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You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on (matrix.gvid.tv)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's sort of a different concept. Posts and users also have position in addition to age and score. The sorting algorithm gives you complete control over how much to weight each one. It's like if new and hot existed on a continuous spectrum. It's sort of like what Aaron Swartz initially wanted to do with Reddit where what you like would be able to inform what you might like in the future. But in this case you get complete control over how much that matters.

I'm adding bits and knobs here and there every day. Yesterday I added the ability to have posts that are hidden from the front page. It's probably not a feature people will use every day but it's there if someone wants it and it's things like that I'm working on every day. In a little bit I'm going to add a "post whenever" feature in case someone wants to post a ton of content and have it actually post over time.

I'd say all and all the project has been a success for what I wanted to do with it and I'm happy with what I've built. The other side of it is trying to build community on the site. For example we do a movie night once a week on Saturdays.

Oh. Another thing that is different to most reddit clones is that every community exists. Like you don't have to create a community to post to it. Just post to it. Different capitalization maps to the same community.

You guys should check it out. It would be super awesome if anynone wants to help fill in the more obscure topics.

https://matrix.gvid.tv

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[+] [email protected] -32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

You are always welcome to change that.

I am trying to make it more balanced. In an ideal world I would like it to be here: https://img.gvid.tv/i/4EhvD43g.png

But like I said elsewhere I'm not in the market of controlling what other people think so I'm going to let people who decide they want to influence what the site becomes do exactly that. Influence it. Anyone can.

I think this is one of the benefits of positional posts. On every site it seems that there has to be a conflict over who occupies it in exclusion to others. But what if these people just interacted less? What if people who want to see only posts like their way of thinking could get exactly that. And people who want to see an uncurrated representation of all thought could see that. That's the benefit of positional posts plus letting people weigh the factors of the algorithm themselves.

Maybe small free speech sites always end up dominated by the wrong people because the right people give up too easily. The problem is it relegates every small project to being one thing no matter how unique a project is or what kind of cool potential it has unless that project engages in the same kind of control that made us hate reddit. All because one side wants to fight to promote their ideas and another side just wants to be comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Maybe small free speech sites always end up dominated by the wrong people because the right people give up too easily.

You are running the place, who else is going to keep them from taking over? People who are not invested will just go somewhere else where the moderation takes care of the terrible people.

[+] [email protected] -17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

What's going to stop you from taking over? It's a completely symmetric situation until you decide the world shouldn't be defined by effort but instead utopia is defined by someone else applying thought control on anyone but you.

BTW pretty much all of those post would be allowed here. So your demand is that free speech sites engage in a level of moderation beyond the site you currently use.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What's going to stop you from taking over?

Sane, rational people don't want to take over anything. We just want to vote for reasonable governments, let said government get on with governing and get on with our lives. We don't want to be bombarded with all this political bullshit everywhere we turn - MAGA stickers and Fuck Biden stickers, you can't open any comment thread on any public social media post without some idiot blaming Biden for the most ridiculous things.

Since the growth of the internet and social media these right wing nazi fucktards have figured out they can weaponise their followers to take over anything at any level and with your attitude to this site that's exactly what I predict will happen there.

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