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Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by tray5 »

eyko wrote: post #40
blackguardx wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are anarchists considererd left wing? Anarchists and especially anarcho-capitalists have a lot of overlap with libertarians. If you talk to a serious anarchist, they sound like they are against big government and other authority structures. The far left is suppsed to be communist, which seems the opposite of anarchy.

The left/right dichotomy doesn't work with anarchism since it doesn't necessarily have to be on either side of that spectrum - generally based on ideas about economy and not social structures or hierarchies. It can display features usually attributed to left wing ideologies (fight for equality, emancipation, fair society, freedom of speech, freedom of (and from) religion, self organisation, bottom-up communities, etc…

Your free market part is where you'll find the clash. Any anarchist would say that a free market is inherently oppressive. The only place a "free" market would work is in a mutualist economy, and even then, that requires worker ownership over the means of production.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by flukus »

snakeanus wrote: post #42

If they did that because they lost trust in the reddit administration then I think that a distributed approach would be much more fitting instead of making yet another reddit clone. In fact, NNTP would be probably exactly what they want.

They're like the opposite of voat, they split because reddit wasn't authoritarian enough for them. They want to dictate what can be said and who can contribute. A distributed approach wouldn't work.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by kemiller »

tray5 wrote: post #41
eyko wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The left/right dichotomy doesn't work with anarchism since it doesn't necessarily have to be on either side of that spectrum - generally based on ideas about economy and not social structures or hierarchies. It can display features usually attributed to left wing ideologies (fight for equality, emancipation, fair society, freedom of speech, freedom of (and from) religion, self organisation, bottom-up communities, etc…

Your free market part is where you'll find the clash. Any anarchist would say that a free market is inherently oppressive. The only place a "free" market would work is in a mutualist economy, and even then, that requires worker ownership over the means of production.

But what, exactly, is the alternative to a free market?

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by JosephLark »

Personally, I would love to see something like Lobsters [0] made general purpose. It's very HN like, but I love the ability to tags posts with multiple tags so that a single topic of conversation can belong to multiple subreddit-like communities. I've always wished that HN would co-opt that tagging. It seems like the best of both worlds (general front page and targeted communities) and naturally aides discoverability of interesting communities.

[0] https://lobste.rs/

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by kelukelugames »

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...

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by King-Aaron »

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.

r/chickens is where its at.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by kelukelugames »

quuquuquu wrote: post #2

Side topic: In the USA, what is the legal precedent for business competitors having a very similar name? If I name my social network for race car drivers "Racebook, Inc.", and my logo is a blue square with a white "r" on it, am i opening myself up to legal trouble?

Remember Twitter and Twitpic? I imagine raddit is not okay.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

#50

Post by King-Aaron »

blairanderson wrote: post #21

Hey mods can we rename this to "an alternative to reddit" Given the link has nothing to do with hacking or how the site was created or a link to the source

> Given the link has nothing to do with hacking or how the site was created

Let me draw your attention to:

- Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper (scientificamerican.com)

- Fish are eating lots of plastic (washingtonpost.com)

- A ten-day camel trek through the Australian outback (themonthly.com.au)

- A Japanese Pen Maker Anticipated the Fountain-Pen Renaissance (bloomberg.com)

And thus discard your issue as not relevant

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