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I'm waiting for something minimal like tildes or hn to show up. These new competitors are too bloated.

thorncorona 3y ago
i don't think most people care. or would care, ever, if the site worked without js. the people who care about sites running without js also don't contribute to revenue either. like genuinely i don't think there's a more miserable crowd to support, with stronger preferences.
- nprateem 3y ago
  100%. Techies are such an unrepresentative niche: * Don't like to pay for anything * overly privacy conscious and minimalistic * highly opinionated, vocal and demanding in ways that probably won't help the mainstream (eg want high customisablity) * high levels of autism mean they focus on irrelevant minutae, often perfectionistic. low appreciation of aesthetics * accept things that are broken/way too difficult to use for non technical people * dismissive of things that are easy if they could build them as well Etc, etc
  - JCharante 3y ago
    Who says they don’t like to pay for things?
  - sebastialonso 3y ago
    I'd argue this is the reason Reddit outage is definitely more mainstream than it "should" be (meaning organically). In reality no one gives a flying fuck about subreddits closing, they just want their memes.
graypegg 3y ago
Honestly a self-hostable HN clone, so no rings/communities/subreddits or anything, I think could be kind of cool. 1 community per server, so they stay naturally pretty small. If you find a post out in the wild, the domain name tells you exactly what the general topic is. You could use activity pub to handle a “personal front page” that includes stuff from other instances per user. Maybe a bit naieve but that’s basically what I’d want at this point. Maybe I just want ye olde hyper-focused forums?
- Shawnj2 3y ago
  Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

i don't think most people care. or would care, ever, if the site worked without js. the people who care about sites running without js also don't contribute to revenue either. like genuinely i don't think there's a more miserable crowd to support, with stronger preferences.

nprateem 3y ago
100%. Techies are such an unrepresentative niche: * Don't like to pay for anything * overly privacy conscious and minimalistic * highly opinionated, vocal and demanding in ways that probably won't help the mainstream (eg want high customisablity) * high levels of autism mean they focus on irrelevant minutae, often perfectionistic. low appreciation of aesthetics * accept things that are broken/way too difficult to use for non technical people * dismissive of things that are easy if they could build them as well Etc, etc
- JCharante 3y ago
  Who says they don’t like to pay for things?
- sebastialonso 3y ago
  I'd argue this is the reason Reddit outage is definitely more mainstream than it "should" be (meaning organically). In reality no one gives a flying fuck about subreddits closing, they just want their memes.

graypegg 3y ago

Honestly a self-hostable HN clone, so no rings/communities/subreddits or anything, I think could be kind of cool. 1 community per server, so they stay naturally pretty small. If you find a post out in the wild, the domain name tells you exactly what the general topic is. You could use activity pub to handle a “personal front page” that includes stuff from other instances per user. Maybe a bit naieve but that’s basically what I’d want at this point. Maybe I just want ye olde hyper-focused forums?

Shawnj2 3y ago
Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit