Guess saidit is just a new reddit

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[–]Kuasocto 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

If you want almost absolute freedom of speech then I guess kiwi-farms and 4chan are for you. For something reddit-like to work there IS a need for mods, otherwise the subs won't actually be about the topics they're supposed to. If you have a car forum and people keep spamming frog photos and derailing the conversations in the direction of discussing frogs, that does hurt the purpose of a CAR forum.

Or maybe no mods approach could work. Tho that wouldn't be saidit. But now I'm wondering how would a reddit clone work where NO ONE can get ever banned (aside for bots). Maybe such an environment would be able to have specific niche forums that actually work, who knows. People would start to govern themselves instead of looking for mods to ban people they find annoying.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That would be wrong. If someone wants to talk about frogs on a car forum, you just need to setup your clients to filter, instead of the server. Right now, on Reddit there is probably some neural network figuring out whether or not any given post is spam or not, which also makes running social media at scale expensive. If, instead, you would just do the filtering client side and the analysis of the posts would be shared, then the cost could remain low and there is no need for "mods" anymore. A "mod" would be nothing more but an extra input to the client side filtering.

Really, the concept of a mod just derives from power hungry morons.

[–]Kuasocto 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sounds complicated at a technical level. Which is kinda important because most of here are tech cavemen. Probably not you, but you get what I mean.

[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, it would be somewhat complicated, but it's not like it would require new computer science. It would probably be revolutionary and destroy the value of the platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) if it were to exist for 5 years in the way I described it and were to be fully developed.

The only problem with such a model is that there is no real incentive for anyone to do all the work, so it would have to be funded like diaspora was, but it's likely it would need $50M in funding. Of course, one could start with a simpler version, but that one would not achieve the full vision. Ultimately, building a Reddit like experience (sans the dystopia) is a lot of work.