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SourceHut, maybe? https://sourcehut.org/ https://sourcehut.org/
by ancarda 6y ago
SourceHut, maybe? https://sourcehut.org/ https://sourcehut.org/
- forgotmypw17 6y agoThanks! I have not been there in a while, good to check it out again. Do you know of any sites where people just talk and share, without political nonsense, flamewars, and such? Perhaps focused primarily on humor? Hacker News is indeed such an oasis, but has a rather narrow interest range. Few people are interested in discussing spirituality here, for example.
- ddingus 6y agoYou just triggered a thought: Reddit originally had that goal. And was self-sustaining, basically funded by users. This has all changed, and that's all I want to make for a point here. (why is another discussion) HN isn't self-sustaining that I know of, though it's also not needing to make it's users into products too. So, is there a middle ground? Take the HN code base, clone it, and enable these discussion norms? We have amazing moderators here. Wise. That's needed too, or the outcome is something we will see elsewhere, and that's by definition, not what we have here. How to fund that? Need hosting, moderator or two, and what else? Maybe not too much. So maybe it won't take that much money either. I would find any experiment along these lines both something I would want to participate in as well as very interesting to observe, depending on my role, and the nature of the discussion focus.
- selfhoster11 6y agoCertain subreddits with good moderation can approximate this experience, as long as you avoid/unsubscribe the firehose of everything else and focus only on reading those.
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoThe fact that only SourceHut comes to mind and the author himself complains often about the sorry state of the software world says a lot.