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> Now I'm brainstorming how one might build a federated Reddit with public, signed mutation log, ala CT or other chains. And then multiple UIs could render the
by qz_ 10y ago
> Now I'm brainstorming how one might build a federated Reddit with public, signed mutation log, ala CT or other chains. And then multiple UIs could render the same public & federated data set.
Reddit is 100% open source: https://github.com/reddit/reddit https://github.com/reddit/reddit
- bradfitz 10y agoThat is necessary but not sufficient. The design is wrong.
- tapirl 10y agoNo, the voting algorithm is not open sourced.
- chromakode 10y agohttps://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_sorts.pyx https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/db/_s...
- problems 10y agoThe only part not open sourced is the spam filters.
- ben_jones 10y agoAlso the infrastructure which allows Reddit to exist is not. All those scaling issues they've "solved" over the past ten years? Have fun with those if you're trying to copy and paste the repo..