notabug

notabug.io was significantly better than this. The code is still on github for anyone who wants to try now that there's another wave of reddit exodus. https://github.com/notabugio/notabug

That's because the first users pushed off any community and looking for alternatives are mostly genuine assholes. They're only the first but it makes it so "alternative" sites are really off-putting during their early days and this limits growth. notabug.io was favorite reddit-alike: https://github.com/notabugio/notabug . It was designed to be both server<->server federated and p2p to bridge content between unfederated servers. But like above, it was quickly over-run with genuine assholes which made using it distasteful and it eventually died. The technology was and is amazing. notabug is a p2p link aggregator app that is: distributed: peers backup/serve content anonymous: but don't trust it to be psuedo-anonymous: users can create optional cryptographic identities immutable: edits are not supported for anonymous conte

https://tildes.net (source: https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes, github mirror: https://github.com/spectria/tildes, Python back-end, made by dude who worked on old reddit) https://lobste.rs (source: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters, Ruby back-end) https://lemmy.ml (source: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy , Rust back-end, federated, in-development but usable) https://postmill.xyz (source: https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill, PHP back-end) There's also https://github.com/notabugio/notabug a P2P fork of old reddit UI (that used to be open source itself, old version: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit), and there's https://notabug.org/zPlus/freepost, I just found it searching for this stuff, those are the ones I know of.

Check out Aether[1] and Notabug[2] for some spiritual successors btw. [1]: https://github.com/nehbit/aether [2]: https://github.com/notabugio/notabug

Sadly, LBRY isn't able to track view counts. Which makes organic, network effects really difficult. Maybe they could implement a naive "view tracking" by having the client do small proof of work when they interact with content? Similar to voting in NotaBug? https://github.com/notabugio/notabug

Exactly this already exists, but no blockchain is needed: https://notabug.io/ (beware of content: anonymous decentralized reddit!) @go1dfish runs NAB and all the code is at https://github.com/notabugio/notabug . It is built with my P2P graph protocol ( https://github.com/amark/gun ), + he has some custom implementations of it.

> I really wish someone with more free time than me would combine a bunch of current buzzwords (distributed, blockchain, whatever) and cook up something that was easy to use but still free from the tyranny of special interest and / or profit. Enter my project: https://notabug.io But honestly at this point in its development code contributions are more important than crypto if you can spare it. https://github.com/notabugio/notabug

https://notabug.io https://github.com/notabugio/notabug My goal is to replicate reddit, but the distributed nature of notabug would allow you to experiment with these ideas on your own peer, or possibly just a custom UI build.