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Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by evandwight on Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:58AM (#29130742)
It's not done yet. There's a discord link if you want to chat about how to improve it.

https://efficientdemocracy.com

New name needed

Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by bullen on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:26PM (#29132062)
I also made a reddit clone, but on top of my own HTTP server and database: http://talk.binarytask.com

Democracy only works when you have more energy available than people and that is about to not be the case after 200 years of extracting sunshine from the earths crust. The only thing we're efficient at is to waste energy!

Also "sign in with google"?

Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by evandwight on Saturday November 06, 2021 @02:13PM (#29132454)
> http://talk.binarytask.com

Your own http server/database!?! Do you mean you implemented them from scratch? I'm just using nginx/expressjs & postgres. Edit: rupy! interesting! Does ssl kill it's efficiency?

> Democracy only works ...

Energy limitations seem beyond my lifetime. I just want to see how to run a community based on the will of it's members. Efficiently using their time.

> sign in with google

It's not ideal. I originally implemented my own authentication, however implementing it "securely" is a huge task. My main problem is unknown unknowns. Even big companies have non-perfect authentication, like leaking emails during recovery/login. If the site gets any traction I'll expand the authorisation options.

What do you think I could do to improve the site?

Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by bullen on Saturday November 06, 2021 @04:27PM (#29133538)
HTTPS is garbage, but you can put a HAProxy with SSL in front of it if you want to waste energy... :D

I made my own secure user handling using this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289

Re:The promise and paradox of decentralization by stevenroose on Monday November 08, 2021 @06:25AM (#29148221)
Please be aware of Lemmy, the ActivityPub-compatible Reddit clone. It's in a quite far stadium of functionality, but I'm sure extra development on their moderation systems would be more than welcome!