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Roll Your Own Reddit
January 22, 2008 |
Reddit announced some new features today. Most importantly, they will soon give you the opportunity to run your own reddit:
You will be able to make three kinds of reddits: public, restricted, and private. A public reddit is just like the current reddits: anyone can view and submit to them. A restricted reddit allows anyone to view the content, but only invited members may submit, comment, or vote. A private reddit is like a restricted reddit, but with the additional restriction that only members can view the content as well. Moderators of a reddit will be able to remove posts and ban users from their reddits.
As MG Siegler points out, that’s exactly what Dave Winter was talking about a while back: everybody can run his/her own digg/reddit/social news site.
Right now. the new features are in closed beta, but will open up in about a week.
This is potentially a big thing, but it also comes with some issues.
When Dave Winer floated the idea originally, I was skeptical, because it seems that for a Digg/reddit like site to work, you do need a certain amount of active participants. By starting a new site under the umbrella of reddit or Digg, that might become a non-issue, depending on how it is realized.
Also, while running your own reddit/Digg might sound cool at first, it might also just become a bookmarking site without much user-interaction pretty quickly.
As for now, I am a ReadBurner convert and not really looking for yet another new social news site (besides Steve Gillmor’s NewsGang project, which has gotten little attention, but is actually quite interesting)
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