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I keep wondering, why hasn’t someone made a new Reddit that’s pretty much just the old Reddit? It seems like there’s a ton of demand for it. Disrupt what Reddit

I keep wondering, why hasn’t someone made a new Reddit that’s pretty much just the old Reddit? It seems like there’s a ton of demand for it. Disrupt what Reddit has become by creating what it used to be.

gpm 5y ago
lemmy.ml is an example of this, and I'm pretty sure that it's far from the first. The hard part is attracting a crowd, network effects are real.
- johnisgood 5y ago
  The font colors require some adjusting.
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moreira 5y ago
Because network effects. Even if you clone Reddit you still need to convince people to come use your clone, that’s where the actual hard work is. And “ton of demand”, there isn’t really. Just some loud critics, but nowhere near a big enough mass to make a difference. Just as Mastodon will never beat Twitter, despite fixing a lot of its shortcomings.
brailsafe 5y ago
Because there's nothing intrinsically good or novel about it any longer. It's not the tech, it's just that people are there already.
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nunez 5y ago
voat.co tried. when the last reddit exodus happened in 2017, the site crashed all of the time. you need A LOTTTTTTTTTT of resources to run reddit, and reddit 10x’ed the “unified forum with image and video hosting” problem.
- dt3ft 5y ago
  I built whoaverse during my studies which went on to become voat. You do not need a lot of resources to run such a site, but you do need a way to monetize it. We ran on donations and the ads that we ran were never profitable. Donations are not profit either, so it was working purely because we could afford some time off to work on it. This does not work in the long run, if you can no longer justify working for free. I am currently building 20-things.com, but I doubt that there is any interest for redittors to jump off at this point.
  - nunez 5y ago
    Thanks for building voat! for what it's worth, I liked it.
    - dt3ft 5y ago
      Thank you, glad to hear that :) Stop by 20-things sometimes if you can, I still go by Atko there.
shitlord 5y ago
It's too easy to end up with the types of people who are no longer welcome on reddit. See Voat, Ruqqus, the entire win network, etc. Nobody wants to post pictures of their dog next to memes complaining about the Jews. You could make an incredibly niche website, but then you're effectively competing for users with reddit.

gpm 5y ago

lemmy.ml is an example of this, and I'm pretty sure that it's far from the first. The hard part is attracting a crowd, network effects are real.

johnisgood 5y ago
The font colors require some adjusting.

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moreira 5y ago

Because network effects. Even if you clone Reddit you still need to convince people to come use your clone, that’s where the actual hard work is. And “ton of demand”, there isn’t really. Just some loud critics, but nowhere near a big enough mass to make a difference. Just as Mastodon will never beat Twitter, despite fixing a lot of its shortcomings.

brailsafe 5y ago

Because there's nothing intrinsically good or novel about it any longer. It's not the tech, it's just that people are there already.

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nunez 5y ago

voat.co tried. when the last reddit exodus happened in 2017, the site crashed all of the time. you need A LOTTTTTTTTTT of resources to run reddit, and reddit 10x’ed the “unified forum with image and video hosting” problem.

dt3ft 5y ago
I built whoaverse during my studies which went on to become voat. You do not need a lot of resources to run such a site, but you do need a way to monetize it. We ran on donations and the ads that we ran were never profitable. Donations are not profit either, so it was working purely because we could afford some time off to work on it. This does not work in the long run, if you can no longer justify working for free. I am currently building 20-things.com, but I doubt that there is any interest for redittors to jump off at this point.
- nunez 5y ago
  Thanks for building voat! for what it's worth, I liked it.
  - dt3ft 5y ago
    Thank you, glad to hear that :) Stop by 20-things sometimes if you can, I still go by Atko there.

shitlord 5y ago

It's too easy to end up with the types of people who are no longer welcome on reddit. See Voat, Ruqqus, the entire win network, etc. Nobody wants to post pictures of their dog next to memes complaining about the Jews. You could make an incredibly niche website, but then you're effectively competing for users with reddit.