Paying "power users" is a heinous idea. The reddit karma farmers posting fake stories and known-approved thoughts are bad as it is. Imagine if you had the pull of actual money for crafting on-message bullshit you know a community will eat up. All genuine contributions that are purely from passion go out the window
Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
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#1290% of revenues go to moderators and power users.... and where exactly are these revenues coming from?
So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't convincingly explain how they plan to pay for themselves.
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#13I love the idea that recreating Reddit is a job that anybody could do with $10-20 mil to throw at engineering, as if the reason for its success is that it’s some sort of software marvel and not the fact that it’s the website with the people on it.
There are so many people speedrunning Field of Dreams right now.
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#14Yeah that 48 hour limit really was a misstep. There were a handful of times today I wanted to research something and hit the private wall, surprising me each time. It showed me that if this protest was indefinite, it could have a real impact on the platform. Yet, on Wednesday all will be back to normal. I'm also very skeptical of something like this - it's the Twitter effect: people will complain all they like, but a…
How many people left Digg for Reddit all those years ago? If the same number left Reddit today, nobody would even notice. Digg was a very niche website. So was Reddit. The migration was large only relative to their then-tiny populations.
You could build a platform the size of early Reddit from people unhappy with these changes. You could probably build a platform 10x the size of early Reddit. Very likely larger than HN, certainly bigger than Lobste.rs or Tildes. But you aren't going to do to Reddit what Reddit did to Digg.
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#15I'm blown away that this is being upvoted. The lack of effort and critical thought here is appalling.
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#16So, not only this promotes itself to be a copy of Reddit, but also trashes the CEO in the name of the clone. Now don't get me wrong, I support the protest and an alternative to reddit. However, the way this is framed sounds like a one way street to a losing lawsuit. At least a very expensive one.
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#17I love the idea that recreating Reddit is a job that anybody could do with $10-20 mil to throw at engineering, as if the reason for its success is that it’s some sort of software marvel and not the fact that it’s the website with the people on it. There are so many people speedrunning Field of Dreams right now.
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#18Somebody is way ahead of you with the idea of a non-profit Reddit
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#1990% of revenues go to moderators and power users.... and where exactly are these revenues coming from? So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't convincingly explain how they plan to pay for themselves.
> So far, all these alternatives I'm reading about can't convincingly explain how they plan to pay for themselves.
For most of its existence, Reddit hasn't been able to convincingly explain how it can pay for itself, and it still can't. The company currently isn't and I don't think has ever been profitable.
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#20Yeah that 48 hour limit really was a misstep. There were a handful of times today I wanted to research something and hit the private wall, surprising me each time. It showed me that if this protest was indefinite, it could have a real impact on the platform. Yet, on Wednesday all will be back to normal. I'm also very skeptical of something like this - it's the Twitter effect: people will complain all they like, but a…
How many people left Digg for Reddit all those years ago? If the same number left Reddit today, nobody would even notice. Digg was a very niche website. So was Reddit. The migration was large only relative to their then-tiny populations. You could build a platform the size of early Reddit from people unhappy with these changes. You could probably build a platform 10x the size of early Reddit. Very likely larger than…
Where will they go? When people left Digg, Reddit was there. As of right now, there's no viable Reddit competitor.