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> We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content

> We are experiencing technical difficulties based on unprecedented scale as a result of the newfound interest in WSB. We are unable to ensure Reddit's content policy and the WSB rules are enforceable without a technology platform that can support automation of this enforcement. WSB will be back. If they don't come back before market open $GME, $AMC, $BB all go caput tomorrow. The community will panic sell without a place to unify.

gremlinsinc 6y ago
Nah, /r/wallstreetbetsnew is already up and organizing as a backup. I'm sure some of the mods are probably thinking about taking their sub the fediverse... this is definitely a sub ripe for breaking out of reddit into it's own thing...
- riffic 6y ago
  Other subreddits have done the same thing. Look at Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
  - gremlinsinc 6y ago
    Yeah, I've seen that. I feel like there's something better coming though. I feel like something's missing from activepub/federation. I don't know if it's something to make censorship harder, or make privacy better, or for better identity. Something though is missing. Maybe there needs to be a centralized "identity" and accounts can be "verified" like on twitter and you'd use @user instead of @user@server.com This way you also could have less chance of impersonation. That's something that I really wonder about... I mean Obama could have an account on one site, and I could create an account with same name on another server masquerading as him, and who'd know which one's authentic? Sure, if you don't care about celebrity insights that's great, but celebs actually do reply on twitter and that's one of the "draws" being able to possibly interact with someone famous who could make you "famous for a minute".
    - riffic 6y ago
      I would suggest that the authenticity problem you describe has already been solved by similar systems (Email, XMPP, etc). Nothing wrong with discussing this, of course.
      - gremlinsinc 6y ago
        Email can be spoofed, no? usernames are a dime a dozen, but on twitter there's a single username for Stephen Colbert for example. It's verified that it really belongs to him, and only he's authorized to use it. I think anyone who wants should be able to verify themselves. Whether you are a celebrity or you just think you are because you have 14k twitter followers (grumble grumble). If you become famous overnight, you're already have a verified identity for PR, etc. So, I think centralized one-identity that you can control makes a lot of sense and maybe you can always have a kill-switch to set your profile private, or delete/wipe the data and control your own privacy.

gremlinsinc 6y ago

Nah, /r/wallstreetbetsnew is already up and organizing as a backup. I'm sure some of the mods are probably thinking about taking their sub the fediverse... this is definitely a sub ripe for breaking out of reddit into it's own thing...

riffic 6y ago
Other subreddits have done the same thing. Look at Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- gremlinsinc 6y ago
  Yeah, I've seen that. I feel like there's something better coming though. I feel like something's missing from activepub/federation. I don't know if it's something to make censorship harder, or make privacy better, or for better identity. Something though is missing. Maybe there needs to be a centralized "identity" and accounts can be "verified" like on twitter and you'd use @user instead of @user@server.com This way you also could have less chance of impersonation. That's something that I really wonder about... I mean Obama could have an account on one site, and I could create an account with same name on another server masquerading as him, and who'd know which one's authentic? Sure, if you don't care about celebrity insights that's great, but celebs actually do reply on twitter and that's one of the "draws" being able to possibly interact with someone famous who could make you "famous for a minute".
  - riffic 6y ago
    I would suggest that the authenticity problem you describe has already been solved by similar systems (Email, XMPP, etc). Nothing wrong with discussing this, of course.
    - gremlinsinc 6y ago
      Email can be spoofed, no? usernames are a dime a dozen, but on twitter there's a single username for Stephen Colbert for example. It's verified that it really belongs to him, and only he's authorized to use it. I think anyone who wants should be able to verify themselves. Whether you are a celebrity or you just think you are because you have 14k twitter followers (grumble grumble). If you become famous overnight, you're already have a verified identity for PR, etc. So, I think centralized one-identity that you can control makes a lot of sense and maybe you can always have a kill-switch to set your profile private, or delete/wipe the data and control your own privacy.