<story><title> Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewStephens</author><text>There already is a decentralized Reddit where subreddits are called websites and anyone can start one and run it as they please.&lt;p&gt;What Reddit and similar sites bring to the table is a single pool of authenticated users. Once a user is logged into Reddit, posting on different subreddits is frictionless. Even with oauth and the like, it is hard to replicate that with a distributed set of sites.</text></item><item><author>ratfaced-guy</author><text>What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It&amp;#x27;s a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ZainRiz</author><text>I disagree. What Reddit brings to the table is:&lt;p&gt;1. Easy sharing: Subreddits, which are an &lt;i&gt;easy&lt;/i&gt; location to share interesting information about a common topic. Creating your own website is an order of magnitude harder, especially if you want to allow anyone on the internet to post to it&lt;p&gt;2. Discoverability: You can easily discover subreddits information related to your interests.  Reddit&amp;#x27;s ability to aggregate the various information sources and present options that users find interesting is the biggest reason lurkers&amp;amp;voters (90% of it&amp;#x27;s users) keep returning.</text></comment>
<story><title> Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-has-quietly-launched-a-facebook-rival-social-network/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewStephens</author><text>There already is a decentralized Reddit where subreddits are called websites and anyone can start one and run it as they please.&lt;p&gt;What Reddit and similar sites bring to the table is a single pool of authenticated users. Once a user is logged into Reddit, posting on different subreddits is frictionless. Even with oauth and the like, it is hard to replicate that with a distributed set of sites.</text></item><item><author>ratfaced-guy</author><text>What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It&amp;#x27;s a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>signal11</author><text>It’s a little more than just auth. Websites have different codes of conduct, different attitudes to humour&amp;#x2F;off topic content, and crucially different moderation and user safety policies. Remember on most random web forums you have no idea who can see your IP address (if anonymity is important).&lt;p&gt;Much of this is true on Reddit too, except mods seeing your IP address, but most of the important info is consistently in the subreddit sidebar.</text></comment>