Not a fan of these - prove my idea will sell - type of websites.. theres a dozen websites ahead of this ten minute spent clever domained website.
Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
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Re: Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
#2290% 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.
looks like they're crypto guys
so there's that
Re: Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
#23You've been swimming in the VC world too much when you're under the impression that building a Reddit clone is a "$10M-$20M" sized task.
Re: Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
#24Beyond obvious criticisms that others have pointed out, I'm not signing up for any platform that's not federated, idc if I'm on a site with 3 other users. I am done with rugpulls.
Re: Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
#2590% 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.
Honest question: roughly how much would running a link-aggregator website like (early) reddit actually cost, assuming text only user-submissions (links/comments), 50 million daily users, and an uptime similar to reddit? If one magically had the users and wasn't interested in personal profit, how cheaply could it be done effectively?
Re: Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Before Reddit, there were forums for every kind of interest. Reddit took care of the technical side of managing a forum, it was easier to stand up a subreddit for your fandom or hobby than purchasing a domain, setting up whatever PHP forum software, database and so on.
If all those things were easier - maybe dirt-cheap turnkey hosting for something federated like Lemmy or whatever - then perhaps the answer to "viable Reddit competitor" is no Reddit at all, but just each subreddit go off and do its own thing. Your stamp-collecting forum doesn't need Reddit scale, it just needs a donate button for a few bucks a month, and if it's connected to the Fediverse then people can use a single login or app to switch between all their forums like they do with subreddits with a single federated timeline/notifications to keep them posted.
Re: Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
#27> 90% of revenue will go to moderators & power users
Congrats, you now have a community of GPT-driven karma farming bots.
Re: Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
#28Beyond obvious criticisms that others have pointed out, I'm not signing up for any platform that's not federated, idc if I'm on a site with 3 other users. I am done with rugpulls.
As you are mentioning rugpulls, all this clones are missing a key ingredient: Blockchain!
Upvotes should be bound to a token. Companies or you can buy upvotes for promotion, or use your own stash that you earned in creating good comments.
I am bit sad that no one is doing this. Would be the perfect storm if the Blockchain days weren't over...
Re: Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
#29So, 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.
You're making this sound a lot more heinous than it is. The name of the site just implies it doesn't involve Spez, and it's just a nickname. There's a large difference between "spezless" and something like "huffmansucks".
Re: Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where will they go? When people left Digg, Reddit was there. As of right now, there's no viable Reddit competitor.
Before Reddit, there were forums for every kind of interest. Reddit took care of the technical side of managing a forum, it was easier to stand up a subreddit for your fandom or hobby than purchasing a domain, setting up whatever PHP forum software, database and so on. If all those things were easier - maybe dirt-cheap turnkey hosting for something federated like Lemmy or whatever - then perhaps the answer to "viable…
To be fair there is dirt-cheap turnkey hosting of things like web forums. Remember those cPanel webhosts where you'd pay $5/month or something and then you'd be given a list of PHP programs you could host. Or there were those various free forum hosts that would only start charging over a certain margin of traffic. Some would even let you use your own domain name without paying for the hosting, but I think most kept use of your own domain name as a premium feature.
You could set up a phpBB forum or something like that almost for free on one of the cheap DIY webhosts like nearlyfreespeech, but you'd need to take the time to install. It would still be pretty easy though.
These things still exist. But people will switch to Discord instead because most subreddits seem to have discords already.