The problem with Retalk is this: It’s closed sourced.
If we want to talk about Reddit alternatives, I would rather we look at ones which are open source, including Reddit itself until 2017 [1], the Mastodon Twitter-like web app [2], Discourse [3], Lemmy [4] (use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter), and the old school PHP discussions boards like PhpBB [6] and MyBB [7].
If we want to talk about Reddit alternatives, I would rather we look at ones which are open source, including Reddit itself until 2017 [1], the Mastodon Twitter-like web app [2], Discourse [3], Lemmy [4] (use a fork [5] if you can’t stand the slur filter), and the old school PHP discussions boards like PhpBB [6] and MyBB [7].
[1] https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
[2] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
[3] https://github.com/discourse/discourse
[4] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
[5] https://github.com/innereq/lenny
[6] https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb
[7] https://github.com/mybb/mybb