4 ms·

Can RIF and Apollo stand up a clone of reddit in reasonable time and point their clients that way?

by twobitshifter 3y ago

willhoyle 3y ago
I’ve seen this suggested elsewhere but without content I don’t see this working out.
- chii 3y ago
  The clone could use the slurped up reddit content from the various archive efforts prior. Then the clone could encourage, thru these third party apps, users to submit new content to itself, rather than to reddit.
shagie 3y ago
Who is going to moderate the clone? If the clone isn't moderated, we've got a clone of voat rather than reddit. If the clone is moderated... part of this was because people are saying that Reddit is profiting off of unpaid moderator work, right? How is the clone going to be financed? Are you going to sell ads on it? If so, who is handling that? ... and making sure that the advertisements don't show up where the advertisers don't want them to. Who is going to handle the inevitable legal takedowns for copyrighted works, trademark infringements, or things that may be illegal in some country? Is it going to serve porn in the Apple App Store? Standing up a clone is easy. Keeping it up with a healthy community there (even if you are able to grab all of the existing users of an app) and being able to afford to keep it running - that's the hard part.
- nerdbert 3y ago
  The financial situation is different if you only have to keep the servers humming and pay some technical people, and aren't driven by VC funding that demands constant revenue growth.
  - shagie 3y ago
    If that was the only challenge, then why aren't Discourse deploys, reddit clones, or Lemmy instances dominating the social media world? Voat would be an example of a social media site that was spun up without VC interest (it started up as a hobby project from a college student as an alternative to reddit in part because of moderators). And so I return to my question: if it is viable to do without VC funding and the demands of revenue growth - why aren't there more of them out there?

Can RIF and Apollo stand up a clone of reddit in reasonable time and point their clients that way?

willhoyle 3y ago

I’ve seen this suggested elsewhere but without content I don’t see this working out.

chii 3y ago
The clone could use the slurped up reddit content from the various archive efforts prior. Then the clone could encourage, thru these third party apps, users to submit new content to itself, rather than to reddit.

shagie 3y ago

Who is going to moderate the clone? If the clone isn't moderated, we've got a clone of voat rather than reddit. If the clone is moderated... part of this was because people are saying that Reddit is profiting off of unpaid moderator work, right? How is the clone going to be financed? Are you going to sell ads on it? If so, who is handling that? ... and making sure that the advertisements don't show up where the advertisers don't want them to. Who is going to handle the inevitable legal takedowns for copyrighted works, trademark infringements, or things that may be illegal in some country? Is it going to serve porn in the Apple App Store? Standing up a clone is easy. Keeping it up with a healthy community there (even if you are able to grab all of the existing users of an app) and being able to afford to keep it running - that's the hard part.

nerdbert 3y ago
The financial situation is different if you only have to keep the servers humming and pay some technical people, and aren't driven by VC funding that demands constant revenue growth.
- shagie 3y ago
  If that was the only challenge, then why aren't Discourse deploys, reddit clones, or Lemmy instances dominating the social media world? Voat would be an example of a social media site that was spun up without VC interest (it started up as a hobby project from a college student as an alternative to reddit in part because of moderators). And so I return to my question: if it is viable to do without VC funding and the demands of revenue growth - why aren't there more of them out there?