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by parpfish 298 days ago
My ideal social media site would be a slight modification of the link aggregator model.

Instead of a centralized repository of links with comments, it would be a sort of overlay on top of every other website that would create a comment section that isn’t owned or moderated by the original host. It would encourage folks to actual read the original articles and visit those sites, but allow you to have discussions with a particular demographic cohort (e.g., have a discussion among HN crowd on a nytimes article)
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mckn1ght 298 days ago
Sounds kinda like StumbleUpon with comments. I'm not sure I'd like to host unmoderated content on my site, but I do miss the original StumbleUpon experience. Reading through the history of what happened to StumbleUpon in the 2010s is sad, and indicates that this idea may not actually be viable (or maybe was ahead of its time, or maybe wasn't done right).
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basch 297 days ago
It essentially needs to be a p2p/dht list of disconnected hosts who all provide communities that can be overlaid. You dont want one comment section. Then through filters you can enable or disable which communities you want to see.

It also should be a protocol that lets the client decide how to render the organization of comments and the editor.

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jimbob45 298 days ago
So Disqus? (I'm not dismissing you. I like Disqus)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus

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