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I have a clone of the old school Reddit up and running. I’m not quite sure where to take it - on one hand I don’t want to open it to a wide audience because I don’t want the burden of moderation, on the other hand Reddit gets increasingly problematic on so many levels and I miss losing out on legitimately good online spaces for some of my hobbies & interests.

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The challenge of moderation is a can of worms.

I've thought long and hard about how a new comer could get around the issues but never came up with anything rock solid. SMS / Email is maximum sign up resistance but could help. Also being able to browse before making an account is key for new users but then you're open to bots.

Anyone got some good idears?

I think having a handful of trusted moderators to have a higher level access to nuke posts, or see notices for posts with a high downvote:upvote ratio so they can nuke as an option...

Aside from that, the voting system X uses for community notes is pretty neat and something similar could work as well.

I've spent a bit of time on this as well... wanting to spin up a modern BBS and thinking maybe just a TUI over SSH might be enough to get something interesting without opening up to the heavy spam bots.

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