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Now where is the reddit alternative?

• sdrothrock 9y ago
  It was open-sourced, so reddit's alternative would be reddit... IIRC, the main competitor (voat) is based off of that source.
  • crowbahr 9y ago
    Sure while "Voat" is an alternative they're both centralized. I'm meaning decentralized reddit. Servers as subreddits, federated multi-reddits, only registered server accounts can vote on certain pieces, server by server moderation etc.
    • e1ven 9y ago
      I had written a mostly functional system based around exchanging gpg-signed anonymous messages, usenet style a few years ago, with distributed voting, opt-in moderation, and server federation. https://github.com/e1ven/tavern https://github.com/e1ven/tavern I eventually moved on because I couldn't figure out how to solve some of the social problems, but I still think something like that could work out.
      • webmaven 9y ago
        Do you have a document (or a set of issues) describing the social problems you were trying to solve? They may have already been solved, in some other context.
• SSLy 9y ago
  It's called Usenet.
  • crowbahr 9y ago
    Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system and it's definitely not a reddit substitute. It is decentralized though, which is great.
    • dragonwriter 9y ago
      > Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system That's exactly what Usenet is, and Usenet with 1990-era terminal clients was superior in most respects to most current web-based forum systems.
      • webmaven 9y ago
        Heck, 1996-era GUI clients are also superior in most respects. Jon Udell wrote an excellent book in 1999 on building collaborative systems with NNTP servers, web technologies, etc.: https://archive.org/details/practicalinterne00udel https://archive.org/details/practicalinterne00udel