wikipedia has survived off of just donations
although some models are going to be more expensive than others. hosting a reddit clone and a youtube clone require totally different levels of bandwidth and infrastructure
tikitaki
joined 2 years ago
the idea for the plugin in theory would work perfectly fine
issue is that nobody is going to a) download a browser plugin to do this and b) majority of reddit users are using from apps, mostly reddit official app
i like the idea of having a link with a message that says something like "this comment is hosted off of reddit to maintain ownership of the content" and then a tinyurl link or something... i really do like that honestly
i wonder if you'd get hit with spam filter though
You want to mirror publicfreakout so we again watch american people fight into airplanes and governors banning books on the other side of the planet? Because this is what you're gonna get.
what is so wrong with this? the reason reddit is successful is because there are infinite genres of content. i think you make a strong argument that we shouldn't mirror reddit..
but people posting videos like /r/fightporn or /r/crazyfuckingvideos or whatever I think is perfectly fine and should be encouraged
100% agree
our social media sites need to be open source and decentralized. any other way will lead to the slow inevitable march of enshittification
i use RIF and old.reddit with RES and have been doing so for almost a decade at this point. if RIF is gone, I'm not using reddit on my phone anymore. maybe i continue using the website... i'm not sure. but i think they will eventually kill old.reddit and RES just like they are killing RIF
essentially it's probably gonna be my last 2 weeks on reddit
think of it this way - back in 2008 100% of the users had accounts made on or before 2008
reddit has doubled something like 8 times since that point. after 1 doubling, that 2008 or earlier becomes 50%. after 2 doublings, 25%... etc
at this point it's below 1~2% depending on where you get your figures
majority of people (and an increasing majority) will only know reddit through new.reddit or the app. my gf just joined reddit because of me a few months ago.. and she only know the official app. that is "reddit" to her.
reddit has moved on past us, the original users. they've decided that we are such a small minority that we essentially do not matter anymore and therefore are sacrificing us to raise IPO price
Presumably there would be a cache on Mars of !news@beehaw.org so that anybody who wants to view it would not have to wait 10 minutes.. they would get the cached update - so they would immediately see the community as it was 10 minutes ago.
This cache would be continuously updating so to the user on Mars, there actually isn't that much disruption. Every time they check, there would be updates.
10 minutes or even 40 minutes is not that long in the grand scheme of things. We start talking about lightyears is when I think it starts to break down.