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Re:Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 ... by jrnichols on Sunday June 04, 2023 @02:52PM (#36188345)
> What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative?

One already exists in Lemmy.

I suspect a big hurdle is dealing with all of the laws & regulations that exist in the United States. I've already seen one good sized mastodon instance vanish forever because hostile actors flooded it with actual child abuse material. And despite #fediblock, new instances with hate speech spring up all the time.

Re:Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 ... by brvsft on Sunday June 04, 2023 @06:02PM (#36190019)
Are "all of the laws and regulations" against "child abuse material" specific to the US?