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It strikes me that nearly every problem Reddit faces is a result of centralization and scale. The right answer is for users to go back to a self-hosted model, w
by oldmanjay 11y ago
It strikes me that nearly every problem Reddit faces is a result of centralization and scale. The right answer is for users to go back to a self-hosted model, which will never happen because people follow crowds instinctively.
- kelseydh 11y agoAlmost reminds me of the Silk Road, and the move towards decentralized markets. Someone needs to make a decentralized reddit where anyone can go wherever they wish easily, and no one is tasked with serious governance issues -- let each subreddit govern themselves.
- spc476 11y agoA network where the users are in control of what they see and hear. A ... user net of some sort. You could probably call it usenet. Yeah, that has a nice ring to it.
- oldmanjay 11y agoYou could call it usenet, but someone would have to give it a better interface than the thing we call usenet now. People in general are not going to give up the modern comforts of the web for freedom.
- kelseydh 11y agoAlmost reminds me of the Silk Road, and the move towards decentralized markets. Someone needs to make a decentralized reddit where anyone can go wherever they wish easily, and no one is tasked with serious governance issues -- let each subreddit govern themselves.