Tildes – A non-profit community site driven by its users' interests

Post by pjc50 » Fri, May 18, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

empath75 wrote: post #27

_ps6d wrote: post #3

Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities. I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal…

Are you familiar with metafilter.com and their moderation model? They charge a one time $5 membership to join, and it's heavily moderated, and they don't tolerate trolls or jerks very long before banning them and returning their money. They're a small scale site, and have a handful of moderators, but requiring someone to lay out actual cash to post seems to deter a lot of the behavior you see at reddit where anybody…

Post by pjc50 » Fri, May 18, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

pythonistic wrote: post #6

Over the years, we've seen reddit increasingly turn into an echo chamber. I've been personally voted down for telling people in a general subreddit that the anger they feel about ${Political Party A} is the same way that the opposition feels about ${Political Party B}. What mechanisms are you planning to implement to, for lack of a better phrase, increase exposure to and improve tolerance of different points of view?…

Post by X-Istence » Fri, May 18, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

_ps6d wrote: post #3

Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities. I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal…

Post by pacmansyyu » Fri, May 18, 2018, 6:47 PM UTC

se7entime wrote: post #7

_ps6d wrote: post #3

Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities. I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal…

To request an invite to the Tildes alpha, email invites@tildes.net. Do not email any other addresses to ask for an invite. source: https://docs.tildes.net/contact

Post by cfabbro » Fri, May 18, 2018, 6:48 PM UTC

X-Istence wrote: post #55

_ps6d wrote: post #3

Hi HN - I left my job at reddit about a year and a half ago, and a few months later decided to try starting a non-profit and work on building a new site that would be able to address a lot of the issues that I felt were hurting online communities. I've kept it very quiet until recently, but have started telling people about it and inviting them to the alpha over the last couple of weeks. The site's still very minimal…

On the announcement page you suggest not emailing you for an invite, yet here you are explicitly asking to be emailed for an invite. I'd like an invite, and would be very interested in seeing how you built your Pyramid application (I'm a core dev for Pyramid/WebOb/Waitress) when it goes open source.