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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by hedora on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:34PM (#36343030)
I've posted this a few times, but there's a snapshot of reddit from 2017 that you can self host:

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

Why not just do that? Sure, it's a lot of python, and probably full of security holes, but there are enough reddit users to fix that, and the risk that your reddit instance might be taken over by malicious people is lower than the risk that centralized reddit will (since it already has been...)

Anyway, each time I link to it, I get crickets in response. Not sure why.

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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by JustBreath on Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:42PM (#36343173)
Pretty sure the short version is there's a lot more to hosting Reddit than just standing up a server.

It's a slow process that involves building up communities and trust to hit a critical mass.

Pure speculation, but I think Reddit will continue to decline, it'll just be a while longer before everyone migrates from it.

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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by jtode on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:13PM (#36344443)
Maybe because there's a fediverse.
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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by slumberlust on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:31PM (#36344678)
I would think people are hesitant to go down the exact same road as before. How will this address long-term scaling costs and concerns of the new-reddit repeating current-reddit's path?
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