Bottom Line: Clades is a very early stage reddit-like platform that aims to tackle the bot problem without algorithms or an army of mods. Basically, every user is an invite of another user and those invites accrue over time making it very difficult to build up a malicious presence while simultaneously making it very easy to prune entire branches of users and content. Right now, users have to wait a week before inviting another user and they can only store a maximum of 10 invites at any time. For the next 2 days, I'm opening up registration so Hackernews users can test it out if anyone wants to. It's very much in a beta stage so data will likely be wiped before an official release. Go Crazy

Clades started as a pandemic project that sat on the backburner for a long time before I realized that there may interest for it and I started polishing it up. The idea behind it is to foster the growth of small, niche communities either centered around where you live or things you're interested in. The goal is not to become the next big platform but rather to provide a quiet place where a community doesn't have to worry about brigading, drive by vandalism, or the ever present bot menace. Clades is designed to not store sensitive information like emails and tries to have a minimal data footprint while still supporting passwordless logins...if the database were compromised, no personal information could be retrieved besides usernames.

I'm just a single hobby dev with a full time non-software job and I haven't really launched anything successfully yet so this is all new to me. Feedback is much appreciated.

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