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Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
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Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#132How will you avoid- > John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory was proposed in the Penny Arcade (web comic) on March 19, 2004 by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. It says that when a normal person is allowed anonymity and an audience, they lose social inhibitions and act inappropriately. If anything, the last decade has taught us the immutability of this law. Usernames and comment history seem to help somewhat w…
>Total anonymity seems to always lead to a cesspool like 4chan. 4chan is a collection of boards, and not all of them are cesspools. The ones focused on niche hobbies tend to fare better. Of course, abrasive discussion is still common. But one man's cesspool is another man's hot spring.
> But one man's cesspool is another man's hot spring.
A cesspit is still a cesspit even if some people choose to call it a hot spring.
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Internet fuckwads are fine as long as they stay limited to their own communities. What you and I deem a 'fuckwad' will vary greatly. While somebody spamming 'hitler did nothing wrong' is certainly a fuckwad, it is only an issue which this fuckwadry is exposed to those who were not expressively looking for it. I see zero issues in fuckwads congregating if they stick to themselves.
The issue is they never do.
That seems like a selection bias. You never see the ones who keep to themselves.
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#134Good luck with moderating this thing. Everyone bitches and moans about Reddit, but the fact of the matter is that sites like Reddit cost a ton to keep up and running and without some sort of revenue, they go down. Without some sort of regulation, sites QUICKLY divulge into a collection of scrupulous and illegal activities, and become blacklisted from advertisers.
I get how everyone wants a community that they can posts and share things anonymously, but the fact of the matter is that unless you have unlimited money where you can fight legal battles and absorb the cost of running it yourself, at some point you are going to need outside resources to keep the thing online and that comes in forms of donations or advertising.
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#135Good luck with moderating this thing. Everyone bitches and moans about Reddit, but the fact of the matter is that sites like Reddit cost a ton to keep up and running and without some sort of revenue, they go down. Without some sort of regulation, sites QUICKLY divulge into a collection of scrupulous and illegal activities, and become blacklisted from advertisers. I get how everyone wants a community that they can pos…
I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralised way? But that'd be susceptible to 51%-esque attacks too, and no one wants to provide resources for the site.
I think we're gonna be stuck with shitty walled censored communities for a while. At least there's hn?
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#136Now if only Ieddit, Tildes, Lobsters, Hacker News, Voat, and NotABug would all federate with each other like Lemmy[1] and Prismo[2].
[1]: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy [2]: https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#137I had an idea for a minimal change to improve a Reddit-like site, perhaps you will find it interesting: split the concept of "subreddit" into "tags" and "communities". Tags: much of the content of Reddit is people reposting the same thing at various times to various subreddits, and many of the comments are people noticing that it fits into "r/whatever" instead. The default behavior should be that posts of the same li…
> split the concept of "subreddit" into "tags" and "communities". Tags are brilliant idea until you have tens of thousands of them. Plural forms, hyphens or without hyphens, synonyms, i18n tags of the same thing, mis-spellings, etc.
Tags can be curated or moderated like anything else, that's just an implementation detail. Sites like Twitter and lobste.rs seem to get by just fine with them..
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Any sources on that? Tildes is a young community still tho, voat failed and I don't think it'll be able to reach much success either (where success = massive volume of users). We'll see.
Did Voat fail? It seems to me they attracted precisely the demographic they intended to.
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#139Good luck with moderating this thing. Everyone bitches and moans about Reddit, but the fact of the matter is that sites like Reddit cost a ton to keep up and running and without some sort of revenue, they go down. Without some sort of regulation, sites QUICKLY divulge into a collection of scrupulous and illegal activities, and become blacklisted from advertisers. I get how everyone wants a community that they can pos…
I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralised way? But that'd be susceptible to 51%-esque attacks too, and no one wants to provide resources for the site. I think we're gonna be stuck with shitty walled censored communities for a while. At least there's hn?
"I wonder if there's some way to do it in a decentralized way" - Everyone has that same thought until it's put into practice and you find yourself hosting stuff "from the community" that can get you dragged into court or prison. BTW... if you think "the community" is going to come together and help you through the financial and legal hardships you will be sorely mistaken. They will just pack up and move on to the next thing and you will be let to fend for yourself.
Re: Show HN: Ieddit – A minimalist, Reddit-like site with anonymous posts/comments
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Something like Stack Exchange's tag system would be enough.
I'm not massively familiar with Stack Exchanges tag system, it does have some synonym handling, https://blender.stackexchange.com/tags/synonyms , that seems limited to one alternative though, is there a more advanced aspect that I am missing, perhaps covering sememes?
Can sort by Target to see the (sometimes) multiple synonyms for a particular tag.