Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by marknadal on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:10PM (#19087868)

Max, would you be willing to evaluate Reddit alternatives? One is https://notabug.io/ after the Aaron Swarz quote, has seen hypergrowth since it started a few months ago using our P2P tech.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by minimaxir on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:14PM (#19088681)

You emailed me about this so I'll reply here:

I call shenanigans on the hypergrowth, where the metrics you sent me imply ~1 million pageviews per month yet there is barely any engagement or new/original content on the site itself. (and the few comments there appear to be very Voat-esque)

Semi-related, I dislike straight-up Reddit/Hacker News clones, including the UI. If Reddit/HN has enough issue to warrant a competitor by cloning the UI, that just repeats the same problem.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by r721 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:34AM (#19096576)

I think ~1 million pageviews (according to SimilarWeb: https://www.similarweb.com/website/notabug.io) is notabug.io+snew.notabug.io (see subdomains section: snew.notabug.io 97.85% notabug.io 2.15%).

So notabug itself is 2% of 1 million ~ 20k pageviews.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by minimaxir on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @12:11PM (#19097108)

That makes more sense, thanks for that clarification!

However, snew.notabug.io is a mirror of the corresponding Reddit posts w/o censorship, which makes it not an alternative! Shenanigans identified!

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by superkuh on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @01:10PM (#19097841)

As one of the most active users of notabug.io: you're not wrong. There's no hypergrowth.

But the tech has real promise and that's the story here. Of course 'alternatives' get the scoundrels first so criticizing it on that merit is a bit generic.

There's value in federated systems with a p2p overlay even if they're not attracting the money driven crowds. You can't post sci-hub links openly on reddit. You can't even discuss how to handle DRM and bypass it.

Centralized systems are always going to go through the same lifecycle after they reach a critical mass requiring real money. It's not pretty. If anyone can self-host from home or even contribute hosting by visiting with a webrtc enabled browser it benefits a lot of groups pushed out for perfectly cromulent reasons.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by jedberg on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:13PM (#19087918)

You do realize that reddit owns Notabug, Inc, yeah?

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by jron on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:17PM (#19087984)

notabug.io isn't owned by Reddit.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by jedberg on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:20PM (#19088030)

I'm aware of that, I'm just saying they own the corporation with the same name, which they got when they acquired Aaron's company.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by skinnymuch on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:03PM (#19088563)

They own Notabug Inc, not notabug.io

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by superkuh on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @12:59PM (#19097709)

There's also a namespace collision on Freenode IRC. The #notabug channel is definitely not for notabug.io it's for the free code hosting group https://notabug.org

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by pier25 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:27PM (#19088127)

The UI is based on some open source repo by Reddit.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by jedberg on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:29PM (#19088155)

Yeah, it's based on the old open source reddit.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by RickSanchez2600 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @11:20PM (#19102974)

Using Gun and Blockchain to mirror content on other servers to prevent data loss.

Notabug.io is a P2P tech using the old Reddit UI.

http://k666.kr5ddit.com/ Is a free and open source version of http://kr5ddit.com made to look like the old Scoop and function like Reddit.

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Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation by Avery3R on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:28PM (#19088823)

I hate how comments pop-in out of order. It's distracting.

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