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/u/lotec

Is there an alternative to reddit, like reddit was to digg?

/u/tornadobob

I'd like to see a p2p version of reddit. That would help to keep it out of the hands of corporations. I for one live having a well organized site, but hate being at the mercy of a bunch of people in a board room.

/u/stratos

I think that could open a whole different can of worms, depending on the implementation. I'm not sure how I would feel about my connection being used to route traffic for subreddits with questionable/borderline illegal/copyrighted content, for example. It would just offload some potential legal problems from the site's admins to its users.

/u/Thrashy

My thought was that you could build it a bit like XMPP, where individual servers can choose to federate with others, and provide a system where a user of one server can use his identity three on all federated servers. Think of it as having a "home" sub that talks to others in a web of connected subreddits, all of which honor the user identities of other connected subreddits.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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/u/lotec

Is there an alternative to reddit, like reddit was to digg?

/u/tornadobob

I'd like to see a p2p version of reddit. That would help to keep it out of the hands of corporations. I for one live having a well organized site, but hate being at the mercy of a bunch of people in a board room.

/u/stratos

I think that could open a whole different can of worms, depending on the implementation. I'm not sure how I would feel about my connection being used to route traffic for subreddits with questionable/borderline illegal/copyrighted content, for example. It would just offload some potential legal problems from the site's admins to its users.

/u/Thrashy

My thought was that you could build it a bit like XMPP, where individual servers can choose to federate with others, and provide a system where a user of one server can use his identity three on all federated servers. Think of it as having a "home" sub that talks to others in a web of connected subreddits, all of which honor the user identities of other connected subreddits.


I'm a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't think i'd miss those dumb bots, but i kinda do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Shakespearean bot always came through at the worst possible times to make me laugh, like it would almost intentionally pick posts that were heated and finally cooled off only for it to come in for the punchline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the unit conversion bot was a nice QoL feature on the technical subs I tended to hang out on.

Shitty Unit Conversion Bot was good for a laugh too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow you invented the fediverse and you didn't even know it!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And he got 2 karma for it. Bargain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well really that's one karma since the first point is his and doesn't count.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's good to know that the infinitesimally semantic species, technicalis specifcus has also migrated from Reddit 👍

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should make another prediction now for what social networks will be like in another 7 years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

In the distant future of 2030, social networking between the scattered bands of surviving humans will be facilitated by ham operators bouncing packet radio off the few remaining satellite repeaters, and importing the responses they receive into their clan's scavenged network via FidoNet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ham operators

Imagine all the spam, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

c/dadjokes is leaking !

it was a good one though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

!RemindMe 7 years