Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who pays for your time? Or is this 3 years of free work?
I'm paying for it from my savings, around $300k so far
Nice going! How can I get in touch with you?
Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
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#52Already vandalized through shitty trollish posts. Sadly, in this Internet and era you can't build a healthy community without some form of moderation.
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#53Musk claims the only solution to bots in 2023 is paid accounts. I kinda agree with him. There is no captcha that's going to keep out determined spammers. Even reddit is filled with bots. You either try to eliminate bots through paid accounts, real ID verification... Or you filter based on quality of content (ie. bots are allowed to post, as long as what they say and do is indistinguishable from a human - like reddit…
> Whats the anti-spam plan?
User moderation in focused spaces!
Its the same reason Discord/Telegram kind of works, the same reason small niche subreddits (and Hacker News) are still OK, the same reason dedicated game servers are so much nicer than public matchmaking in video games... They have a hierarchy of users who are motivated and empowered to police their own reasonably sized niche space.
Twitter can't do this, but maybe Twitter should not exist as it does now.
Reddit the company wouldn't really like this either, as they would have rather have mainstream mega-subreddits over collectively smaller niche subs.
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#54Musk claims the only solution to bots in 2023 is paid accounts. I kinda agree with him. There is no captcha that's going to keep out determined spammers. Even reddit is filled with bots. You either try to eliminate bots through paid accounts, real ID verification... Or you filter based on quality of content (ie. bots are allowed to post, as long as what they say and do is indistinguishable from a human - like reddit…
What's stopping a determined spammer paying for accounts?
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#55Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
#56Musk claims the only solution to bots in 2023 is paid accounts. I kinda agree with him. There is no captcha that's going to keep out determined spammers. Even reddit is filled with bots. You either try to eliminate bots through paid accounts, real ID verification... Or you filter based on quality of content (ie. bots are allowed to post, as long as what they say and do is indistinguishable from a human - like reddit…
What's stopping a determined spammer paying for accounts?
> What's stopping a determined spammer paying for accounts?
Paid accounts adds a significant overhead to the spamming.
Spammers just don't spam for the sake of it, they want to sell people something, legal or not.
It's one thing to buy millions of spam accounts for $100 on the dark web. It's another to have to spend $5 bucks a month per account on millions of accounts...
Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
#57Musk claims the only solution to bots in 2023 is paid accounts. I kinda agree with him. There is no captcha that's going to keep out determined spammers. Even reddit is filled with bots. You either try to eliminate bots through paid accounts, real ID verification... Or you filter based on quality of content (ie. bots are allowed to post, as long as what they say and do is indistinguishable from a human - like reddit…
What's stopping a determined spammer paying for accounts?
Can you easily pay for accounts anonymously?
Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
#58Hate to be that guy, but why opt for the new reddit look? This is already coming out of the gate on the wrong foot. The UI is slow and has so much unused white space.
Old reddit, while nice and textual is server side rendered. If you are dealing with P2P not fetching everything in one go (and thus suffering some async performance issues) is better than trying to render it all at once. That's part of the "why of new.reddit"... which makes sense for some aspects of its infrastructure. Yes, I prefer old.reddit because it renders everything at once and the layout is simpler. But if yo…
Old reddit had a compact design that filled the page. New reddit and plebbit both have huge margins on the side, tons of white space between boxes, etc. It's got nothing to do with server-side rendering.
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#59It's weird to use the name "plebbit" considering that's the derogatory term for Reddit used by 4chan folk. It's like begging for this to be a dumping ground for some of the worst human behaviors. Does the decentralized nature mean that illegal content can't be easily be removed?
I recommend the parent and all sibling commentators carefully revaluate their biases in light of this project as a singular topic. It will greatly benefit the understanding of context (somewhat unintuitively -- the terminology is adopted as lingua franca from a reactionary anonymous amalgam, not necessarily tied to the original intent or event).
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#60So do you get a captcha every time you vote? that's quite annoying.
soon we will add the ability for the community owners to let users bypass challenges if they have X amount of karma or account age.