Tongue firmly planted in cheek, of course :P
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/u/lotec
Is there an alternative to reddit, like reddit was to digg?
/u/tornadobob
I’d like to see a p2p version of reddit. That would help to keep it out of the hands of corporations. I for one live having a well organized site, but hate being at the mercy of a bunch of people in a board room.
/u/stratos
I think that could open a whole different can of worms, depending on the implementation. I’m not sure how I would feel about my connection being used to route traffic for subreddits with questionable/borderline illegal/copyrighted content, for example. It would just offload some potential legal problems from the site’s admins to its users.
/u/Thrashy
My thought was that you could build it a bit like XMPP, where individual servers can choose to federate with others, and provide a system where a user of one server can use his identity three on all federated servers. Think of it as having a “home” sub that talks to others in a web of connected subreddits, all of which honor the user identities of other connected subreddits.
I just got mine too! 61.8MB zip file. Wow, haha.
I have 220,009 total karma (129,621 from comments) and people would see that and say things like, “Wow, you must make some clever posts!” or, “You’re really popular!” and I’m like, “Well… I have a lot to say…”
Interesting Stats
I made 13,168 comments starting at
2012-09-02 02:04:53 UTC(almost 11 years ago but my cake day is May 1st, 2011). That’s ~3.34 comments/day (since I moved from lurking to commenting) with an average karma per comment at ~9.82.I made 633 posts for an average post karma of 164.57.
Hopefully I’ll be able to bring this level of engagement to the Fediverse! 👍
Conversely, Reddit has lost one of its top 0.1% power users that writes the types of comments that end up in Google listings when people search for, “site:reddit.com <whatever>”.
Awards
Who TF cares‽ That’s exactly the type of undemocratic bullshit that the Fediverse doesn’t need.
That’s the thing, though, right? I was nowhere near as prolific as you, and just going from Reddit stats I’m in the top .1% of active users. Reddit can talk all they want about how few users are going to be affected by third party apps shutting down, but they have a particularly lopsided distribution in terms of engagement and the people they’re shutting out are all the ones on the high end of that distribution. A billion lurkers does not a community make.