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So what corners have redditors gathered to during the blackout? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes... I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I'm missing?

I ask because I haven't felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on... But there might be other alternatives I haven't looked at that are worth that look.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

After reddit my needs from a social book marking website are simple:

Completely open source
Moderators can be recalled by the communities they mod.
Not for profit (ads are not the primary source of funding)

The internet needs to have something like reddit as core infrastructure. A digital public square. This requirement is incompatible with profit motive. This is why time and time again social media sites fail.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This exactly. Before this whole thing, I had no idea that social media could be open source. Now that I do, it's what I need.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ironically, reddit was open source. Here's the python source code repo for what the site was between 2005-2017. They have it preserved in an archive, and reddit the company still does contribute a lot of open source code and to open source projects, but I don't think the react rewrite of the site is included in that list.

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