Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
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Spezless – A Reddit clone without u/Spez
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#2Idea sparked by Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1668323286936338432?s=20)
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#3You need more than 15000 signups just for building a counter. By that logic you are not going to get reddit with all the functionalities for 1M signups. lol
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#4Why not use the fediverse code? If you don't have to build stuff, why build stuff?
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#5Love to see this work. In good reddit fashion I will use a throwaway to sign up.
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#6Why not use the fediverse code? If you don't have to build stuff, why build stuff?
Why use the fediverse code? If you don't need the complexity, why include it?
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#7Idea sparked by Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP/status/1668323286936338432?s=20 )
I think this is a pretty interesting idea. It would be great if the creator (seems to be "benmlevy"?) was in the comment thread here. There's a lot of interesting questions that come to mind. I think that nonprofit software companies could do a lot of good.
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#9You need more than 15000 signups just for building a counter. By that logic you are not going to get reddit with all the functionalities for 1M signups. lol
I agree. This is absurd. A reddit clone is a few hours work. The technology is not the difficult part, and they haven't even done it?
Anyway the idea as a whole is stupid, because the problem with reddit is not its CEO but its entire design. It was an interesting idea, but it has failed. People are upset because third party mobile apps will be gone, but the site as a whole was far better before the influx of phoneposters anyway! Phoneposting is fundamentally incompatible with text beyond a couple of sentences. Phoneposters want - and get - short, easily consumed memes, photos, and videos.e They post short, easily consumed, low-value comments. Phoneposters have turned reddit from "the front page of the internet" into a site dominated by screenshots of tweets.
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#10Yeah that 48 hour limit really was a misstep.
There were a handful of times today I wanted to research something and hit the private wall, surprising me each time.
It showed me that if this protest was indefinite, it could have a real impact on the platform. Yet, on Wednesday all will be back to normal.
I'm also very skeptical of something like this - it's the Twitter effect: people will complain all they like, but at the end of the day - Twitter and Reddit are where people are and will remain. As for the Digg comparison, tolerance for corporate greed in the services we use has skyrocketed in the past 13 years, so I dont think it's an apt comparison.