Reddit VS Mastodon

Reddit has over half a billion accounts as of 2024. To support that, they use PostgreSQL as a ThingDB (sort of key-value store) and as a regular SQL database. See more in their write-up.

Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

While it would likely have zero overlap with the code in use today if you look at the old code Reddit used to publish for voting the model at that point used to have flags/checks for :

I've been trying to host my own instance of Reddit from archived source code on GitHub. Even though I am aware that's probably not a good idea since many dependencies are broken and there's practically no documentation on anything (and it's really old legacy code), but I still decided to give it a shot.

Shh, don't tell spez, the code is already available on the github https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/

Automod to act based on keywords/domains/etc., ideally using the same language/flags/regex/etc. of the original automod (old code) so that it's possible to use existing code. (For detecting off-topic posts, enforcing a title format, reminding the users to add missing details to post, filtering profanity, shadowbanning spammers, etc.)

Reddit pre enshittification is actually open source so spinning up your own Reddit instance should be trivially easy. I’m very surprised no one did this after the API protests started

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

There are already 1:1 reddit clones based on older versions of their software that was open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

No, nothing cute like that.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079

The instance owner has absolute anonymity and absolute power to snoop with no access logs and no known identity. CCPA? GDPR? Access controls? Good luck! You can leave the instance, but you're leaving all your data behind for them or any future owner of the instance to do whatever they want with... forever.

And even if you trust them and everyone they will ever meet, people can and do store their server logs unencrypted.

Then argue they can't help it and you don't "get it" because that's just how the architecture has to work in order to... well it's not clear why this is a good design for the user or any better than other social media.

1) You still don't own your data

Fantastic!

Now he's not there to block progress [0], can we remove Mastodon's intentional DDoS please and just include the link preview in the toot. Add a disclaimer on the UI saying "link preview comes from toot" if it makes you happy. Then Mastodon can be a good web citizen and not a force for evil.

It's only been an open problem for 7 years. Nothing in the grand scheme of things.

[0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/4486#issuecommen...

And the admin should probably use the automatic setting. There is a feature request for a user preference when not logged in.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30193

Now, by default Mastodon follows your browser's light/dark theme preference.

Mathstodon must have it's setting configured as dark, overriding the default.

Maybe email them and ask for it to be fixed?

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29748/commits/9ece...

Mastodon is not easy for regimes to completely block, and most instances won't block you for using Tor. Mastodon saw a huge migration from Brazil when X was blocked there.

https://joinmastodon.org/

git clone https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon.git live cd live # checkout latest stable tag git checkout $(git tag -l | grep -v rc | tail -n 1) # install Ruby gems gem install bundler bundle config set deployment 'true' bundle config set without 'development test' bundle install # install JS packages yarn install --frozen-lockfile

Mastodon is a decentralized, open-source social network that works similarly to Twitter but is federated across servers.