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There are two problems that you will have to deal with: - auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made

There are two problems that you will have to deal with: - auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page - loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subreddits but only visit deliberately about 3 of those. Good luck (sincerely), but I would not be surprised if r/CMV stays larger than your new independent website.

diminoten 8y ago
It'd be not-that-difficult, technology wise, to integrate with Reddit, with submissions instead going to changeaview.com instead of reddit.com's comment section.
- deleted 8y ago
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- Tomte 8y ago
  But legally that's a huge can of worms. Reddit would shut them down instantly. And not necessarily by suing, Reddit could save itself some trouble and simply delete the subreddit.
  - diminoten 8y ago
    Reddit has never shut down any other company or group doing anything related to that, and honestly why would they?
    - Tomte 8y ago
      Have others integrated Reddit submissions into third-party web sites? I'd be surprised if Reddit liked that.
      - diminoten 8y ago
        https://np.reddit.com/r/hackernews/ https://np.reddit.com/r/hackernews/ Reddit offers an extensive API to do just that: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/ https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/ It makes tons of business sense to let things like that happen. It is in no way a legal can of worms or in fact any trouble at all.
        Tomte 8y ago
        Good to know. Thanks!
  - Invictus0 8y ago
    Reddit doesn't really care what their subreddits are used for. If they did then they would just delete the numerous hate/death/gore/revengeporn/etc. subs that have persisted for years.
    - Kranar 8y ago
      They did delete those subreddits.
- subroutine 8y ago
  Do you mean... "with submissions [ALSO] going to changeaview.com [AND] reddit.com's comment section" ? If the replies only went to changeaview.com the entire comment section would be blank when browsing via Reddit.
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0815test 8y ago
They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.
- Grue3 8y ago
  Doesn't Mastodon have a character limit? How can you even start changing someone's view with just 500 characters?
  - smacktoward 8y ago
    Mastodon has a character limit, but the protocol underlying Mastodon (ActivityPub: http://activitypub.rocks/ http://activitypub.rocks/) doesn't. Adding a character limit was just a design decision on the part of the Mastodon developers to make their app more Twitter-like. There's nothing stopping others from building apps that don't have a character limit, and they would be able to federate with Mastodon and other AP-enabled apps just fine.
    - egypturnash 8y ago
      There’s patches floating around to change the limit on Masto, too. My instance limits you to 7777, and requires you to put it behind a CW if it’s more than 777. I know of an instance that gives you unlimited text if it’s behind a CW.
      - scarejunba 8y ago
        What's a CW?
        kiike 8y ago
        Content warning. Like those spoiler tags in some forums that let you hide or show the actual spoiler.
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dehrmann 8y ago
Hopefully reddit didn't trademark versions of "change my view" like they did with AMA. https://trademarks.justia.com/869/44/ama-86944696.html https://trademarks.justia.com/869/44/ama-86944696.html Update: they didn't, but they did trademark "nosleep."
- mintplant 8y ago
  I'm sorry, they what? How recently was this? I was on r/nosleep's mod team and I don't recall the admins ever mentioning this to us. (They did reach out to us to try and organize a live, in-person r/nosleep Halloween event, only to eventually ghost us about it. Twice.)
  - desdiv 8y ago
    They filed for it in 2018-08-03: https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/nosleep-88064058.html https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/nosleep-88064058.html https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/r-88064059.html https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/r-88064059.html

diminoten 8y ago

It'd be not-that-difficult, technology wise, to integrate with Reddit, with submissions instead going to changeaview.com instead of reddit.com's comment section.

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Tomte 8y ago
But legally that's a huge can of worms. Reddit would shut them down instantly. And not necessarily by suing, Reddit could save itself some trouble and simply delete the subreddit.
- diminoten 8y ago
  Reddit has never shut down any other company or group doing anything related to that, and honestly why would they?
  - Tomte 8y ago
    Have others integrated Reddit submissions into third-party web sites? I'd be surprised if Reddit liked that.
    - diminoten 8y ago
      https://np.reddit.com/r/hackernews/ https://np.reddit.com/r/hackernews/ Reddit offers an extensive API to do just that: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/ https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/ It makes tons of business sense to let things like that happen. It is in no way a legal can of worms or in fact any trouble at all.
      - Tomte 8y ago
        Good to know. Thanks!
- Invictus0 8y ago
  Reddit doesn't really care what their subreddits are used for. If they did then they would just delete the numerous hate/death/gore/revengeporn/etc. subs that have persisted for years.
  - Kranar 8y ago
    They did delete those subreddits.
subroutine 8y ago
Do you mean... "with submissions [ALSO] going to changeaview.com [AND] reddit.com's comment section" ? If the replies only went to changeaview.com the entire comment section would be blank when browsing via Reddit.

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0815test 8y ago

They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.

Grue3 8y ago
Doesn't Mastodon have a character limit? How can you even start changing someone's view with just 500 characters?
- smacktoward 8y ago
  Mastodon has a character limit, but the protocol underlying Mastodon (ActivityPub: http://activitypub.rocks/ http://activitypub.rocks/) doesn't. Adding a character limit was just a design decision on the part of the Mastodon developers to make their app more Twitter-like. There's nothing stopping others from building apps that don't have a character limit, and they would be able to federate with Mastodon and other AP-enabled apps just fine.
  - egypturnash 8y ago
    There’s patches floating around to change the limit on Masto, too. My instance limits you to 7777, and requires you to put it behind a CW if it’s more than 777. I know of an instance that gives you unlimited text if it’s behind a CW.
    - scarejunba 8y ago
      What's a CW?
      - kiike 8y ago
        Content warning. Like those spoiler tags in some forums that let you hide or show the actual spoiler.
      - deleted 8y ago

dehrmann 8y ago

Hopefully reddit didn't trademark versions of "change my view" like they did with AMA. https://trademarks.justia.com/869/44/ama-86944696.html https://trademarks.justia.com/869/44/ama-86944696.html Update: they didn't, but they did trademark "nosleep."

mintplant 8y ago
I'm sorry, they what? How recently was this? I was on r/nosleep's mod team and I don't recall the admins ever mentioning this to us. (They did reach out to us to try and organize a live, in-person r/nosleep Halloween event, only to eventually ghost us about it. Twice.)
- desdiv 8y ago
  They filed for it in 2018-08-03: https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/nosleep-88064058.html https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/nosleep-88064058.html https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/r-88064059.html https://trademarks.justia.com/880/64/r-88064059.html