Recently reading up on things like Mastodon as a replacement for Twitter, and PeerTube as a replacement for Youtube. What about something as a replacement for things like reddit/HN? Is that feasible?
Lemmy is doing this.<p><a href="https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy</a><p>I know of the dev instance and chapo.chat, but I'm sure there are a few others.
Not the fediverse, but I'm working on moving Gurlic's backend to matrix and opening up the code. Which means people should be able to host their own matrix server and run a Gurlic instance. Still a heavy WIP though.<p>I don't see why it wouldn't work. Matrix is a solid protocol to work with. The only thing I want to be careful about is ensuring that the UI has none of the weirdness usually found in decentralized apps.
Usenet (via NNTP) was pretty widespread at one point, and is akin to a federated/distributed Reddit. So I don't see why it couldn't <i>technically</i> work now. But you have to find a way to drive up adoption to hit a sufficient level of users and hosts.