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Im hoping for a ActivityPub[1] reddit clone (or maybe I will start writing one myself if I have time). At that point it will be downhill for Reddit.

Imagine, even HN could be a federated node...

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

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There is one such project in the works: https://mastodon.social/@prismo

(Note that the project is Prismo, not Mastodon - their web presence just happens to be a Mastodon profile at the moment.)

How do their 'subreddits' work? It would be really cool if prismo was sort of an aggregate of independent 'subreddit' servers.

No idea, unfortunately; that Mastodon page is all I know of it. I'm keeping an eye on it though, just in case. I agree that that would definitely be cool.

Edit: Some more info at these links:

- https://medium.com/we-distribute/prismo-is-a-decentralized-l...

- https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100289732805767260

- https://mastodon.social/@prismo/100237371462435727

> Individual instances might be able to choose between representing themselves as one big subreddit, or as a collection of multiple subreddits.

Isn't that the sort of thing Mastodon is about or are you picturing it differently?

I think Mastodon is more like Twitter and PeerTube[1] is like Yoututbe. Both use Activity Pub.

[1] https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube

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