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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by linuxydave on Monday October 27, 2014 @06:16PM (#8518491)
>I'm pretty sure he was referring to the part of the article that mentions the folks on comp.lang.lisp who were discussing writing a competitor to Reddit in Lisp.

Yep, spot-on. It's the same with those guys who wanted to make a Facebook clone focused on privacy or whatever. Lots of talk and then you never hear about the project again.

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by ryanfreeborn on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @02:30AM (#8519770)
You mean Diaspora? (or maybe there's another clone I missed out on). The founder of Diaspora committed suicide. I think the project mostly died with him.
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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by dbdr on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @06:15AM (#8520215)
Wow, I didn't know about this suicide :(

Is the project really dead though? I have no personal experience, but these stats show a growing number of active users: http://pods.jasonrobinson.me/

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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by ryanfreeborn on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @09:42PM (#8525006)
Oh interesting. I didn't know it was still moving along. It had a lot of momentum a few years back, but hasn't been making nearly as much noise since. Not sure if the founder's suicide actually correlated with the dropoff in media attention.
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Re:Rewriting Reddit (2005) by linuxydave on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @10:50AM (#8521215)
Didn't know about Diaspora or the suicide. Sorry to hear that it happened :(
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