What’s really baffling to me is that a bunch of nerds with too much free time on their hands basically stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.
Yet Reddit spends millions on development every year, for no discernable improvement whatsoever, while still turning no profit.
Where is all that money going? Seriously, Reddit is a very simple site. There’s nothing that hard about it. The amount of data is tiny, since the content is external, none of the resources are that time critical, a lot of content can be cached.
What are the devs doing all day?
stomped out a fully fledged Reddit alternative within a few months, including multiple frontends and apps.
what/who are you referring to? the reddit ceo or reddit users?
The confusion for me was that when I stomp something out, it dies. That’s not the intended verb here, but context clues alone do not a language make.
The ideas leading to Lemmy go back at least a decade, that I can remember. There are many little things that people figured out when developing distributed federated social media networks of this type. It’s a success story of collaboration over a long time with a shared goal of making Reddit and Twitter easy to replace with a superior product.
I’m surprised that nobody has tried to turn Facebook into a distributed service or perhaps they have and I just haven’t noticed.
I’m not really interested in a Twitter alternative as I never really used the original. But I would like a less shitty Facebook.
If somebody could basically just make Google plus again, but then actually let people use it, that would be great.
