Comment on: Distributed open source discussion site like voat?

No worries, I'd only heard of most of these because of the "alternatives to reddit" discussion. Each of these has its pros and cons, though. I don't think anyone has solved the "decentralized alternative to reddit" problem.

And even if someone hits the technical mark perfectly, there is still the social adoption problem. Actually, that reminds me of another project, that is/was supposed to be a decentralized Facebook ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)

... it got a lot of press and was even crowdfunded, but I never hear about it any more.

2 18 Jul 2015 00:47 u/technologyisnatural in v/programming
Comment on: Distributed open source discussion site like voat?

Aether has been getting some love ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6787807

RetroShare is older ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RetroShare

Twister is newer (and uses bitcoin blockchain tech) ...

http://twister.net.co/

There are a whole lot of things like Twister being discussed at https://www.reddit.com/r/decentralizeweb/

Also mentioned every time this subject comes up, the granddaddy of them all ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

2 17 Jul 2015 23:58 u/technologyisnatural in v/programming
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The only thing that works for me: http://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=Q16KpquGsIc

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