Is there any interest in an alternative with a strict No Politics rule and referral invitation system for users?
Posted by busymom0@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 14 comments
I am a developer and can build pretty complex apps and sites on my own.
Is there any interest in an alternative with the following:
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Strict no politics and no flamewar rule.
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Referral system where new users are invited by existing ones. This might help maintain the quality of new users and also prevent spam.
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Funded via the app via things like custom themes, ability to bookmark etc additional features.
I am curious why the above may be good/bad?
UnflinchingSugartits@reddit
I'm down I can't stand the political shit
BlazeAlt@reddit
"crazy lemmy admins" are only on lemmy.ml
The rest of the instance admins are fine. Lemm.ee and lemmy.zip especially are quite good, reactive and transparent
Efficient_Star_1336@reddit
The killer for alternatives is getting users, not gating them. As for no politics, I think it's a nice thing to want, but ultimately there are plenty of apolitical subreddits and nobody's annoyed enough by the occasional r politics boomer who can't stop bring up Orange Man to switch to a completely new website.
Ultimately, if you want to have an invite-only anything, you've got to have something worth getting invited to. A pre-existing community of people with a valuable skill or some kind of status, or a piece of software that the community revolves around using, or something. Even random alternatives with no barrier to entry at all tend to attract about five users on average before dying off.
twat69@reddit
No politics like this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/FragileWhiteRedditor/comments/urfulb/if_i_cant_relate_to_you_your_identity_is_political/
nachohk@reddit
God you're so cynical. No, obviously what OP means is that their alternative would be a zen empty space with no posts or comments whatsoever.
textandstage@reddit
No
Low-Law-6153@reddit
It already exists and it's kind of dead, Tildes.
samtwheels@reddit
Tildes is fairly active actually, but it doesn't have a no politics rule
busymom0@reddit (OP)
Yes, I am aware of Tildes. I believe it's dead because their invitation system is too restricted and the developer has even said they don't want it to grow.
Would it be better without invitation system?
What did you think of the no politics rule?
Low-Law-6153@reddit
Politics are almost what power all the reddit alternatives. Hacker news is for developers.
No politics is fine, but then you have to ask this question: What is your niche?
stay_fr0sty@reddit
Fuck no.
Annie_Benlen@reddit
I might check it out. But how would one go about getting invited? I'm an elderly almost shut-in, so I assume I wouldn't be welcome? What sort of things would you like your user base to discuss?
Sounds interesting, but I dunno how the invitation-only would work out.
busymom0@reddit (OP)
Mostly a referral code. Existing users could generate as many referral codes and give it to others to join. Obviously, they would need to do some due diligence before inviting someone. So, for example, look at their existing comments on places like reddit/hacker news/twitter etc to see if the person is real and not a bot.
I am still researching this topic. So feedback is welcome.
mmxmlee@reddit
no politics would be boring