Why is it such a problem to create a reddit clone?
I’m assuming it’s the user base; most attempts I’ve seen are either empty or focus on non-mainstream and often controversial content.
Are there ways to address that? Or is there something else?
I’m assuming it’s the user base; most attempts I’ve seen are either empty or focus on non-mainstream and often controversial content.
Are there ways to address that? Or is there something else?
And they've been about as successful as Google plus.
It's indeed the community.
I think one problem people here underestimate is the cost of running the required infra. I seem to remember voat fell under it's own weight?
As for the usage.. there's some, but it is niche. The average user just won't move unless something goes from so-so-satisfactory to offensive. This is how mastodon got its (seemingly brief) user spike.
To me that starts to sound a lot like each subreddit could be replicated as an instance of something like Mastodon, and you're really only some kind of shared user database away from being able to make something that functions exactly like Reddit, but without any corporate control.
An idea: Twitter has lots of users, maybe Elon could build Reddit-like features into it.