Many Subreddits on Reddit are currently going dark in protest against the platform's API changes. Nostr is decentralized where developers do not need to ask permission to build. Nostr fixes Reddit.
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I realized that what was built here has no equal, but the developers have to discover that
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the protocol killed the reddit rulers
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Would love to see a Reddit-style nostr implementation.
Reddit exists due to its community of users and they are Reddit’s fundamental problem, not APIs or third-party apps or permissions but rather a community so toxic and disconnected from reality that it is unbearable for ordinary people to participate in.
Nothing fixes Reddit. They could rebuild on Nostr and it wouldn’t make an iota of difference because the social layer would remain as unbearable as it is now.
Not sure where you see this Reddit community. For me, it is a million communities. Each sub is a cosmos of memes and rules and acceptable styles.
All of the major subs have been subsumed in to the borg ideology. Niche subs get overrun, brigading is accepted against subs which admins don’t like, even subs that have decent communities get overrules by censorious central planners who tolerate only a tiny Overton window on the entire site.
I’ve never been a redditor, so it’s easier for me to say, but I’ve always been baffled by how many have tolerated the capriciousness of Reddit corp and mods.
I was thinking this could be the perfect opportunity to onboard a huge amount of redditors to Nostr. We should create some campaign focused on onboarding these people to Nostr.
There's also something called Lemmy that is supposed to be a decentralized Reddit on the Fediverse. I have not used either of them (Reddit or Lemmy), so I do not know how well it fills the need.
I'm also sure someone will figure out a Nostr based Reddit clone soon.
But fediverse has also the cancel culture, where domain owners wants to block people and other domains
Whos in charge of writing the n/topic NIP?
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