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Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

#21

Is there a decentralized version of Reddit that allows you to own your subreddit? I recently got burned where a sub I created was taken from me without explanation or warning and when I reached out to the admins, it fell on deaf ears. The idea that you have no ownership over your subreddit is bearable until you get burned and realize how crazy it is. Same thing goes for YouTube.

You can pretty easily run your own forum!

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

#22

Is there a decentralized version of Reddit that allows you to own your subreddit? I recently got burned where a sub I created was taken from me without explanation or warning and when I reached out to the admins, it fell on deaf ears. The idea that you have no ownership over your subreddit is bearable until you get burned and realize how crazy it is. Same thing goes for YouTube.

Can you explain how and why a subreddit gets taken away?

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

#23

Is there a decentralized version of Reddit that allows you to own your subreddit? I recently got burned where a sub I created was taken from me without explanation or warning and when I reached out to the admins, it fell on deaf ears. The idea that you have no ownership over your subreddit is bearable until you get burned and realize how crazy it is. Same thing goes for YouTube.

There is, Aether. (https://getaether.net)

Funnily enough, it also implements some of the stuff mentioned here, like public visibility of moderation log so the users can see what mods are doing, and with which justification.

(Disclosure: I’m the creator - prior HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161171)

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

#24
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't Mastodon have a character limit? How can you even start changing someone's view with just 500 characters?

Mastodon has a character limit, but the protocol underlying Mastodon (ActivityPub: http://activitypub.rocks/ ) doesn't. Adding a character limit was just a design decision on the part of the Mastodon developers to make their app more Twitter-like. There's nothing stopping others from building apps that don't have a character limit, and they would be able to federate with Mastodon and other AP-enabled apps just fine.

There’s patches floating around to change the limit on Masto, too. My instance limits you to 7777, and requires you to put it behind a CW if it’s more than 777. I know of an instance that gives you unlimited text if it’s behind a CW.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

#25

There are two problems that you will have to deal with: - auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page - loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subredd…

It'd be not-that-difficult, technology wise, to integrate with Reddit, with submissions instead going to changeaview.com instead of reddit.com's comment section.

But legally that's a huge can of worms. Reddit would shut them down instantly.

And not necessarily by suing, Reddit could save itself some trouble and simply delete the subreddit.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

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post #20

Good for them. I honestly and truly hope they succeed. I have a small sub (30-40k =/- subscribers)and thought about doing this. I have the infrastructure for my personal projects but don't know if I wanna deal with the upkeep and some of the few mods we have. We're not political, we just wanna help people learn something and tell someone to bugger off when it's needed. Would open up a lot of possibilities and we woul…

What's the sub?

I'm being somewhat vague about it now but hope to have news in the next 90 days.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

#27
When I first saw the subreddit, I thought it was a neat idea. I like the idea of digging into a tough subject and challenging our beliefs.

I couldn't put my finger on it for the longest time, but what I eventually realized was that I didn't like how inauthentic the whole thing felt. Changing a deeply held belief just isn't that easy, yet almost every thread has the OP giving a delta.

How it appears to me is that people have beliefs that they realize are either unpopular or controversial, and so they use the subreddit to learn what they "should" believe or at least a rationalization for ignoring their true beliefs.

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

#28

Is there a decentralized version of Reddit that allows you to own your subreddit? I recently got burned where a sub I created was taken from me without explanation or warning and when I reached out to the admins, it fell on deaf ears. The idea that you have no ownership over your subreddit is bearable until you get burned and realize how crazy it is. Same thing goes for YouTube.

Yes, it's called the web. Reddit's source is free [0], and you can host your own (sub)reddit, which no one will be able to take away from you easily.

[0] https://github.com/reddit

Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com

#30

Is there a decentralized version of Reddit that allows you to own your subreddit? I recently got burned where a sub I created was taken from me without explanation or warning and when I reached out to the admins, it fell on deaf ears. The idea that you have no ownership over your subreddit is bearable until you get burned and realize how crazy it is. Same thing goes for YouTube.

There is, Aether. ( https://getaether.net ) Funnily enough, it also implements some of the stuff mentioned here, like public visibility of moderation log so the users can see what mods are doing, and with which justification. (Disclosure: I’m the creator - prior HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161171 )

Very cool. We need things like this. Maybe to help with on boarding you could make a part of it be a reddit interface so I can just use Aether like a superset of reddit. Just a thought. Good luck with the project!
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