Storming Reddit's Moat

Post by asdff » Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 6:25 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #155

asdff wrote: post #142

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I don't see how fb marketplace avoids these issues

Simply having a real Facebook account tied to listings and purchases eliminates 99% of them. Both parties can also see when the account was created. Also everything you list goes through manual approval, so the most obvious spam never makes it through.

It's trivial to make a fake facebook account, and I really doubt most people vet the seller to such lengths. Scams aren't always obvious. I could see how you could generate a fake account, get fake pictures of a fake apartment, and make a fake ad, and not get caught at all.

Post by betwixthewires » Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 8:00 PM UTC

howlgarnish wrote: post #125

betwixthewires wrote: post #109

One thing I think ignored in the article is the rise of FOSS federated servers. There are a few prominent examples to those who follow these sorts of developments, but there are two in particular that I find interesting: Lemmy and Littr.me. Lemmy is basically a clone of reddit's functionality that federates over ActivityPub. It is a very high quality piece of software. A single server can host multiple communities an…

Is this meaningfully different from the user's point of view than just subscribing to a set of different subreddits? What does the user or the host get out of using federated servers? From my POV this seems to be the same issue that has prevented federated social networks or chat services from taking off: there's no meaningful, concrete advantage to it.

Consider as a part of user experience the ability to select your own admin and mod teams and terms of service by choosing a server on which to participate, or even be your own admin and mod team by launching your own server, without having to sacrifice access to a larger userbase. This changes the user experience considerably and is a definite draw.

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