Spezless - A non profit reddit alternative.

Jerry, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, me too. I'm fine with KBIN. And there's already Lemmy as well. spezless is just a proposal. It's got a long way to go before it's viable.

And this bothers me: "90% of revenue will go to moderators & power users". So, there's going to be advertising? I don't think anyone is going to want to see advertising. Or is it a subscription? I don't think that will work either.

And to whom does the remaining 10% go?

skellener, 10 months ago

I’m kinda just fine here with kbin.

couragethecowardlydog, 10 months ago

I actually do really like kbin, I just thought I'd share this after I stumbled across it.

Senseibu, 10 months ago

Most LinkedIn written style post that iv seen outside LinkedIn yet

Badabinski, 10 months ago

I'd hope that it would be federated. I'm feeling increasingly convinced that federation is the path forward for most forums/social media.

couragethecowardlydog, 10 months ago

I love federation but I just don't see it reaching the masses. People want connectivity and simplicity. I am willing to accept a centralized solution if it's a non profit who takes care of moderators. Centralization isn't always terrible, look at Wikipedia.

ono, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Phone calls are federated. Email is federated. Text messages are federated.

I'm certain that federated forums can be made easy enough, too. We just need to keep working on improvements. We haven't yet seen their final form. :)

couragethecowardlydog, 10 months ago

I agree, all those are super easy to use for an end user. I think maybe we need a website where a user can just check a couple boxes about what there interests are and it will automatically choose their instance for them. Would make it easier for those new to the fediverse to get up and going.

JonEFive, 10 months ago

I'm thinking if any fediverse app takes off, we're going to end up with a few monolithic instances sort of like Gmail and Outlook and those instances are where the masses will go. It takes away the "how do I choose an instance" dilemma. I suspect we're already seeing that to some extent with kbin.social.

couragethecowardlydog, 10 months ago

Yeah I think that's where things are going. I myself use kbin.social far more than I use my lemmy.ml or lemmy.world accounts.

JonEFive, 10 months ago

What will be really interesting to see is if we start to get separate instances dedicated to specific topics flourish.

GlennMagusHarvey, 10 months ago

I have a feeling this post is some sort of joke, but as a serious comment, I think decentralization would work better if there were some way to automate assigning new users to instances. This part of onboarding is something that people I know (who have looked at Mastodon then turned down the idea of joining it) have cited as an annoyance. And I know I personally spent some time researching different instances in order to pick my instance, personally.

Contrast Revolt, a relatively recent (in contrast to Matrix) Discord alternative, which a few people people I know jumped right on – despite Discord not having any major/recent “sins” other than messing with the usernames. I mentioned that I’m surprised people so readily picked this up, and someone pointed out that there’s just one centralized place to make a Revolt account.

couragethecowardlydog, 10 months ago

This is 100% the problem. Makes me wonder if I should write a webpage just for automating signups.