does it exist and works on scale, or it is like communism where everyone will be happy, but it is never achievable and sustainable just because most of the people want money, power and free stuff.
And yes, the entire foundation structure of the platform and protocol are quite different, that's kinda the point. ActivityPub and Matrix protocol are similar in this regard. And yes the AP impls are seeing huge explosions in growth in the last 3 weeks.
Riku, I can't reply to you because this site is a joke, but I don't think I want to anyway, you don't seem to get the point, across the board. Not everything is about profit for bleep's sake. Also, I'll sign up for s month of reddit premium if you can find 3 subs that voted to re-open. Or literally any single person besides you and spez that think every single app dev is scamming, and nearly every single mod.
And no reddits infra is not a most, lmao. Their site crashes daily and runs on AWS, and every single bit of value is derived from the people you accuse of spamming - you know the ones that keep voting to keep the homepage looking like a wasteland of porn and AITA posts. You're completely out of touch.
I am not familiar with all those projects, but my understanding is that reddit's moats are:
- infra which can serve significant traffic over petabytes of content with search and recommendation on top of them
- they have bootstrapped content volume and communities
- they have monetization in place which pays for all infra and salaries
how far mentioned projects from that state?
Search? Reddit search is so bad it’s practically a meme. They only added the ability to search within comments (y’know, like 90% of the site) _this year_.
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/11dgwzy/whats_up_wi...
> they have bootstrapped content volume and communities
Do you mean when the founders (including current CEO) posted as a bunch of fake users to create the illusion that it was popular?
https://venturebeat.com/social/reddit-fake-users/
> they have monetization in place which pays for all infra and salaries
How is possible if Reddit has never been profitable/reached breakeven?
https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve...