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Good luck with moderating this thing. Everyone bitches and moans about Reddit, but the fact of the matter is that sites like Reddit cost a ton to keep up and ru

Good luck with moderating this thing. Everyone bitches and moans about Reddit, but the fact of the matter is that sites like Reddit cost a ton to keep up and running and without some sort of revenue, they go down. Without some sort of regulation, sites QUICKLY divulge into a collection of scrupulous and illegal activities, and become blacklisted from advertisers. I get how everyone wants a community that they can posts and share things anonymously, but the fact of the matter is that unless you have unlimited money where you can fight legal battles and absorb the cost of running it yourself, at some point you are going to need outside resources to keep the thing online and that comes in forms of donations or advertising.

namanyayg 7y ago
I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralised way? But that'd be susceptible to 51%-esque attacks too, and no one wants to provide resources for the site. I think we're gonna be stuck with shitty walled censored communities for a while. At least there's hn?
- thrownaway954 7y ago
  "I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff "from the community" that can get you dragged into court or prison. BTW... if you think "the community" is going to come together and help you through the financial and legal hardships you will be sorely mistaken. They will just pack up and move on to the next thing and you will be let to fend for yourself.
  - chongli 7y ago
    Maybe this is an opportunity to use machine learning to filter this stuff out? It could be done on the client side for every user connecting to the network. That way each user would have control over what comes into their machine, rather than just being an open dropbox. You could also force everything to be plaintext and just block anything encrypted or in an unrecognized file format.
    - dharmab 7y ago
      That doesn't address any if the legal risk.
    - thrownaway954 7y ago
      You do that and let us know how that works out for you.
  - namanyayg 7y ago
    Decentralised by providing computing power, not hosting content. Would that still constitute as illegal if the bits aren't on your computer, and hence are unviewable by you, but you have somehow donated computing resources to run the network? Just thinking out loud
    - thrownaway954 7y ago
      I wouldn't risk my freedom finding out. Maybe talk to a lawyer and report back to us.
Aeolun 7y ago
You can pay for it?
pklem 7y ago
I was skeptical of your cynicism at first, but then I I loaded up explore, and in the first 20 results was r/incels, r/loli, and r/beastiality. I do appreciate how this project seeks to improve on reddit at a policy level, and if enough (sane) people migrated from reddit, I would consider switching over. However, currently as it stands, I only see this website becoming reddit's 8chan, where reddit users who are banned or otherwise censored go.

namanyayg 7y ago

I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralised way? But that'd be susceptible to 51%-esque attacks too, and no one wants to provide resources for the site. I think we're gonna be stuck with shitty walled censored communities for a while. At least there's hn?

thrownaway954 7y ago
"I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff "from the community" that can get you dragged into court or prison. BTW... if you think "the community" is going to come together and help you through the financial and legal hardships you will be sorely mistaken. They will just pack up and move on to the next thing and you will be let to fend for yourself.
- chongli 7y ago
  Maybe this is an opportunity to use machine learning to filter this stuff out? It could be done on the client side for every user connecting to the network. That way each user would have control over what comes into their machine, rather than just being an open dropbox. You could also force everything to be plaintext and just block anything encrypted or in an unrecognized file format.
  - dharmab 7y ago
    That doesn't address any if the legal risk.
  - thrownaway954 7y ago
    You do that and let us know how that works out for you.
- namanyayg 7y ago
  Decentralised by providing computing power, not hosting content. Would that still constitute as illegal if the bits aren't on your computer, and hence are unviewable by you, but you have somehow donated computing resources to run the network? Just thinking out loud
  - thrownaway954 7y ago
    I wouldn't risk my freedom finding out. Maybe talk to a lawyer and report back to us.

Aeolun 7y ago

You can pay for it?

pklem 7y ago

I was skeptical of your cynicism at first, but then I I loaded up explore, and in the first 20 results was r/incels, r/loli, and r/beastiality. I do appreciate how this project seeks to improve on reddit at a policy level, and if enough (sane) people migrated from reddit, I would consider switching over. However, currently as it stands, I only see this website becoming reddit's 8chan, where reddit users who are banned or otherwise censored go.