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You can pretty easily run your own forum!
You don't get the discoverability of these platforms in that case.
So, you want all the benefits of reddit, without any of the drawbacks, and for free?
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Can you explain how and why a subreddit gets taken away?
reddit.com/r/redditrequest lets people request control of a subreddit that has inactive moderators
I created the subreddit and brought on moderators I watched over for years, then about 8 months ago I was removed suddenly without any warning or reason. When I reached out to the admins they replied with an automated response. It truly pisses me off because this was a good will project for me and I was an archangel of the sub. It only started to bother me that they did this when the usurper mods started supporting a third party platform in an effort to potentially move people off the sub, which I found to be suspicious and now I can do nothing about it. It really left a terrible taste in my mouth.
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#43When 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 peop…
The problem is that getting the OP to change their mind on a portion of their submission statement counts as worthy of a delta, even if it makes no material difference to their opinion. For instance, many posters that are not careful with their words might say "most people are bad at ___" but have no supporting data for "most", and so then will simply award a delta and amend their opinion to "too many" or something of that nature.
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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.
Reddit has never shut down any other company or group doing anything related to that, and honestly why would they?
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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.
What's a CW?
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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
We need the discoverability Reddit provides.
This is just reinventing webrings haha
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#49There 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…
Hopefully reddit didn't trademark versions of "change my view" like they did with AMA.
https://trademarks.justia.com/869/44/ama-86944696.html
Update: they didn't, but they did trademark "nosleep."
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Reddit doesn't really care what their subreddits are used for. If they did then they would just delete the numerous hate/death/gore/revengeporn/etc. subs that have persisted for years.