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My Reddit replacement is Reddit, minus all the people who want to leave because of Reddit closing r/jailbait, r/thefappening, and r/fatpeoplehate. It's a pretty cool site, you should check it out.
Facebook didn't replace Myspace because they tried to do what Myspace did, but better; they won because they took an entirely different concept, built it, and eventually evolved into the behemoth we have today. Reddit didn't surpass Digg in content aggregation intentionally; they had a different community, with a different focus, and an entirely different strategy that eventually succeeded.
Over the years, I've gone from getting my web content through AOL portals --> blogs/geocities --> news sites --> StumbleUpon --> Digg --> reddit, and I've been on there for 5 years now. I'm definitely ready for something new.
I guess what I'm trying to say here is... if you want to make "the next reddit", you won't do it by trying to be BETTER than reddit. It's time for the next wave of content delivery, in whatever form that may be.
I want to put Arc to some serious load testing! PG and current sys-admins of HN, open the flood gates, put in this ticket for HN development project: "Create sub-HackNewsies". Also, I think Reddit source code is open source; so people can use that too! A great business idea I think is doing a bannedsubreddits.com/r/{banned}; crawl webarchive.org for the previous archives for all the banned subreddits for continuity..…
That said, here is the software that Hacker News is based on: http://arclanguage.org/ so maybe someone can fork a version with those features themselves.
My Reddit replacement is Reddit, minus all the people who want to leave because of Reddit closing r/jailbait, r/thefappening, and r/fatpeoplehate. It's a pretty cool site, you should check it out.
That's a remarkably unfair characterization of people who have issues with Reddit.
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.
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I would love to see a commenting site with strong, pseudonymous identity support, to create a greater barrier to the racist and misogynistic trolls who infest the default sub-reddits currently. Some options: 1. Register with a phone number (do some basic checks to avoid Google Voice, Twilio, etc.) 2. Accounts cost $1, payable either through Payal or credit card. Accounts are tied to the payment credentials. 3. Partic…
I think MetaFilter tries to accomplish this goal, via #2 ($5 signup fee), right? I don't entirely follow points #1 and #3. Re #1: There are myriad ways to get a temporary phone number, beyond Google Voice, Twilio, etc. For example, I can just use an anonymous pay-as-you-go phone. What would this accomplish beyond creating some slight inconvenience? Re #3: I get the need for strong security. You could require multi-fa…
#3. The idea is to tie the account a specific device (such as an iPhone), by generating a unique signature in the app. For this to be enforceable, logins outside the app cannot be permitted -- otherwise signatures can be forged.
It seems to me that the issue is not making a technically equivalent site, which is "relatively" easy. There's more to it than that.
edit: tribe.net history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe.net