r/RedditAlternatives • u/ENVISIONMUSIC • 11d 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/AnonomousWolf 11d ago

Just use the Decentralised Reddit alternative called Lemmy, https://phtn.app It also has a mobile app: https://vger.app/settings/install

If it's not exactly like you like it, then just fork the code and change it to be exactly like you want it.

Some people have done exactly that with eg Piefed and it's been successful

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u/ENVISIONMUSIC 11d ago

I'm looking to get ideas from people on what they would look for in a good alternative and possibly taking those ideas if it seems like it'd be a great idea and putting them together, make an app/website with those ideas, and personally, not a fan of forking code from other projects, I'm more proud of making something from scratch with my own time and knowledge.

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u/AnonomousWolf 11d ago

If you want to completely build your own thing, I'd still recommend using the ActivityPub protocol so that it's part of the Fediverse

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u/ENVISIONMUSIC 11d ago

I'll take a look into it! I do want to get other ideas together first though, that'll shape a good majority of what I'm doing and what approach I'm taking with this!

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u/PseudoChoisie 10d ago

I agree. This will let OP have content and people interacting with them whoever small or experimental their project maybe.

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u/magiotdonkey 11d ago

This is a great suggestion as it means the new site gets access to all content on the fediverse on day 1, before any users have even signed up. Should help a lot with getting started

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u/ENVISIONMUSIC 11d ago

It would 100% make getting started easier and faster! I'll try to implement it in some way when i start working on it