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Is there a Mastodon-like protocol for a distributed community platform like reddit? Smells like opportunity!

• unstatusthequo 3y ago
  Also, https://kbin.social https://kbin.social
• dingusdew 3y ago
  [dead]
• marcolussetti 3y ago
  There is! It's called Lemmy, https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/ I've seen a few subreddits talking about moving over.
  • mwinatschek 3y ago
    You may want to read this thread before switching: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/144clka/warning_lemmy_federated_reddit_clone_doesnt_care/ https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/144clka/warning_le...
    • CodesInChaos 3y ago
      Sounds like this is only about public information (username, posts/comments, media). I'd expect those to be scraped and archived somewhere regardless of what the first party server does. For example in the case of reddit pushshift collected that information and published it via torrents and sites like unddit showed it.
  • croutonwagon 3y ago
    I setup an account a few days ago. Make sure you use a bigger one I guess. The instance i chose wasnt one of the major ones, but did have traffic. Its now down...not showing on the trackers either. I am guessing its gone....dunno. Maybe it just crashed and whoever runs it hasnt fixed it or realized. Similar to why i run my own email domain (but use workspace), i considered building an instance. But have had some reservations that I talked about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36237285#36241849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36237285#36241849 If anything im more on the fence than ever.
• msla 3y ago
  Usenet.
  • PaulRobinson 3y ago
    I miss Usenet. Pre-Y2K Usenet was still usable. I first saw it in 1994 and it was in trouble by then already. But man...
    • antod 3y ago
      My quieter corners of usenet were still usable/valuable up until 10-15yrs ago. I miss it too, but aren't quite sure how much of that is rose tinted nostalgia.
• KoftaBob 3y ago
  https://agorasocial.app https://agorasocial.app