I’m hopeful something good will come of this. I wrote this about LinkedIn but most of it could easily apply to a Reddit alternative, I love HN but would love to see a broader platform that didnt become cancerous. https://blog.eutopian.io/building-a-better-linkedin/
Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
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Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
#72So many noob mistakes in the UI and I haven't even started using the site proper. I see a link "Create Community", this takes me to a form where I get to create a community. I spend time naming and describing this community, and then click the Submit button. At this point it decides to tell me that I need to use lowercase for the community name. So I fix that and hit Submit again. At this point I'm told I have to cre…
Nice review of the UX...
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#74Not a good sign when the website doesn't load: https://i.imgur.com/Us1mwrD.jpg
I had several problems trying to get the page to load. After allowing it to use lots of javascript-related resources, it eventually loaded but took a while to display the actual text, on a fast internet connection. Unfortunate.
Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
#75The website is down only for me
Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
#76How is this going to avoid becoming like Voat? Reddit already has competitors. It is just that they are cesspools as the only people who have a strong reason to leave reddit are those reddit has banned.
It's a weird issue honestly. I've been on reddit for almost a decade, and I don't like what it has become. I would love to switch to a better alternative, but the problem is any alternative that pops up seems to be filled with extremists as soon as it starts. This doesn't imply that anyone who wants to leave reddit is a neo-nazi, a lot of us are stuck with reddit because everything else is filled with shit.
Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
#77How is this going to avoid becoming like Voat? Reddit already has competitors. It is just that they are cesspools as the only people who have a strong reason to leave reddit are those reddit has banned.
Can we try to figure out sociologically, why by default unmoderated social forums become far-right oriented? Is it because: - People on the far-right are magnitudes more vocal and active online than those on the left? That they spend a magnitude more time posting and voting on the internet? - Or when people are anonymous, they reveal their "true selves" more which exhibits more far-right (selfish, tribal, conservativ…
I'd expect that it's because if you have some new forum without (as many) restrictions, you get both:
- people who disagree with the restrictions of other places on principle and want a freer alternative
- people who can't say what they want to anywhere else, because it's generally disliked
and most people probably do not want to read stuff from the second group.
Re: Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
See how the Fediverse works - it has largely avoided becoming like Voat. Most alt-right instances, such as Gab, are hugely defederated by instance admins and therefore isolated from most of the network.
You speak in a language too cryptic for regular consumption ;) Which "Fediverse"? As I understand the concept, it applies to social networks in general. But it appears that you are referring to one specific network which contains the Gab server in it.
"Fediverse" = federated universe. Basically a bunch of smaller social networks speaking together through common protocols. Think: being able to follow a YouTube channel straight from your Twitter account — no need to create a YouTube account.
The most popular of such networks is Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/), which everyone can run on their own server (often referred to as an "instance"). By default, you create an account on one server and just speak to everyone like if you were on the same server. If one of such servers turns out to be a cesspool full of bigots (like Gab is), an admin can simply say "my server will no longer communicate with that server". When a bunch of servers do that, Gab is pretty much isolated, even though it's using an open protocol.
To put it in layman's terms: if a lot of spam comes from user@example.com, Gmail can just dismiss the emails coming from all addresses that end in @example.com.
Server owners are usually transparent and keep lists of servers they're not speaking to on GitHub or somewhere.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
See how the Fediverse works - it has largely avoided becoming like Voat. Most alt-right instances, such as Gab, are hugely defederated by instance admins and therefore isolated from most of the network.
You speak in a language too cryptic for regular consumption ;) Which "Fediverse"? As I understand the concept, it applies to social networks in general. But it appears that you are referring to one specific network which contains the Gab server in it.