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> both can be trivially cloned. Alternatives exist Trivially? No. As can be seen by lack of alternatives of comparable quality.

sebzim4500 3y ago
I think it would be pretty easy to make a clone, but everyone who tries seems to end up getting nerdsniped making something federated instead.
- fsflover 3y ago
  Only federation defends from what is now happening with Reddit. See Freenode and Libera Chat.
  - sebzim4500 3y ago
    Reddit was great for a decade, why can't we just switch website every 10 years?
    - fsflover 3y ago
      Because you usually loose a large part of the community on the way?
      - Eisenstein 3y ago
        I'm fine with that. Massive popularity is a poison pill.
    - mtrower 3y ago
      Not only do you lose the community as already mentioned, but you lose the accumulated data (i.e. post content). This might not matter for a social community; it matters a lot if the community is of a more technical nature; i.e. repair/modding, analysis, etc. A lot of really great and useful content has been lost over the years due to forums going dark; lose a site like reddit and... my god. It's just really a huge step backward. N.B. I have no love for reddit. I generally hate reddit, the site. However there's a massive amount of useful content there.
sterlind 3y ago
Why use an alternative when you can use the real thing? Reddit was open-source until 2017: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit I think that qualifies at trivial.
- matkoniecz 3y ago
  Running things like this is not exactly trivial, even if code works run well as-is 6 years later
beowulfey 3y ago
There are a lot of alternatives that replicate Reddit's functionality. I've tested out three or four of them over the years. The quality differences are 100% due to the differences in the communities. They are social deficits, not technical ones.
chrischattin 3y ago
Creating a decent Reddit clone is a weekend project. I've done similar stuff as a demo teaching an hour long 'Intro to Rails' class at the local code school.

sebzim4500 3y ago

I think it would be pretty easy to make a clone, but everyone who tries seems to end up getting nerdsniped making something federated instead.

fsflover 3y ago
Only federation defends from what is now happening with Reddit. See Freenode and Libera Chat.
- sebzim4500 3y ago
  Reddit was great for a decade, why can't we just switch website every 10 years?
  - fsflover 3y ago
    Because you usually loose a large part of the community on the way?
    - Eisenstein 3y ago
      I'm fine with that. Massive popularity is a poison pill.
  - mtrower 3y ago
    Not only do you lose the community as already mentioned, but you lose the accumulated data (i.e. post content). This might not matter for a social community; it matters a lot if the community is of a more technical nature; i.e. repair/modding, analysis, etc. A lot of really great and useful content has been lost over the years due to forums going dark; lose a site like reddit and... my god. It's just really a huge step backward. N.B. I have no love for reddit. I generally hate reddit, the site. However there's a massive amount of useful content there.

sterlind 3y ago

Why use an alternative when you can use the real thing? Reddit was open-source until 2017: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit I think that qualifies at trivial.

matkoniecz 3y ago
Running things like this is not exactly trivial, even if code works run well as-is 6 years later

beowulfey 3y ago

There are a lot of alternatives that replicate Reddit's functionality. I've tested out three or four of them over the years. The quality differences are 100% due to the differences in the communities. They are social deficits, not technical ones.

chrischattin 3y ago

Creating a decent Reddit clone is a weekend project. I've done similar stuff as a demo teaching an hour long 'Intro to Rails' class at the local code school.