Throwing my hat in the ring with itsasmall.world
I've been working on a different project (not the reddit alternative) for a while, and one thing I wanted to do was set up a community for my users. My must haves are: open (not private-community-based), indexable by scrapers, and free to join. I tried a bunch of different platforms but for one reason or another I didn't want to commit to them.
So earlier this year I started working on my own platform. It's inspired by 2016 reddit but I'm adding a few of my own ideas too (like subcommunities, but that's still a work in progress). I just launched it on itsasmall.world
A few of the key features:
- Users can create communities for free
- No email required
- Anonymous comments (with a IP-based reputation system and other anti-spam features)
- Push notifications in the PWA
- Emojis in usernames and community names
Right now the site is empty except for my other project's community, which I haven't even launched yet so there's no activity right now. But I'm getting very close to launching the other project and itsasmall.world itself is now v1 stable, so I figured I'd make a post here to see if anyone is interested in something like this.
I figured since I'll be hosting it for my own community, that I may as well welcome others. I know it's not decentralized but it's what I need for myself so that's what it is. I can afford to host a lot of text but I cannot afford to host media like images/videos/gifs so that's not supported right now, which I'm framing as a blessing in disguise considering the amount of absolute AI garbage infecting reddit these days.
Anyway if you have feedback please post in the /c/meta community or here