Tildes Blog
blog.tildes.net · Company blog · on HN since 2018
The Tildes blog is the official site of Tildes, a non-profit, open-source community site, announcing its goals and development.
What HN saysHN commenters link it as the explanation of Tildes' goals: privacy, user funding, quality content and moderation, often as a Reddit alternative.
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- 1Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests16 people · 120 points · first shared 2018 · 100 comments on HN
- 2Tildes is open-source1 people · 32 points · first shared 2018 · 24 comments on HN
- 3Homepage1 people · first shared 2019
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tiffanyg · 2023-06-23
Quick follow-up: just started seeing the name "tildes" pop up in the past week or so. One of the potential alternatives that's been mentioned. Then, saw an article yesterday that, to me, implied, that tildes has a very similar model to reddit.
Finally checked it out - this service, apparently set up in 2018 (!) has one of the types of structures that fits. In fact, the introductory blog post (https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes) seems ... "prophetic". Not so much in terms of stating anything many didn't know at the time, but, more in the sense of a sort of anachronism like: this sounds like it was probably written in the past two weeks.
So, FYI - "tildes.net" seems a very fitting low-friction (to move to) alternative that's already been running for multiple years and where more and more "reddit refugees" seem to be showing up.
Code's open source etc., as well.
bananamerica · 2020-05-15
There is Tildes. It’s open source and non-profit, maintained by donations and has privacy by default. The community is heavily moderated and, while we do have liberty, we do not venerate free speech. There’s a great focus on civility. Most of our users are also on Reddit, and Tildes creator also created Reddit’s /u/automoderator.
Image posts do not exist and we usually prefer medium to long text and videos that are dense with content. It’s not entirely formal though, and there are avenues for conversation and personal expression.
The announcing post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Extended docs and the philosophy of Tildes: https://docs.tildes.net/philosophy
Tildes' content is open for anyone to see: https://tildes.net/
We have a subreddit: /r/tildes with a permanent thread for invites and there are invites for everyone.
Deimorz · 2020-03-12
(Tildes is my site)
The best explanation of the site's goals and values is still the original announcement blog post: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Here's the discussion on HN at the time too (note that the site was totally private at that time and you couldn't even view it without an invite yet): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17103093
I assume drannex will run out of invites soon (thanks for offering them!), so if anyone's interested in an invite please feel free to email the address in the blog post and I'll send you one tomorrow. It's not intended to be difficult to get an invite, I just want to keep the growth controlled while a base site culture and more features continue getting built up.
evilnight · 2019-11-28
Indeed. Anyone interested should check out the initial announcement on the blog: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Privacy oriented, open source, user funded, focused on quality content, aiming to develop a user-centric moderation system like slashdot and stack exchange that puts moderation into the hands of the people who participate in each individual community.
If you have a reddit account, you can visit /r/tildes and leave a reply in the sticky invite thread to get an invite code within a day. Or, you can send an email to [email protected] to get one.
It's worth noting that Tildes is created and operated by Deimos, the same guy who created reddit's automoderator and subredditsimulator.
DanBC · 2019-08-08
You might like Tildes. Here's their blog and docs which describe what Tildes is about.
https://blog.tildes.net/
https://docs.tildes.net/
You may also like Lobste.rs https://lobste.rs/
elektor · 2019-01-19
Theres a new Reddit alternative that's open source, Tildes.
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
I've been on it for a few months and would recommend it.
evil-olive · 2018-08-15
Tildes is the best place I've found, a mix between HN's high bar for moderation and Reddit's openness to more than just technical topics:
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Currently in closed alpha, though.
markx2 · 2023-10-25
Created by a former reddit admin and the creator of Automoderator there.
Very high signal to noise discussion forum.
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
trostaft · 2023-06-15
There's tildes, whose creator (guy who wrote reddit's AutoModerator) explains it better than I.
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Only thing is that it's invite only at the moment... And I seem to have too hastily deleted my reddit account to ask for an invite on their subreddit.
ivanfon · 2019-08-23
I've really been enjoying Tildes: https://tildes.net/
It's somewhat similar to Reddit (and was started by a former Reddit admin), but values quality content and discussion over "fluff" content. The users on there are wonderful, and I've had some very good discussions about both tech and non-tech topics. This blog post has some good info on it's philosophy and what makes it different: https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
anaxag0ras · 2019-02-12
Tildes seems to be pretty interesting. It is developed by ex-reddit employee and is non-profit and open-source. Currently, it is in invite-only alpha.
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
e1ven · 2019-02-10
Obviously Reddit, particularly r/programming
Slashdot.org is still around
Metafilter.org is still going
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
https://lobste.rs/
IvyMike · 2019-02-09
This is the premise behind https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes
Sadly invite only for now.
dredmorbius · 2018-07-06
Former Reddit admin and automoderator creator Diemos has launched an alternative site, as-yet invite-only, Tildes (https://tildes.net). I've been exploring that over the past few weeks, and am positively impressed. It's young yet and small, but shows promise, a sane and healthy community (sharply contrasting both Voat and Imzy in this regard), and some innovative and positive technical features, as well as an expressly member-driven, donor-supported, model.
There's plenty of opportunity to go wrong, but the launch looks good so far.
Reddit are certainly providing a golden window of opportunity.
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes