a place generally free from Men's rights activists or Gamergaters or Stormfront brigades or much of the rest. It's a popular opinion here that organizations devoted to being "anti-SJW" end up as vectors of hate. Isn't it funny how you're using "social justice" as an insult, a term that represents equality between genders, sexualities, and races? Free speech is the right to say what you want, not the right to be free from criticism. More to the point, it's the right to say what you want and not being censored by the government, not private individuals or websites. Calling "free speech!" as a defence is saying that the good thing about your argument is that it's technically not illegal to express. That argument is mocked because it doesn't make sense. All that doesn't mean you can't stay. But you shouldn't expect a MRA circlejerk, and you shouldn't expect to be able to pass without a good argument.
Social justice does not necessarily represent equality, but justice for those oppressed. It offers advantageous positions to those deemed underprivileged compared to those deemed privileged. Of course, who is privileged and who isn't is left up to the interpretation of the individual judging. To some, this might seem to be promoting equality, but to others, it might seem to be promoting a certain form of sycophancy to one's self, or a censoring of the real world in the search of a "safe space". I won't pretend to support contemporary social justice movements and activities, but I also won't blindly demonize its intended effects. That being said, to act as though MRA or GGers are "vectors of hate" is as terrible as lumping in every feminist that hates men with the feminists that honestly just want gender equality. I might not be a mens rights activist, nor be a Gamergate supporter, but I'm not going to blindly distrust and hate these movements simply because I've heard that they're hate spewers. I know there's more behind Gamergate than harassment of women (though I find the whole movement has since deteriorated into a self-righteous parody of itself), and I also know that, if you support equality, then Mens Rights Activisim deserves a place in this world to exist, regardless of whether or not you believe Feminism is already working to achieve the same goals as said movement. There will be radicals on every side, but there's no use putting up blinders simply because of them.
Trust me, I distrust and hate those movements with vision. Reason nm1: Constant shitposting on any/all image boards I dare to browse. Reason nm2: The overlap of "anti-misandry" with geniune misogyny. Reason nm3: The hijacking of all "female/minority" problems that suddenly become white college-age male problems. I shim-sham this issue well enough to see that, while I can agree with some issues with MRAs, it's mixed in with such hideous bullshit that I can do nothing but openly hate the movement and others like it. Note a crucial part of the previous sentence: I agree with MRAs on some issues. I'm perfectly happy with equality. What I'm not happy with is how it's blended in with TRP attempted women-manipulating and the demonization of feminism and feminists. Look at the comment I responded to earlier - the presence of feminism caused the poster to call out about "SJW Hubski". Could you please point out to me how that was deserved? So yeah, vectors of hate. I'm going to give the members of the respective movements the kindness rarely given the other way and assume that there are some people in them that aren't bad people. That doesn't excuse the rest. It's not a silent majority, it's a silent minority.
I can understand your criticisms, and it's why I actually enjoy this community that I just recently discovered. That being said, I'm sort of afraid that by pushing away from Reddit and its anti-SJW tendency, more people on Hubski seem to hold a more polarizing view against them. Where Voat exists now to hold the people vehemently pro-GG and anti-SJW, it seems that Hubski pulls the crowd on the other side of the debate, albeit certainly more well-spoken and upright in their composure. I'm just wary of a community that seems one-sided, which is unfortunate knowing that Hubski seems to be the most moderate community I've honestly found out there, so far.
Unless they are extremists, or are looking for an anti-SJW circlejerk/dominated site, they should be fine. I personally lean on that side of things (not because I'm against equality, but because the people are damn obnoxious and generally try to make everything into those types of issues), and I have really no issues with hubski. Not really my kind of people here, but you guys have interesting things to say a lot of the time. Just know what you're getting yourself into. Differing opinions can coexist.
There's a couple people you can hook up with for different opinions. Look around some more. It's not so bad.
I've been there before - The survey that generated the data inspiring my post was of a different nature than your supposed SJW correlations, but the question is always valid. I hope you find the prior discussion interesting. Welcome. :)
I had to look it up myself. No good just googling "freeze peaches", you find a lot of pages on how to actually freeze peaches. It's a good homophone though: free-zpeaches. It's some kind of reddit thing... I've only been to reddit like 3 times so I don't know that bit of culture. My dad used to test speech recognition software by saying "It's hard to wreck a nice beach." A pretty cool homophone. Sorry -- tangent. I'm prone to those.
I'm new from Reddit (switched now because I learned about it and liked it better, not because I'm part of the radical groups), and I've never heard of the 'free peaches' thing before. I'm pretty sure it's generally restricted to the more unwelcoming subreddits that are dedicated to shaming and hating specific groups.
For one thing, nobody has a responsibility to respond to your questions. When you say that nothing you posted ever showed up (I am assuming you mean in global), it was perhaps because it was not deemed by anyone as worthy of discussion. Here is a tip for redditors, if you want to share content on hubski, you can't always just put a link. You will have to make an effort and give your opinions or views on the subject matter, or give a history of it. Well for another thing, yeah sometimes we are kind of stuck up. We can all be kind of stuck up sometimes. Being people means that we are going to be stuck up, or judgy, or mean, or sad, or lonely, there are actual people on the other side of the computer screen. Personally, I try not to put on an internet persona. I try to discuss things as if the person were sitting next to me, so I might come off as mean or as dismissive. Sometimes the intent of the message is more important than the message itself. See this is what is really bugging me about your post. You are trying to gain sympathy by putting yourself in a position where we are meant to pity you. It's just really manipulative and feels like a snake oil feeling. If I felt that this post wasn't just an excuse for you to try and gain sympathy or attempt to goad people into defending themselves, and instead was an honest expression of how you feel on the site, I might want to share it EVEN if I disagreed.Not trying to be a wet towel... but.. I really don't get this place. I actually signed up last year, but nothing I posted ever showed up and no one ever responded to any of my questions.
Also.. taking a look around for the second time... .. uh... you guys seem kinda stuck up. The number of times I've seen reference to "freeze peaches" kinda makes me feel a little gross seeing as I've only ever seen that from SRSers.
Feel free to mock me and call me names... you don't have to worry about me sticking around.
Woah, hey! Haven't seen you round in a while. Hope all has been well.
As someone who's pretty "anti-sjw", it's really not that bad here. Hubski looks a bit unwelcoming when you first join up, because it's user focused, rather than group focused. Think Twitter (people follow each other) rather than Reddit (people follow subreddits). I think right now the big problem with hubski is the lack of users. Which means that most of the people who stick around like the existing content, which was pushed by people who liked the existing content when they came, which ultimately ends up meaning that the people who made the site (mk and such) have their views/thoughts as sort of the center attraction. But really, you can post whatever you like, and choose to follow/ignore whoever you like. It's worth sticking around if you like the "feel" of the website, as the users will only become more diverse as time goes on.
I think what you're seeing is other from Reddit bringing little bits of Reddit over with them. I haven't seen anything like that in the almost 1 year I've been here. What you shouldn't do, in light of your complaint no one engaged you in conversation about the things you wanted to talk about, is rub people up the wrong way, which will only get people to mute or hide you and then, well no one will respond because no one will see your content or discussion. You're effectively shadowbanning yourself, to use Reddit terms you'll be more familiar with. Relax.
Hubski is like a mix between Reddit and Twitter. Instead of default subreddits, you get the option to follow tags. For example, #gaming is the gaming tag, and #reddit is the reddit tag. To link a tag in a post, simply surround a word with hashes (#). When creating a post, you can assign it to up to two tags at a time and the community can choose to assign a third tag to the post; although those were the rules when I first signed up and this may have changed since. Unlike Reddit though, there is no moderation on tags unlike there is with subreddits, no such thing as downvoting (so no brigading here), and the experience is far more tailored to the user. Two rules which are shared with Reddit and Hubski are no doxxing and no sexualised content of minors, so don't expect to see jailbait here...
What I find interesting is that a significant portion, if not most, of the redditors trying out Hubski seem to have been lurkers on Reddit.I can't tell whether this is because Hubski's environment attracts the type of user that would feel intimidated by Reddit's discussions (which is what I've heard being said here), or whether it's simply because the vast majority of Reddit's visitors are lurkers. Although I agree with a lot of the criticisms made by the comments on this thread (E.g. rewarding conformist comments, discouraging lengthy discussions, popularity contests), I never found the community to be as hostile as many of the users here have made it out to be. That being said, just from what I've seen so far, Hubski seems far friendlier than most places that I've visited on Reddit, and definitely rewards actual discussion rather than whoever can make the fastest pun. Anyway, longtime reddit lurker breaking my silence so that I don't end up lurking here.
I was also mostly a lurker on reddit. I found that most comment sections were comprised of cynics and comedians (and, as you said, who ever can make the best pun). The way the karma system rewards these types of posts seems to drown out any real conversation that might of been going on. Hubski seems to me (in my short time here) to have a better structure to support real conversation. I hope that both you and I can grow to enjoy this site and be part of what seems to be an great community.
I've noticed the exact same thing, it seems like the lack of "voting" system really opens up new people who might be scared to post/comment on reddit because of the "downvote if you disagree" mentality that people have there.
I guess people are just sort of vengeful, because they see something they don't like they wanna ruin a person's day. That's why the whole karma thing wasn't important to me, and part of why I only ever upvoted things I liked, rather than upvoting and downvoting. I just like seeing other people's content, maybe adding a comment here or there, but the vindictiveness of the people there wasn't something I really wanted to INVOLVE myself with, I preferred to just sit back and watch. I like to think of a particular quote, I think it was by Voltaire, "I may not like what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
I'm really impressed of the openmindness to welcome the redditors instead of fear the might run over your own functioning system and find workarounds to create a reddit2.0. To me that shows a) the trust you have in hubski and b) the will to have a broad discussion
Thank you, Hubski. Thank you for existing. Thank you for being what I've always wanted the internet to be. I joined Reddit a few years ago looking for a community, a place to interact with people I would never otherwise have had the opportunity of interacting with. With a few exceptions strictly related to a few niche hobbies, it has not turned out to be that. However, I've kept up with it because, well, I don't know, to be honest. Conversations quickly devolve into like-minded "yes-manning" or attacks on anyone that dares disagree. It's truly been a disappointment. Here, things seem different. People seem to want to talk. To discuss. To share. You've all also been so incredibly welcoming of us refugees, that I'm absolutely blown away. In the 21st century, the first site that autofills on your browser may as well be your home address, and I think I've finally found a nicer neighbor. Thanks again.
I concur. The last time I had such high hopes for a community, I was using a 56k modem and I was hopelessly naive. Now, I got a faster internet connection. Seriously, though - I thought places where longform text was appreciated, serious but friendly discussion could occur and the whole thing didn't scream "eventual cashgrab" were long extinct.
I started to type Hubskiers earlier and it makes me feel like it should be a sports team sponsored by networking equipment.
Thanks for making this site. I look forward to becoming part of the community. I'm excited to be able to contribute content, and hope everybody likes it.
It seems like this site is based around the following of various users. How would you find users you agree with, that have similar interests to you? On reddit, I'd just visit a subreddit, say, /r/MechanicalKeyboards. On Hubski, it seems like I'd have to hunt a bunch of mechboard enthusiasts down to get the latest news around the subject, and how? And about the hubwheel next to a link or comment. Clicking that shares it with my followers, from what I've gathered. But are there any unwritten rules or guidelines as to when you'd click it? If you agree with someone? If you think their post/comment contributes? If you find it extremely well made? If you just like it? If you feel like your followers would enjoy it? Do you do it often? Not very often? How often? Oh, and how would a comment shared by someone I follow show up in my front page? This seems like a very interesting site and I'd love it if people would educate me further on the matter.
My understanding is that content categorization here is based on tagging, so you would look for #mechanicalkeyboard, #mechkb, or #ripster. It's a little more free form, which makes it harder for a community to agree on a category name, but maybe there's tag suggestions - I don't know, haven't made a post yet. It is cool that the system apparently supports multiple tags on a post though, so you can effectively not have to worry about crossposts and split discussions. Made yourself an ergodox? Tag as #mechkb and #maker and both groups get to talk together.
I think with comments, clicking the wheel works identically to upvoting. With posts, it will be an upvote + share / broadcast to your followers. If you haven't already, the primer is worth a read.
I've only been here for a couple days, but this system seems like Tumblr: you press the wheel to share top level posts to those who follow you or to create a set of content you've seen that you care about. You press the wheel on comments to "like" them (I think).
I started using reddit in 2010. I was never a big commenter, or poster. I use the site daily, but their was a lot of shitty content to sift through all the time. I started to be a knight of new, about a year ago, because the content was getting so bad. I usually had things to say, but didn't comment because the comments are usually brutally mean. I really don't have the free time, to scour the internet for link karma. I was always offended by the use of the word karma. I like how this site does not have numbers, that make it like a game. I don't really care about the issues involved in yesterday's shutdown. I just kept seeing posts about better places. A better place sounds lovely. I like this format much better, hopefully the wave wont drop the site's IQ too much.
What kind of moderation is there on Hubski? I am looking for a reddit alternative with transparent moderation and good controls over rampant mods and admins. EDIT: Sorry for the multiposts.
Check out this post, but I'm sure you'll be glad of what you find. Essentially, you are the moderator of your experience here: Also, please take a moment and check out our Primer Page, most new users find it helpful. Also, we don't see ourselves as a "reddit alternative." We built Hubski to be Hubski. Most of the other sites out there are intentionally trying to be a reddit alternative. If that's what you want, reddit but with a few tweaks, Hubski isn't your best bet. Otherwise, we're glad you found us. Welcome!
I'm concerned that a small number of powerusers could abuse the hide/mute function to create an echochamber effect. Is there anything on hubski that could prevent this from becoming the case? I'm not advocating for a comment free-for-all (ala 4/8chan), but I am concerned that polite, well written and reasoned comments could be arbitrarily censored, dragging down the quality of discussion. Also, what is with the "dead link" error messages? Is it server load?
1. We haven't had any problems with comments being arbitrarily censored. If someone mutes you, you can't comment in their threads. It's like someone in real life no longer inviting you to the party at their house. Why would you want to go to someone's party that doesn't want you there anyways? It has NO EFFECT on you being able to go to the rest of the party's. Bad analogy? Probably. Point is, we've been at this for years and we've had literally 3 users that have complained about muting and honestly.... they were extremely rude and the vast majority of the site muted them. They were essentially trolls. But, if a function is abused and no longer serves the purpose of our site, which is to foster a place for thoughtful discussion, we will definitely re-examine it. We aren't set in stone with our functionality, but we are set in stone with our vision for what drives our decision making. 2. Yes regarding the servers.
I'm sorry you feel that I'm not thoughtful but I don't like being dismissed or disrespected. Aaron Swartz considered me quite the thoughtful person. You see, I am the Founder & Intellectual Property Representative of Anonymous Operation Blackout (and a dozen others). Remember SOPA? I did that. You're welcome. That's who I am. Let's get back to talking who you are. Would you like me to continue systematically dismantling your false accusation of thoughtlessness? I could run circles around you all day. Aaron said it best - I'm smarter than you and because I'm smarter than you, I'm better than you and you have to listen to me. TL;DR - Your artlessness has sounded your death knell.
What a great way of introducing yourself to the community - a copypasta-worthy boasting rant about your own intelligence. You might as well just start over.
You can moderate your experience here. If you find that someone is intentionally hyperbolic you can filter, hush or mute them. See here: I hope this helps your experience here. Also, I've been on Hubski for nearly 5 years and only recently had I heard the term SJW if that gives you a sense of the community here. You are right, it's not a place where we "choose sides and battle," it's a place where we have discussions. Cheers!
Your identity is irrelevant to the comments that you make. You alone are accountable for your words and actions, and be judged on each independently, not in relation to your previous achievements. Who the hell cares what you've achieved if all your comments are as condescending as this one? It just reeks of narcissistic bullshit and doesn't leave a good taste in anybody's mouth. No, you're not welcome. To be frank I don't give a shit what you've done if all you do is talk down to people assuming yourself to be some kind of internet deity. Mark Zuckerberg might have done a great deal to foster the growth of social networking, but do people really care for the hypocritical bullshit that comes out of his mouth? That's you. Now rinse your mouth and start over. Edit: Also, you'd be sorely mistaken if you feel respect is given because you've done something worthwhile. Every little bit of respect is earned, and all that sum can be easily destroyed in the flash of a second if you don't respect your audience. If you're here because of Reddit, just look at it - perfect example.
http://www.cnet.com/profiles/anonforecast/ Is this you, or are you just throwing out copypasta?
I think their point here is to start shit and troll the community.
Pro tip - the wheel-thingy to the right of your user-id will turn orange, if you have unread notifications; blue, if you have notifications that have been read, but not dismissed.
Our mobile site is dead. We are building an API atm, and are testing it with a search app internally. We have every intention to release an API once everything is complete, and we will let everyone (especially anyone that ever inquired) know, so that apps can be made.
Thankfully the Hubski website actually scales pretty well to mobile.
I'm the same, pretty much all the time I spend on forums like this, is on my phone. I think the mobile application exists, but as of this point it is still better to just use the browser on your phone
I'm not sure if there's an app itself but there's some further information on Hubski Mobile.
I really like that there are no moderators and while the format may take some getting used to I am willing to give it a shot.
I joined reddit way back when Digg decided to try and change for the "better" 5 or so years ago. I don't really disagree with banning hate-filled communities, but regardless of that reddit has just become way too obnoxious and childish for my liking. I'm not cutting the cord yet, but I'm happy to have found somewhere else a bit lower-key to interact with people who aren't bandwagoners. Much like what reddit was 5 years ago. I'm looking forward to hanging out here!
So, quick question about personal tags: On the FAQ it says that appending an "@" to the end of your tag makes it a personal tag:
Will things user johncitizen posts tagged foo@ still show up in the feeds of people following #foo? Or only the feeds of people following foo.johncitizen?"A personal tag is your own individual tag that only you can use. A personal tag can be created by adding @ to the end of the tag. For example, if oscar enters music@, the tag #music.oscar will be created."
What I'm not understanding, and the Primer didn't really clarify for me, is how to "clear" my feed page to see new content. On Reddit I can set it up so that once a post is up- or downvoted it will disappear from my front page once the page is refreshed. How does that work here? Is the only way to remove a post from appearing in my feed to hide it? Is there any way to "upvote" a post without me sharing it with whoever is following me? Because while there are many posts I may like and think are positive contributions, I won't want to share all of them with my followers.
The autohide after a visit is interesting. It might be worthy of an settings option. That said, we are keen on supporting a slower pace of consumption. As for "voting without sharing", it's intentional that everything is shared or not. The consideration that the consequence of sharing requires is exactly what we want to encourage. If it's not worth sharing, then it simply is not. Interestingly, we frequently have posts that have very many comments and few shares; but, eventually they are shared for the discussion that occurred, rather than the content of the post itself.
To be honest, I think the "hide" for each post on the feed is sufficient. Implementing an autohide feature, even if it's something you have to turn on, could result in people having difficulty finding posts they want to go back to, to converse on.
From how I understand it:
You shouldn't think of voting as sharing with your followers – like Twitter. Voting simply means "I found this interesting", by definition anything you find interesting will also likely be interesting to those who follow you; and if it isn't interesting to them, they won't be following you. So don't worry about what your followers might think of what you're sharing; if the system works they'll find a post as interesting as you did.
If I'm the sort of guy who likes fierce, but respectful debate, holding no sacred cows and considering nothing free from exhaustive intellectual deconstruction, will Hubski be tolerant or maybe even encouraging of such discussion? For example, am I free to question the fundamental assumptions of both the War On Terror and 'rape culture' alike, assuming I'll never call names or execute personal vendettas against other users? In other words, is Hubski going to be fertile ground for multi-dimensional debate and conversation? Or does it aspire to be a 'safe space' for any particular group or ideology?
Grendel, might have a clearer view than me. It's tough. Some people are looking for engaging polar viewpoints without vitriol, and it happens, but IMO it's almost as destructive to force that to happen over the entire site as it is to make a 'safe place'. So, what we do, is put moderation in the hands of individual posters. At best, what happens is that people that don't want such discussions don't host them, but those that do can. I think it works better than a top down approach, but it's not perfect in this regard. I am not sure if there is a perfect solution.
Like mk said, the system we have at Hubski might not be perfect, but in my experience, it’s as good as it gets. Speaking as someone who’s butted heads with feminists on Hubski and elsewhere, and has been dubbed “that MRA guy” from day one, Hubski is the only community I know of where you can expect anything close to a fair debate. The worst that can happen if, for example, you decide to go against the feminist majority is that some might resort to calling you a troll/misogynist and maybe a few people will be offended enough to mute you (which just means you won’t be allowed to comment in their threads). Hubski gives users a good degree of control over what kind of content they want/don’t want to see, so it would be possible, in theory, for a certain group to create something akin to a “safe space”, by creating and maintaining a list of unwanted posters and then forbidding them from participating in their discussions. That wouldn’t be very practical however, and to the best of my knowledge it's never happened, so I would say that Hubski is not designed to facilitate insular thinking, nor is the community prone to ostracisation and censorship (at least when compared to places like Reddit and Hacker News). It goes without saying that most people don’t like having their views challenged, and identity politics notoriously breeds zealotry, so if you come here (or anywhere else, for that matter) expecting a feminist to be appreciative of your 500-word deconstruction of rape culture, you’re going to be sorely disappointed; but if you’re at the stage where you don’t want to feel like you’re just preaching to the choir and you also don’t want to have to walk on eggshells for fear of being lynched by the mob, Hubski is a good place to be.
I'm here from Reddit. I like this site the most so far because of the community feel. Though, I am having more trouble than I'm willing to admit figuring the site out. I'll ask one question here and see if anyone can help me out: Concerning my feed, can I make that show tags or can I only follow people and have their posts show up on my feed? I just wondering if my feed is a topic thing or a people thing. Thanks!
You can absolutely follow tags. Check out the primer, it will answer all these questions for you. https://hubski.com/primer Welcome!
Hey! Great site here. I've been looking for a new site for awhile now, to replace reddit for intellectual discourse. The puns that were continually posted on reddit were fun for awhile, but honestly it got old quickly. It took away from any prospect of learning or gaining new perspectives. I've only been here for a few minutes yet I'm already digging the layout and overall feel. Thanks again! I'm looking forward to hanging out here.
Thank you for the warm welcome and an even bigger thanks for laying out the guidelines. To be honest, with my growing frustration over the tonal shift at Reddit I have gone in search for a place like this numerous times over the last few years and have never come across this site. I only was led here after reading an article about Reddit's demise. I just wish I had found you sooner!
I'll be happy as long as there isn't any circlejerking about how Ellen Pao is literally hitler here.
It appears that the format of Hubski (albeit slightly confusing now, at first) is what I wanted Reddit to be. I am still a little iffy regarding the readability of the comments; looks quite stretched out. I'm looking forward to partake in the interesting discussion that will indubitably take place here. Good job, admin.
Thank you mk, and thank you hubski! So far, my only regret is not finding this site sooner. Also, I'm very impressed with your privacy policy and the self moderation.
I know that eightbitsamurai, kleinbl00, arguewithatree, thundara and some others had an anime club going at one point. Perhaps they'd be interested in rekindling it.
Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm looking forward to the variety and discussion that hubski will offer. I don't know that it will completely replace reddit for me (there are still some good, specialized subs out there), but that's okay. I'm curious, is there much non-English conversation happening on hubski? Specifically Korean. Any links/recs would be welcome!
Thanks for the welcome, now I need to get used to the layout.
I am so lost and confused but darn it, I'm happy about it.
This is about Reddit, but as they are clearly trying to mass censor the place to create an advertising revenue and money driven company, what if they secretly sold our email addresses out from underneath us? I get tons of spam mail now, and I never sign up for sketchy websites... I will be pissed if that's the case.
Hi guys, I've been lurking awhile. So far I like the discussion this site and I have read few good articles from here. Though I don't think it will necessarily replaces Reddit for me. I do believe this another platform I can visit instead through out my day.
This is exactly how I view Hubski. It's different enough from Reddit that it does not serve as a direct replacement. It doesn't quite have the traffic (and therefore content) that Reddit does, either. I find Hubski to be more like a full featured suite of "TrueReddits" (such as /r/TrueAskReddit, /r/TrueGaming, etc.) in that there is a major emphasis on conversation, and I really enjoy that. I don't participate much, but that's solely because I don't often have much to say that hasn't been said. I hope that with more content, this will change. I'm here to stay, though, which is a whole lot more than I can say about other social media platforms.
It fucking HAPPENED. This one was so much bigger than the last one. I'll try to update the data thread tomorrow.
I was serious but due to unforeseen circumstances, I have yet to update the thread. On it. :P
Yeah reddit took way freedom of speech and is basically the worst dictator in the world or something.
Reddit, as a company, took the reasonable and completely within-their-rights decision to ban distasteful and even grossly offensive subreddits - most notably fatpeoplehate. For some reason, a large amount of redditors decided this violated their right to free speech even though these subreddits were really awful places and gave the site a pretty bad image. There was uproar and a massive thread was started about reddit alternatives. The two main ones that came up were hubski and voat, a reddit clone with a more fisher-price interface. Most of the annoyed redditors seem to have moved to voat, which has completely collapsed under load, while hubski has luckily been bypassed by most of the fph redditors. However, this did have the positive effect (for people like me) that some new users (like me) have found hubski.
Thank you for the welcome! Have to admit reddit has its share of cesspool of the internet communities however it was easily avoidable. It was more or less a hit or miss if talking truthfully and sharing an idea was either going to be completely overlooked for the next hive-mind idea or thought or you suddenly hit the mother load of upvotes. This place looks pretty good and from the other posts seen so far, people are more than willing to talk and be a community instead of the one-liner posts or insults that tend to hit any popular posts in reddit. To be fair I never liked the hate subreddits but the idea of being able to voice your ideas was always important (no censorship). Recent changes in reddit made me consider moving and questioning an admin that the rules are too subjective lead to a shadowban to an outright ban to my main account of 3 years put the final nail in the coffin for me honestly. Hope to enjoy hubski and voat at the same time :), always like the coziness of a smaller community but just large enough to have a wide range of conversation and it seems this place hits the target :).
Refugee from the war torn lands of Reddit. My house filed with sewage backflow then the whole thing caught on fire. I've only been playing on reddit for a year and I've always felt like it just wasn't enough of... something. Anytime I'm somewhere that erupts into drama I bail. I hope this is what I'm looking for.
Sounds like a great place! Looking forward to it!
Thanks for the warm welcome mk, and everyone else here. Definitely ready to close the book on all the problems Reddit became as it grew too large and unwieldy. Are there any good clubs/communities dedicating to gaming?
Nice! Still trying to figure out the site, but hopefully it'll be a nice experience. Cheers y'all.
How do you intend to scale moderation, and what systematic features are in place to ensure "thoughtful discussion" gets promoted and everything else doesn't?
As people can filter users or tags that they don't want to see, and as their feed only contains what they follow, much of it is done on the individual user level. Some content is filtered from the global feed, and we rely on user filtering statistics to identify content that might qualify. You can see the unfiltered global feed if you like (there's a toggle in your settings) to see everything that is submitted. It's worth noting that we cannot ensure thoughtful discussion happens, and that that's the only kind of discussion. Users can moderate discussions on their own posts, and it's up to them to decide what kinds of discussions they want to host.
Hi, just learned about Hubski today and I already like it. Sorry for server overload. Already looks classier place.