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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for the recommendation, I added it on our new saidit alternatives list here! https://saidit.net/s/SaiditAlternatives/comments/1vud/list_of_active_saidit_alternatives_20/

[–]macadoum[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

What I like about Littr is that the guy behind it deliberately doesn't add the ability for users to create subs. Littr is monosub. If you want to speak about something else, create your own littr instance, which will be federated. This way, I think discussions can be more focused than in reddit, saidit or other reddit-like. Monosub helps to improve discussions, I think. There is no misuse or confusion in which sub to post like we can see in saidit with AskSaidit, Saidit, SaiditCSStheme, etc.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Ah that's cool, so it's like hackernews, with no sub system.

Interesting about the federated instances, I wonder how easy those are to set up?

The monosub will be useful when the website is small and has a good community. But the problem, imo, is if some other community comes in as reddit refugees or whatever and takes over the place, then the monosub becomes a monocommunity that drowns out other types of content. Maybe it won't happen, but I wonder how they would deal with such a problem if it arose.

Thanks for sharing and for making good use of this sub!

[–]macadoum[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think it's not easy to set up right now.

But something I never understood is when a tag can't replace a sub ? I mean, a sub is different from a tag just by adding some CSS and add a join button. Reddit at some time had a tag system right ? But very misused.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

For us it would be extremely easy to make another site.

I'm not sure what benefits a tagging system would bring over a sub system? Especially after we implement a crossposting system to group the comments from different subs together for the same link

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Feel free to repost this in /s/DecentralizeAllThings.

Added to /s/DecentralizeAllThings/wiki.