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I had the pleasure of interviewing the anonymous developer of the fastest organically growing decentralized p2p app notabug.io I feel its relevant to this conversation. Why are we not switching to decentralized content sharing platforms? :S

https://electronicsforu.com/resources/cool-stuff-misc/future... https://electronicsforu.com/resources/cool-stuff-misc/future...

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The top post on notabug right now is "Tampermonkey script for auto-voting on notabug, lets level the playing field". The site has like 10 users and it's already destroyed by bots. Anarchy isn't a good approach to running a site if you want anything useful to come out of it.

The way I see it, it looks like the original internet, remember 4chan? the rise of bulletin boards? We can't all be complaining about the current services being exploitative or broken without being a part of a solution. I'm all ears to move away from decentralization if there is a better solution. Currently, there are none.

Not having a solution for a hard problem doesn't disqualify people from pointing to an obviously bad one and calling it out. This jank old.reddit.com fork is not the solution.

> Why are we not switching to decentralized content sharing platforms?

Because that site looks like a phishing site for reddit accounts. How is 100% cloning another site's design acceptable at all?

Geez! It's a design that all are familiar with, UX 101 and facebook does it all the time! No one 'cloned a site' the whole backend infrastructure is different. Did you read it at all?

Facebook doesn't copy and paste the css of competitors. That site did. I didn't read any of the interview, I just went to the site like most users would.

Also HN looks like a clone of reddit!

No, it is 100% a clone. HN is similar to reddit, that site is literally identical.

Would you like to work on the UX and make something new? They are open source, volunteer-driven and open to new contributors :) We all start somewhere!

> How is 100% cloning another site's design acceptable at all?

1. The design is open source under a CPAL license which notabug abides by

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/tree/753b17407e9a9d...

2. a goal of notabug is to support existing reddit stylesheets with minimal/no modifications; this requires dom compatibility and minimal CSS changes in the base design.

3. reddit is abandoning this formerly open source design in favor of their new design by default.

"In the year 2015, 4 years before the global explosion of privacy-awareness dialogues"

Really, what's happened in the last 3 weeks?

"starting in the wake of facebook’s Cambridge analytical scandal"

That was November 2017

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