What do you think about account-free communities?
Posted by JohnRogan1234@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 9 comments
To be clear, We're not as unmoderated as 4chan.
What We want is something simpler, posting without accounts.
We honestly don’t get why people need to sign up and log in just to post, like on most communities including Reddit, Stack Overflow and Quora.
We'd like to hear your thoughts.
optimisticalish@reddit
I guess a suite of auto-moderators might be devised, given the power and adaptability of new local LLM models such as Gemma 4 26B? One might first have a smaller cadre of 'trusted users' at the start, who are allowed to tag bot / spam / dimwit posts. Then collect these tagged posts, and train an AI to determine what makes them differ from normal posts? Deployment of such an auto-moderator might then work in tandem with a filter for new posts that requires a certain level of textual sophistication and engagement with the topic being discussed.
ignasheahy@reddit
I agree - https://heahy.com (there is still accounts, just created automatically)
Toothless_NEO@reddit
Would be overrun by bots and trolls the moment it started to gain traction.
CrispyDave@reddit
Considering how many bots are on Reddit I suspect anyone who started gaining traffic with a no account system would be overrun with them before the humans even got a chance.
CyberBerserk@reddit
Isn’t traffic good for business?
l0st1nP4r4d1ce@reddit
That's what happened to digg. The last update was swamped with bot account in hours.
JohnRogan1234@reddit (OP)
Yes, I’m surprised how many bots are on social media these days…
7grims@reddit
Surprising for these type of things, the answer is usually both.
Allowing regular users to create their account cause they like the site and to mark their online identity.
And also allowing anyone to post without an account, rather then loosing a comment/post cause they couldn't bother signing in. And also theres always the ones that prefer to be anonimous.
JohnRogan1234@reddit (OP)
Yes, we chose the latter at first.