I know everyone is favorable to kbin but I think there's still some questions that need to be answered, such as hosted vs self-hosted, how mirroring works, and issues with impersonation.
Just wait for all the nsfw subreddits to decide where to go and then follow them. Porn always moves first, plus with their API access and bots gone they most likely will have to go somewhere else.
This is fantastic. I wonder if Aether's "data replication" should be yellow? As it relies on users manually deciding to save/archive anything before the six-month mark. Easy to setup, but the expectation of that is slightly less than green dot, no?
Good point, I'll update it. I really like Aether and that would be my vote except I know many people won't use it because it's not accessible on mobile or browser. But it's truly p2p which is great and even though it hasn't had any development in 2 years it's still working perfectly fine which is a testament to the quality.
Absolutely one to keep in the options. I like the look and true p2p is great.
The lack of development is certainly something to track. Ghostware/deadware means as it scales and fixes become necessary, we rely on fresh devs to fork, right?
There is a fork that's being worked on but it seems they're still in the process of updating the libraries.
Plebbit is undergoing pretty heavy dev right now so I'm really looking forward to seeing how that progresses in the coming weeks. I was talking to the team and they're working on a few critical fixes that should yield big improvements. It's also web3 based with wallet integration. I think it's performing well for already being decentralized, working off ipfs, and being this early in development.
I liked what I saw of Plebbit last week, yeah. Please keep an eye on these for us. Although admittedly, folks seem oddly ready to forgive and forget with reddit.
It's bizarre -- the EF sub reopened but many of the comments were espousing how, paraphrasing, "they're so glad to be back as r/ethfinance is the only place they really frequent on reddit!" And I'm like, well if you're already cordoned off to just the EF sub then why's it matter if it's hosted on reddit, aside from server load -- which is a fair point to be addressed. It's a little frustrating in that regard.
I think there's a few separate different camps, each with their own reasoning. I would agree that the caveats with current alternatives make it a tough switch. I'm hopeful that over the next few months to year we'll have some solid options though.
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