Reddit has been going through some hard times lately. First, it banned its alarmingly popular forum devoted to ceaselessly mocking the overweight, which sent Redditors of all stripes (but mostly jerks) into a tizzy. Then a well-loved moderator of the famous interview subreddit r/IAMA was inexplicably let go, and the Redditsphere exploded.
Over 30 of the site's most popular subreddits went dark in a show of solidarity, protesting against the now Conde Nast-owned site's treatment of its Reddit-employed admins and volunteer moderators. The blackout has since cleared up, but the unrest has left countless Redditors looking for a escape in the form of a site that isn't Reddit, but it is still somehow exactly like it.
So with the search term "Reddit alternative" trending on Google, and a subreddit unironically devoted to finding an escape from Reddit, an army of copycat sites have set up shop. Complete with shamelessly similar interfaces, promises of freedom, and server capacity that can't even begin to withstand a fraction of Reddit's monstrous traffic, these are the Reddit alternative hopefuls that aim to take the place of the stumbling behemoth ranked roughly from "most viable" to "why just why?"
there doesn't seem to be anything here