Re:Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation
by Communitivity on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @01:15PM
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Mastodon is an alternative to Twitter.
The Join Mastodon website [https://joinmastodon.org/] has a good introduction.
Mastodon is not currently an alternative to Reddit though, but I think it could be, if it got significant contributions towards forum functionality. Perhaps by treating each tag, or each of a certain type of tag, as an individual forum. A 'Trunk'?
On the other hand, Discourse [https://www.discourse.org/about] might be a better candidate for an alternative, in some ways. With Discourse though each "Reddit" would be a Discourse board on a specific server. To do a true Reddit alternative you'd need to plug individual Discourse servers into a P2P mesh.
Ideally I'd like to see a Discourse-like or Reddit-like UI on top of a Mastodon back-end (which would be using ActivityPub).
If you want to work on this as well please let me know and maybe we can work together on it (@BillBarnhill on Mastodon.technology or Twitter).
Mastodon is not currently an alternative to Reddit though, but I think it could be, if it got significant contributions towards forum functionality. Perhaps by treating each tag, or each of a certain type of tag, as an individual forum. A 'Trunk'?
On the other hand, Discourse [https://www.discourse.org/about] might be a better candidate for an alternative, in some ways. With Discourse though each "Reddit" would be a Discourse board on a specific server. To do a true Reddit alternative you'd need to plug individual Discourse servers into a P2P mesh.
Ideally I'd like to see a Discourse-like or Reddit-like UI on top of a Mastodon back-end (which would be using ActivityPub).
If you want to work on this as well please let me know and maybe we can work together on it (@BillBarnhill on Mastodon.technology or Twitter).