I stumbled onto this while discussing with some friends the possibility of someone creating a "distributed Reddit". I thought it might bring the opportunity to discuss some Reddit alternatives.
Does anything similar to Reddit but with a model more like Wordpress exist? Perhaps there's interest in offering independently hosted sub-communities that can be centrally linked to for discoverability? Could it provide subdomains such as programming.newreddit.com which pointed to an externally hosted community?
Is what I'm describing what Diaspora was attempting to create? I haven't honestly looked into it very much. Many people have suggested trying out http://voat.co which looks like is open source. Someone may be able to leverage that.
> Does anything similar to Reddit but with a model more like Wordpress exist? Perhaps there's interest in offering independently hosted sub-communities that can be centrally linked to for discoverability? Could it provide subdomains such as programming.newreddit.com which pointed to an externally hosted community?
I was just talking to a friend about setting this up.
1. Take the reddit codebase, strip off all the subreddit stuff so you've got one "subreddit" per site, and set up a WordPress.com-like site to allow people launch instances of that in a cloud somewhere, with a profit margin to you;
2. (optional) create an "aggregation" API for the instances and an "aggregator" site+app that lets people sign-in to subscribe to conformant sites (y'know, like an RSS reader), then spits out a reddit-front-page-like index. All the links and votes and such are API calls back to the originating servers; the aggregator is just a read-only consumer of the sites.
You'll need to tie the deployment to a payment mechanism to achieve this for a subset of users without giving control to a single entity. I have some ideas how to do that.
This sounds like a more complicated version of disqus. Disqus lets you integrate the discussion thread on your website. And also agregates some recommended content on their own site. They even do voting. So it is basicly all there.
I am currently working on a feedly alternative that also integrates the ranking of the aggregated site and design wise looks a bit more like Medium. But the main Goal would be to implement something I would call a smart group courating feature. I am yet undecided if I really should integrate dicussions. They seem like a lot of work with little reward.
Go look on the csharp subreddit. There is a thread there about it with a lot of posts. It was a learning project for a student to learn C# AFAIK. The code reflects this beginning.
Does anything similar to Reddit but with a model more like Wordpress exist? Perhaps there's interest in offering independently hosted sub-communities that can be centrally linked to for discoverability? Could it provide subdomains such as programming.newreddit.com which pointed to an externally hosted community?
Is what I'm describing what Diaspora was attempting to create? I haven't honestly looked into it very much. Many people have suggested trying out http://voat.co which looks like is open source. Someone may be able to leverage that.