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$20/month?!? Forever?!?
To charity. That's $240 to charity a year. Is that so much to sacrifice?
I could use any $240 spare you have if you would be so kind.
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#562What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It's a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).
What if HackerNews instances were easily deployable? Say on par with launching a new blog through WordPress or similar. Do you think that that would by and large provide the tools and interfaces to satisfy what you are looking for?
Here's a cross between HN & Reddit and some other things, which I think is ok easy to deploy (like signing up for WP.com): there SaaS hosting so one won't need to install oneself ... Otherwise it's Docker images:
https://www.talkyard.io (I'm developing it) — and if you scroll down, you'll notice it adds some improvements on HackerNews and Reddit:
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How do you install it on linux? I'm getting the error, error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap "Aether-2.0.0-dev.14+1909192130.00bf3c3.snap" SO [1] suggests this can be forced with `sudo snap install --dangerous` but that doesn't sound right. [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/822765/snap-install-failure-...
Yep, the flag is right. Unfortunately the way snap is designed is that they really don’t want you to distribute binaries outside their special snap store, to the point that if you try, they try to scare your users off by naming ‘install outside snap store’ flag as ‘--dangerous’.
Can you consider flatpak instead or in addition to canonical's snap? or maybe just a .tar.gz
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You missed the most important point: 3. Discussions Try discussing anything on a random website. Discussions, just like on HN, are usually better than the linked content.
Honestly, I have a strong interest in US, Chinese, European, and now Russian politics, and how they relate to the future of the humanity and all life on earth. It is clear that most real innovation happens much more quickly and decisively if centralized under a government that decides to spend a lot of money on research, so those are discussions and reading materials that I have to find on places like reddit. Ultimat…
Since you're interested in Russian politics I'd recommend checking out https://www.ridl.io/en/ if you haven't already. Online forums are great, and it's nice to combine that with some gatekeepered stuff
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> Creating your own website is an order of magnitude harder So let's fix that?
I don't know how much easier it can get than it already is. See https://www.netlify.com/ Basically, just put a bunch of html/css files in a GitHub repo, then use the above page to let Netlify publish that on the net... it can even set up DNS for you so you can your own domain. If that's still too hard, you can use a drag-and-drop option: https://app.netlify.com/drop Just drop a folder with your website and you're don…
You don't even need Netlify. You can host basically any static sites directly on GitHub. I've got one pure HTML/CSS site, six React apps, and two Jekyll sites running on GitHub Pages.
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Yep, the flag is right. Unfortunately the way snap is designed is that they really don’t want you to distribute binaries outside their special snap store, to the point that if you try, they try to scare your users off by naming ‘install outside snap store’ flag as ‘--dangerous’.
Can you consider flatpak instead or in addition to canonical's snap? or maybe just a .tar.gz
When I was first considering the Linux packaging question, I did evaluate AppImage, Flatpak, Snap and plain old tar.gz, with AppImage being my favourite. Unfortunately they are not equally polished and AppImage flat out did not work in a consistent manner across multiple Linux variants. Between the rest, tar.gz was ok, but there are a lot of people who don’t know what to do with it. Between Flatpak and Snap, Snap was the vastly more polished experience for the end user and for me, so I bit the bullet on their non-ideal ‘we want to be an Apple App Store clone’ way of working and went with Snap.
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I feel that Costco is worth it just based on bulk-buying toilet paper, dish detergent, and such.
I have Costco premium or whatever the highest one is. Consistently great quality + deals. Right now they're selling a Costco-sized box of 1,500 Legos for $40.
Yeah, I've been eyeing that as a good gift for family. Or myself. I like the old-school stuff that isn't tied to movies or whatever.
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I wonder if crypto could play into this. Blockchain prevents sybil attacks by making interaction not free so that large scale influence is incredibly expensive.
I mean couldn't you just require a phone number for all accounts?
Last time I checked you didn't even need an email address. username & password only.
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#570What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It's a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).
I'm actually working on something like that at https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go
It's a link aggregator based on ActivityPub, the federation protocol used by Mastodon and company.
I am closing to a 1.0 release, at which point I want it to be completely integrated in the global ActivityPub network and would be interactable with from most of the other platforms. (Basically if you have another valid fediverse account, you will be able to post/interact with littr instances)
There are also several other projects in various states of compatibility and featurefullness that are working on the same idea. On the top of my head there's:
- Prismo: https://prismo.xyz/
- Lemmy: https://dev.lemmy.ml/