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Ask HN: Could something like HN work on the fediverse?

by ParadiseEclipse on 1/21/21, 10:34 PM with 8 comments

Recently reading up on things like Mastodon as a replacement for Twitter, and PeerTube as a replacement for Youtube. What about something as a replacement for things like reddit/HN? Is that feasible?

  • by schwartzworld on 1/22/21, 2:02 AM

    Lemmy is doing this.

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

    I know of the dev instance and chapo.chat, but I'm sure there are a few others.

  • by SubGenius on 1/21/21, 10:45 PM

    Not the fediverse, but I'm working on moving Gurlic's backend to matrix and opening up the code. Which means people should be able to host their own matrix server and run a Gurlic instance. Still a heavy WIP though.

    I don't see why it wouldn't work. Matrix is a solid protocol to work with. The only thing I want to be careful about is ensuring that the UI has none of the weirdness usually found in decentralized apps.

  • by Jtsummers on 1/21/21, 10:52 PM

    Usenet (via NNTP) was pretty widespread at one point, and is akin to a federated/distributed Reddit. So I don't see why it couldn't technically work now. But you have to find a way to drive up adoption to hit a sufficient level of users and hosts.

  • by lordkrandel on 1/21/21, 10:54 PM

    I reply with one acronym: BBS