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Is there an ActivityPub or similarly decentralized alternative? I don't want to get invested in reddit only for them to shut down their API (it'll happen, alway
by tapoxi 8y ago
Is there an ActivityPub or similarly decentralized alternative? I don't want to get invested in reddit only for them to shut down their API (it'll happen, always does) and force me to use their garbage mobile client.
- cjslep 8y agoI think Prismo is in development as well as another to-be-announced one. Edit: And Anancus is a link sharing app too I believe.
- Communitivity 8y agoMastodon is an alternative to Twitter. The Join Mastodon website [https://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinmastodon.org/] has a good introduction. Mastodon is not currently an alternative to Reddit though, but I think it could be, if it got significant contributions towards forum functionality. Perhaps by treating each tag, or each of a certain type of tag, as an individual forum. A 'Trunk'? On the other hand, Discourse [https://www.discourse.org/about https://www.discourse.org/about] might be a better candidate for an alternative, in some ways. With Discourse though each "Reddit" would be a Discourse board on a specific server. To do a true Reddit alternative you'd need to plug individual Discourse servers into a P2P mesh. Ideally I'd like to see a Discourse-like or Reddit-like UI on top of a Mastodon back-end (which would be using ActivityPub). If you want to work on this as well please let me know and maybe we can work together on it (@BillBarnhill on Mastodon.technology or Twitter).
- faleidel 8y agoI'm making an activityPub reddit clone: https://moontreeproject.org/ https://moontreeproject.org/ The code is open source and on github: https://github.com/Faleidel/moontreeproject https://github.com/Faleidel/moontreeproject