There's a plethora of alternatives nowadays, but I'm never quite satisfied with how they work. So l had some fun making my own (well Claude did most of it...). The main "innovation" l have is...
There's a plethora of alternatives nowadays, but I'm never quite satisfied with how they work. So l had some fun making my own (well Claude did most of it...).
The main "innovation" l have is rule-based dencentralized moderation (users report, jury is randomly selected and decide on the outcome). I'm not sure it would work at scale but l think it's a fun idea.
I also have media views, text/images/video, to allow each media type on the plateform without having one cannibalizing the others. I also added articles that are supposed to be a bit nicer and more polished posts. A couple of new sites have chats now too and l think it brings a homely vibe to them, so l experimented with an IRC based chat, which is a bit wonky but seems to work.
If you want to give it a try don't be afraid to break things, it's mostly me on there anyway, there's not much too break. Email verification is also disabled so you don't need real email.
For the dev l mostly let Claude do its thing, using the most boring Django+low JS stack, it worked really well for the most part. Although l think someone that doesn't know anything about webdev would still get stuck at some point (e.g. deployment was a bit tricky). I'd open sources at some point if there's any interest but would need cleaning up.
More generally it's quite fun to be able to add almost any crazy feature you can think of. Personally I'd like more "togetherness" features like watch parties or a radio, but there's maybe more legal trouble with those... (e.g. cyberspace.online has a radio that plays youtube videos but hide them somehow).
Since it's inspired by Athenian direct democracy l though a Greek word would do fine, but also common names in domains are expensive or not available so better go with something obscure.
Since it's inspired by Athenian direct democracy l though a Greek word would do fine, but also common names in domains are expensive or not available so better go with something obscure.
Are we not on a reddit alternative right now?
There's a plethora of alternatives nowadays, but I'm never quite satisfied with how they work. So l had some fun making my own (well Claude did most of it...).
The main "innovation" l have is rule-based dencentralized moderation (users report, jury is randomly selected and decide on the outcome). I'm not sure it would work at scale but l think it's a fun idea.
I also have media views, text/images/video, to allow each media type on the plateform without having one cannibalizing the others. I also added articles that are supposed to be a bit nicer and more polished posts. A couple of new sites have chats now too and l think it brings a homely vibe to them, so l experimented with an IRC based chat, which is a bit wonky but seems to work.
If you want to give it a try don't be afraid to break things, it's mostly me on there anyway, there's not much too break. Email verification is also disabled so you don't need real email.
For the dev l mostly let Claude do its thing, using the most boring Django+low JS stack, it worked really well for the most part. Although l think someone that doesn't know anything about webdev would still get stuck at some point (e.g. deployment was a bit tricky). I'd open sources at some point if there's any interest but would need cleaning up.
More generally it's quite fun to be able to add almost any crazy feature you can think of. Personally I'd like more "togetherness" features like watch parties or a radio, but there's maybe more legal trouble with those... (e.g. cyberspace.online has a radio that plays youtube videos but hide them somehow).
This name doesn't work well. What's this, ancient Greek?
It's hard to pronounce with that aspirated
pat the end. Or is it meant to sound like anf?Yeah it mean pebble, it was used to cast votes in ancient Greece.
Why not just call it pebble?
Since it's inspired by Athenian direct democracy l though a Greek word would do fine, but also common names in domains are expensive or not available so better go with something obscure.
I do not think this post belongs on tildes if I may be honest with you.
I think it's just fine with the self-promotion rule, since I'm an old member of tildes and generally do not self-promote.
It’s fine in the weekly programming projects topic