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0 pointstoomuchtodo4y ago0 comments

If Apollo is the interface, what is Reddit besides a JSON document store and object storage for media? Once Apollo is big enough (network effects, critical mass, whatevs), it could spin off of Reddit as the backend (Cloudflare R2 for objects, workers and KV for comments). You can even backfill from the numerous Reddit archives (Internet Archive, Pushshift, etc) out there.

(Apollo user with an interest in a distributed web platform)

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SllX4y ago

> If Apollo is the interface, what is Reddit besides a JSON document store and object storage for media?

A community, or if you prefer, a community of communities. That part is essential.

toomuchtodoOP4y ago

Yeah, agree. I'm arguing for disintermediation of the community from the corporate entity attempting to squeeze as much value out of the community as possible (and in the process, being a hot potato from one company to the next). Communities deserve better (Stackoverflow and Wikipedia come to mind), and the technology primitives are stupid simple. Perhaps I've been reading too much Neal Stephenson and Cory Doctorow lately!

SllX4y ago

Philosophically? Sure. But with how the masses act and behave and take interest in, getting the critical mass of non-technical people you would need to make it work is a massive hurdle.

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Reddit will skate by with inertia for years to come no matter how suicidally they behave because they have mass appeal. Losing one audience doesn’t matter because they have millions of other audiences. You start up a social network that interests mainly technical people and the journalists that report on them, well it’s just not going to thrive because after the honeymoon period is over, the network just starts to look stale and slowly die off. E.g. Google+.

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true_religion4y ago

When it was just text, Reddit was cheap enough to run that it was kind of questionable why they needed so much VC funding.

bee_rider4y ago

I wonder if Lemmy instances are similar enough that the app could just be pointed toward them.

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0 pointstoomuchtodo4y ago0 comments

(Apollo user with an interest in a distributed web platform)

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SllX4y ago

> If Apollo is the interface, what is Reddit besides a JSON document store and object storage for media?

A community, or if you prefer, a community of communities. That part is essential.

toomuchtodoOP4y ago

SllX4y ago

Philosophically? Sure. But with how the masses act and behave and take interest in, getting the critical mass of non-technical people you would need to make it work is a massive hurdle.

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true_religion4y ago

When it was just text, Reddit was cheap enough to run that it was kind of questionable why they needed so much VC funding.

bee_rider4y ago

I wonder if Lemmy instances are similar enough that the app could just be pointed toward them.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse