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The real answer is that Apollo should be like a modern reddit-ized RSS reader. Each subreddit should be self-hosted on their own one-click cloud VM deployment.
by reaperman 3y ago
The real answer is that Apollo should be like a modern reddit-ized RSS reader. Each subreddit should be self-hosted on their own one-click cloud VM deployment. "Subscribing" to a subreddit on Apollo should connect the user's client to auto-pull feeds from the "self-hosted" server. The servers themselves should get hands-off auto-updates for security patches/etc in the same way that any end-user desktop or mobile app gets updates.
That gives each subreddit total control over moderation. It gives users total control over what subreddits they want to see on their feed. It eliminates the decentralized/federated pain.
Anyone wanna build this with me? Email newrssreddit@protonmail.com
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- TylerE 3y agoWho pays for all these servers?
- reaperman 3y agoWhoever is hosting the subreddit. This model would be particularly useful for content creators and organizations who need a space for their community.
- predictabl3 3y agoNot a VC backed company.
- jeena 3y agoYour description sounds to me practically exactly to what lemmy and /kbin do. If you want to host a subreddit (community) you have to set up a server to be able to host that community. On that community you have full controll over moderation, etc. And then people can subscribe to that community if they want to and read about it either in their app or the frontend of their own instance.
- reaperman 3y agoI've been seeing a lot of comments like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354667 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354667 Which indicate that's really not the case. In my proposed system, the client would aggregate instances/subreddits, not the server/federation.
- vGPU 3y agoIf you could put together some kind of aggregator that gets around the defederation problem that would be amazing. Lemmy is owned and run by tankies who are extremely happy to defed anyone who doesn’t support their world view.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoWhat do you mean by 'run by', in this context? I thought it was the case that instance admins can run their Lemmy instances as they see fit.
- vGPU 3y agoSee my reply to the other commenter.
- Y_Y 3y agoWhich instance are you talking about? Lemmygrad, for example, matches that description, but lemmy.ml does not. The software project doesn't (afaik) have any bearing on ideology or defederation.
- vGPU 3y ago“putting Uyghurs in concentration camps aint cultural genocide because they're extremists” https://raddle.me/f/lobby/96713/heads-up-the-tankie-behind-lemmy-ml-got-banned-from-r https://raddle.me/f/lobby/96713/heads-up-the-tankie-behind-l... I can’t vouch for the source but I have seen multiple reports of similarly disturbing statements.
- asielen 3y agoThis is exactly what I want. Basically a new evolution of RSS that is bidirectional for user engagement. Users can subscribe to whatever forum they want as long as it supports the new RSS standard. They can engage with the forums in their aggregator of choice or on the forum site directly if they want.