Sorry for the trivial nitpic but in the interest of reducing ambiguity the login asks for email and "hackernews" is literally not an email address.
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
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Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#232I like the concept, though I agree with a lot of the comments about people content farming and reposting comments for upvotes and I think that would kill the site (since Reddit already has enough of a problem with this and that's just for fake internet points).
The thing that I think a lot of people are missing about Reddit is that it's not a content aggregation site like HN or Digg or your site, Non.io; it's a community of communities.
I've seen so many reddit-likes which switch from 'subreddits' to hashtags, but that doesn't work for what makes Reddit great. On Reddit, you can create your own communities and control who is in them, set rules for them, moderate them how you want, and so on. For example, /r/AskHistorians has some extremely specific rules and moderation; /r/GirlGamers is a community of like-minded (typically female) individuals. /r/Trans is (in theory?) a safe place for the trans community to interact with one another. /r/BreakingMom is a place where mothers can vent without repercussions and non-mothers are not welcome to contribute content.
None of that is possible in this hashtag design. The #trans hashtag will be a shitshow of offensive, triggering, and deliberately abusive content, and there's nothing the trans community could do about that.
Toxic users on your platform will drive out anyone they don't like, and the only recourse users will have is to ask you (the admins/moderators) to ban those users - and now you have to make the decision of all of the content that is allowed on the site. Are you going to allow transphobic jokes on the site? If so, you're going to drive away trans people (and anyone with a sense of decency). If not, you're going to have to constantly be banning people from the whole site and not just part of it.
I think it's a cool site, but I think this software could be used to replace only one subreddit and not all of Reddit itself.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#233Cool. Can you shed some light on how you handle the logistics of charging for it? Which payment processor etc. ?
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#234The idea of posters getting real money instead of fake internet points when their posts do well seems interesting, but maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences. Moderation will be extremely important to prevent low-effort memes and content regurgitation and the like from saturating your main channels. Have you considered how you will encourage moderation and keep it free from the corrosive influen…
> maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences Just charging $2 might be a huge improvement over reddit because it makes sock puppets cost too much to scale. Paying out for upvotes, I fear will incentivize lowest-common-denominator content. If you go to a quality tech subreddit and sort by "Top" comments, they will mostly be memes. They won't be from an expert solving your very specific problem. And m…
I wonder though whether people will upvote differently knowing that there's real money involved.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#235on a desktop display i would expect some kind of limit on content width, plus centering. right now the content is left-aligned to about 15% of the full page width: https://non.io/#all
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#236Four years of work and I instantly nope out when you can't keep my scroll position when I click Back. Don't mess up the basics.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#237The idea of posters getting real money instead of fake internet points when their posts do well seems interesting, but maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences. Moderation will be extremely important to prevent low-effort memes and content regurgitation and the like from saturating your main channels. Have you considered how you will encourage moderation and keep it free from the corrosive influen…
I liked someone's idea in non.io #feedback of subscribing to multiple moderators, whose filters are applied to your view. Makes the moderator's job easier too, if its more distributed.
I could subscribe to a couple moderator's idea of "low effort", a few more for "spam" moderation, etc . Could even have "#racist" and "#woke" mods, whatever bubble you choose to subscribe to.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#238The idea of posters getting real money instead of fake internet points when their posts do well seems interesting, but maybe an unintentional experiment in unintended consequences. Moderation will be extremely important to prevent low-effort memes and content regurgitation and the like from saturating your main channels. Have you considered how you will encourage moderation and keep it free from the corrosive influen…
I can already see people justifying gaming the system with multiple paid accounts if they know that farming those upvotes back to themselves will recoup costs. Especially if the farmed votes get more attention from other paid votes.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#239Are signups working? I tried to sign up, but the login form shook at me and said "X", which is not among the most informative error messages I've seen.
Re: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
#240this is a much better experience then Lemmy for sure. Congrats!