This browser add-on successfully helps you customize facebook and block some of its annoying features. Meanwhile I use it to keep tabs on friends, family, former colleagues, and others, for "free". It remains useful as a social utility for me. Source: over 1 year ago

Its unpleasantries can be mitigated some with a browser add-on, FBPurity, that lets you selectively hide annoying aspects of their interface (videos, ads not already blocked by a decent ad blocker, games, etc.). That makes it tolerable to keep using. Source: over 1 year ago

On the pc, I use fb purity, it has an option to block stories, plus it also blocks sponsored posts, and many other facebook annoyances : https://fbpurity.com. Source: about 2 years ago

This developer was also harassed by Facebook, with legal threats, etc. You can't even type in "fbpurity.com" in Messenger (try it) it's banned -- among other things they censor. Source: over 2 years ago

If and when facebook returns, I strongly suggest this browser add-on to help tailor facebook and block the content it strives to shove into your face. Source: over 2 years ago

Perhaps. I am looking at https://saidit.net/, Quora, and other platforms as well. Source: 12 months ago

What's the criteria you'd need to be met for "something comparable"? Because I'd say running our own https://saidit.net/ site would be pretty identical. Source: about 1 year ago

I love IRC but it serves a slightly different purpose. It isn't threaded and it sacrifices permanency for instantaneousness. In my opinion, a forums and chat rooms compliment each other. Saidit is one good Reddit alternative that implements IRC. It's based on Reddit's code but with some modifications. Every page has an embedded IRC box specific to that subcommunity. Source: about 1 year ago

For Reddit alternatives, it looks like https://saidit.net/ (https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit) and https://phuks.co/ (https://github.com/Phuks-co/throat) could be viable alternatives. They're open source, have the UX features we desire (threaded, voting, sorting, collapsing). Source: about 1 year ago

Someone already did it - it's called saidit and it works well but very few people have gone there so far. Source: about 1 year ago