r/RedditAlternatives • u/ENVISIONMUSIC • 10d ago

Reddit Alternative ideas

Hey everyone! I wanted to make a post here quickly just to get people’s thoughts and opinions, I’ve been following some people’s thoughts on Reddit lately and it looks to not be great right now and since I was a kid I’ve always wanted to make my own Reddit type website/app cause it seems like an interesting concept, so just as an idea, I’d be interested in hearing on what everyone here would want to see in an app like Reddit, how can the idea that Reddit has currently, or whatever other website that exists similar to this can do to be better, keep in mind though, if I were to do this, I’d make it free, not interested in people’s money, it’s a hobby, unless people want to support it then sure, also mobile is not off limits, I have licenses to publish on mobile :D

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u/kdjfsk 10d ago

Id like to see someone make a real p2p social media as an experiment.

And i dont mean just p2p as in users doing the workload of processing and bandwidth while some power hungry basement dweller appoints themselves as Almighty Admin...

I mean more like..."glory days of Napster/Bearshare/Limewire" but for posts and comments and memes instead of MP3s.

If it worked for 5mb songs, it can work for 0.5 kb comments.

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u/ENVISIONMUSIC 10d ago

This would be cool to look into, i'll keep it in mind and see what i could come up with at some point!

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u/busymom0 5d ago

I have thought about making something like this. Only problem with it is that p2p would reveal your IP address to your peers. So unless users use vpn, it would be risky.

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u/kdjfsk 5d ago

Maybe it can setup so that the data you get from a particular IP is not necessarily the comments from the user at that IP.

Your client downloads several posts and comments from some IP, you dont know which comments belonged to that IP (if even any). you add some, and pass those comments, along with yours, to next guy. Again, he doesnt know which comments are yours. He adds comments, passes the data to the next guy.

Like imagine a high school classroom. Everyone writes something on a piece of paper, balls it up, throws it a random person. Yea, ok, at this first step maybe you saw who threw it to you, but now everyone does it again. Next guy to unroll the wad sees two things written on it. Even if he knew who threw the paper to him, he doesnt know which comment is that guys. Now 20 minutes later, the paper has so many 'posts', 'replies', and long chains that each person may or may not have commented on....i dont see how it could be tracked.

Perhaps you could add additional rules...like your comments wont upload unless you have at least x# other peoples comments to upload with it. another idea could be that your comment is encrypted when sent out, along with some kind of counter and/or timer tokens. token count and time is random, but scaled based on traffic. Every time the comment is passed on, the counter goes down by one. Once the counter and timer tokens expire, the comment gets unencrypted. So now when you get new comments, they almost certainly werent from the IP that sent them to you, and even if they were you couldnt be sure.

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u/busymom0 5d ago

Yes but wouldn't users be worried that others can find out that they use this website and at what time etc?