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by dsir 3y ago
> How much of the previous disruptions came with actual improvements to the user experience? Or at least something novel? I think that's one of my biggest critiques with the commonly suggest Reddit alternatives. They seem to not b
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by dsir 3y ago
I agree. While Discord brings some unique community tooling aspects to the table, it does not fit the forum model given the data is walled off. I've been working on a platform that's sort of like a Reddit/Discord/Patreon
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by dsir 3y ago
> Discord is a space for a completely different kind of community, and in no way replaces the longevity or value that comes from a subreddit I've been working on a platform that combines the feature set of Discord with the longer
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by dsir 3y ago
Anyone can create a community. It's up to the community owners to decide the mod teams and moderation rules they want their community to abide by. We are looking at leveraging AI to assist the communities moderators. Here's a list
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by dsir 3y ago
Lots of the alternatives seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing. I've been building a platform
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by dsir 3y ago
Appreciate the feedback! Is there anything specific you'd like to see added to whatever platforms win out?
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by dsir 3y ago
I've been using DuckDuckGo as my main search engine however I do find myself adding the "!g" bang a lot. It's hard to escape the google grasp.
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by dsir 3y ago
I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's sort of a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communitie
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by dsir 3y ago
I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's sort of a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communitie
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by dsir 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I've been building this with a friend in our free time over the past few years. We are in an open beta right now. We are definitely a bit guilty of delaying promoting it in favour of trying to polish things how
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by dsir 3y ago
Currently we aren't federated however we are looking into protocols such as ActivityPub. It's certainly interesting. It's possible we could federate our posts however one component of our platform is that communities can opti
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by dsir 3y ago
Cheers! One of the key design decisions was to bake in different methods for monetization within each community so that the community admins/mods can get paid. We take a minority cut of each transaction to help fund the platform. Each
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by dsir 3y ago
Yeah, that was a key design decision from the start. All posts and comments made on the platform are indexable by search engines.
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by dsir 3y ago
Appreciate the feedback. So within each community, the admin can create an unlimited amount of different discussion boards related to the niche of the community. Each post within a board has threaded comment trees similar to reddit where it
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by dsir 3y ago
It seems like a lot of the suggested alternatives are missing the mark a bit in regards to understanding what Reddit actually is (a community of communities). It seems like a lot of the platforms that are popping up are more akin to being j
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by dsir 3y ago
To echo what another commenter said, I feel like a lot of the suggested alternatives are missing the mark a bit in regards to understanding what Reddit actually is (a community of communities). It seems like a lot of the platforms that are
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by dsir 3y ago
Appreciate the feedback. There is definitely a bit of a learning curve to our platform coming from a place like reddit. It's intentionally not a 1-to-1 copy. We're kind of building a Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid that co
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by dsir 3y ago
Yeah fair enough. It definitely was the quickest and easiest approach to organizing fast given the circumstances
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by dsir 3y ago
Just to add to the list of alternatives, I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's sort of a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We've built a place to monetarily
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by dsir 3y ago
Ironically using a sub-reddit created for this
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by dsir 3y ago
> Unlike moderators on Reddit, who have no established way to seek support from the platform or its users The article brings up a good point regarding how Reddit relies a lot on free labor to work. The incentives for operating the comm
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by dsir 3y ago
Posts on Sociables are search engine indexable by default. One aspect I like about reddit is how you can append "reddit" to the end of a google search to get discussion about the thing you are searching for. This was a design deci
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Show HN: Sociables, A Reddit alternative that lets community owners monetize(sociables.com)
13 points by dsir 3y ago|4 comments
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by dsir 3y ago
So within a community on our platform the creator can create different discussion boards for all the relevant topics related to their niche. Within those discussion boards, posts can get "bumped" to increase their relevancy within
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by dsir 3y ago
I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform and have been specifically targetin
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by dsir 3y ago
> I don't see why e.g. a YouTube content creator shouldn't be able to have "a Reddit" I've been building a platform to target this specific thing. It seems like the biggest asset that creators are creating are th
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by dsir 3y ago
I wonder if part of the problem with this is due to how subreddits tend to be categorical in nature in that the moderators for a subreddit get to essentially own the discussion and narrative around that given thing. The issue with that is t
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by dsir 3y ago
Appreciate the reply. Did you have a chance to check out the platform? We are always looking for ways we can better tailor the platform to serve the needs of people like you. Cheers
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by dsir 3y ago
It seems like the biggest asset that creators are creating are the communities that form around them and their niche. The people who consume content within a niche tend to be very likeminded and often times quite willing to rally behind and
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by dsir 3y ago
In terms of monetization I think content creators are better served focusing on leveraging their reach to build up a community to support them instead of optimizing primarily for ad revenue. Platforms like YouTube have continuously shown th

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