Teddit Is Shutting Down

Re:Teddit Is Shutting Down by mrweasel on Sunday July 16, 2023 @07:18AM (#36745709)

Usenet? The more I think about it, Reddit is just Usenet with better moderation and voting. The voting doesn't make that much sense in the smaller sub-reddits where you'd typically read all the posts anyway. So that basically just leaves you with building better moderation. Still a hard problem, but not impossible.

If we had spent the time building better NNTP clients, rather than trying to integrate with the API of single company, I think we could have had the possibility at least of having true communities.

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Re:Teddit Is Shutting Down by toyg on Sunday July 16, 2023 @01:18PM (#36749353)

NNTP was a bit of a dumpster fire though. Each ISP carrying some groups, or none at all, losing messages left and right ... Those problems cannot be solved with a better client, they were fundamental issues.

Now, if you had said "if we had spent the time building a better NNTP protocol and servers", I would have agreed. In the end, that's basically what the fediverse is.

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Re:Teddit Is Shutting Down by mrweasel on Sunday July 16, 2023 @03:09PM (#36750411)

The fediverse might be technically better, but it's a big mess. Is it PubSub, is it Mastodon, Lemmy, Podcasting 2.0? We're trying to put way to many project and ideas into "The Fediverse" to provide a clear trajectory.

I feel like it would have been easier to fix NNTP. It had at least a clear focus.

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