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Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by Fizzer »

monokrome wrote: post #72

I wonder if these people are aware that they didn't need to write a Reddit clone? Why would you write a Reddit clone in PHP when Reddit itself is a perfectly fine open source Python project? Is their license not permissive enough? https://github.com/reddit/reddit

Reddit just recently announced they're no longer open source [1]. The last source dump could still be used, but I think they choose not to just out of a statement that they're against the Reddit corporation.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6xh3xp/reddits...

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by hilbertseries »

monokrome wrote: post #72

I wonder if these people are aware that they didn't need to write a Reddit clone? Why would you write a Reddit clone in PHP when Reddit itself is a perfectly fine open source Python project? Is their license not permissive enough? https://github.com/reddit/reddit

Reddit is kind of a pain to run at small scale because it has so many dependences: https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Dependencies.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by mrep »

tdb7893 wrote: post #16
junkculture wrote: post #9

The communities already there appear to be as toxic as reddit, so good job. I guess.

In my experience it's pretty easy to find non-toxic reddit communities. Most smaller subreddits for specific things are actually pretty nice.

Agreed, it usually takes less than a minute to figure that out. Albeit, I usually don't ban it unless I find them hopelessly close minded when it comes to debates. For other subreddits, I follow them once I have seen them enough times to like them.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by mwill »

tdb7893 wrote: post #16
junkculture wrote: post #9

The communities already there appear to be as toxic as reddit, so good job. I guess.

In my experience it's pretty easy to find non-toxic reddit communities. Most smaller subreddits for specific things are actually pretty nice.

most sports subs are great, shoutout to /r/mma, best mods on reddit.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by mixedCase »

tray5 wrote: post #80
mixedCase wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Anarchism is anti discrimination (pro egalitarianism) Anarchism is anti-state. That's it. Everything else is anarcho-something.

That's not true at all, anarchism is anti-hierarchy. The state is just one (and the second most prominent) hierarchy that anarchists oppose.

>anarchism is anti-hierarchy

Anti-involuntary hierarchy, not those who voluntarily take part of certain types of power hierarchies.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by [deleted] »

striking wrote: post #51
kbenson wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> https://raddit.me/wiki/history Wow, it's been a while since I read something that full of propaganda that wasn't at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek (unless this is and I'm missing it). Not that I doubt there's at least a grain of truth to most the statements, but when someone uses "redditcorp" to describe Reddit, and says stuff like "The_Donald completely took over the site and likely propelled Donald Trump into the…

Especially considering The_Donald is no longer visible on the default homepage.

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Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by tomglynch »

smortaz wrote: post #91

Uhhh... there's already a radd.it which is a nice viewer for reddit videos. people might get confused (or are these related?) update: radd.it just shutdown. hmmm...

This is interesting. I'm interested to know how this all occurred.

This statement is from here http://radd.it/farewell.html:

"Why? Some of the reasons are personal but many have to do with reddit. A few months after I finished working on this site, I had what I can only describe as a spiritual awakening. I now see how reddit is just a part of a far-larger deception designed to keep us blind and afraid. I no longer want to play any part in it. If you'd like to know more, I made a vid explaining things further."

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by alex_g »

dejawu wrote: post #83
chasing wrote: post #57

You know why Reddit and Twitter became some toxic environments? Because they're not designed for healthy community development. And neither is this. It's a mindless clone and it already looks like it's turning toxic.

Not rhetorical - how does one design a community for healthy development? I've messed with forum design before and I'm curious how the layout and format influence behavior.

I think this is an interesting topic too. Some ideas I've had on this:

You prevent people from posting terribly toxic comments in the first place, whether that's automatic moderation or warning them that their comment is toxic and to reconsider what they're about to post. I'm gonna plug http://www.getspectrum.io here b/c it's relevant.

Require answering a question related to the topic at hand before allowing comment submissions. I read about this being done by a news site in Europe not too long ago.

Prompt the audience/community with a specific question/prompt that the discussion/comments will be in about. That way every comment is a direct response to the same question. This could help keep things on topic. I think a lot of toxic comments are often from indirect tangents.

What if you could see comments that have been posted only after posting one of your own? That way your primary contribution is an organic thought and not an angered response to what someone else has said.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by SwellJoe »

kelukelugames wrote: post #47
tray5 wrote: post #14

Eh it's not really a general purpose reddit clone, it was written by users of /r/anarchism as an alternative platform for discussion because they lost faith in the reddit administration. You can see this in the design of the site, with a larger focus on democratic decision making and an intolerance for any bigoted or racist communities. If voat was the alt-right's reddit alternative then raddit is the lefts.

I'm not sure how left this is: "If there's actual conversation on there, it's probably just a bunch of people with Wonder Woman avatars assuring each other that America is Already Great™." https://raddit.me/f/ShitLiberalsSay/6024/verrit-a-hillary-cl...

Hillary is center-right by international standards, and the radical left treats her as such. You won't find many leftists praising Clinton, even if some of them voted for her out of desperation.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by Domenic_S »

tray5 wrote: post #93
wutbrodo wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Treating left as if it has some inherent, context-free meaning is ridiculous. If you're going to define a spectrum, the context matters, and the context we're currently discussing is American politics. You may as well say that American politics only contains extreme leftists, when compared to the rest of American history.

Sure it is, leftism occupies a spectrum of economic and social ideals, which the US left (led by the DNC) falls uniformly outside that spectrum. I mean Monarchists are left of fascists, but that doesn't make monarchists leftist just because you compare them to something further right. Just because your system is dominated by capitalists doesn't make the rest of the spectrum irrelevant, and redefining the conversation…

That's just not a meaningful distinction. Technically correct, probably -- useful? Nah.
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