I have some ideas for a reddit replacement. In my mind the perfect reddit replacement is run by the users, probably with the assistance of a non-profit foundat

I have some ideas for a reddit replacement. In my mind the perfect reddit replacement is run by the users, probably with the assistance of a non-profit foundation setup to support it. Instead of subscriptions providing superficial perks it buys you into voting power within the governing body. Effectively a decentralized network run and owned by the users, in a similar fashion to IRC or Usenet but more modern and without the centralised entities that operated them in the past. (ISPs were usually in charge of "free" Usenet servers or commercial Usenet services were run by corporate entities, IRC is often setup and operated by small cliques of people). You could accomplish this without a fully decentralized technical architecture too though that wouldn't be a bad goal long term. The main goal would be to distance the control of the platform that keeps the community together away from commercial and political interests. It's worth mentioning that reddit gold = $5 which is about the price of a small VPS. If every reddit gold user instead provided a small VPS worth of compute it suddenly becomes pretty simple to replace reddit from a money/infrastructure perspective.