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Is it a good time to start competitor? Given that reddit might take Quora's path to oblivion.

• daghamm 2y ago
  There are multiple alternatives, but very few user seem to want to switch https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/wiki/index/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/wiki/index/ I think a moderated mirror of certain subs would be a better solution. Because people like freedom but love their cats and memes much more.
  • shitlord 2y ago
    That wiki page is a little outdated. The pinned thread is a little more recent but still missing a lot of offshoots like TheMotte.org. Ironically the only off-site that ever really took off is the snuff film site which has 2.3M users now.
• eps 2y ago
  Have you figured out how you are foing to moderate communities and the content? Because that is Reddit's magic ingredient and you will have to do it 24/7 from day one.
  • alecco 2y ago
    It's even worse. Many subreddits were taken over by bad actors. When they saw a popular community, they found at what times the mods were inactive (e.g. late night or weekends) and posted evil stuff. Then went to cry to the admins about the evil stuff staying up for hours and got their friends to become mods of the community. In the case of reddit, many people suspect the admins and 3 letter agencies were in the know, or at least played along to their advantage. And if you self-host to avoid the risk of handing over your community to those sites under control, you get flooded with DDoS and hacking attacks (including state-sponsored actors). Sad times.