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Reddit came close to becoming decentralized last year

2 pointsby doczoidbergalmost 10 years ago

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paulhauggisalmost 10 years ago
&quot;Each user has an app, the reddit app, which connects to the reddit p2p network. For most users, the app is a normal web app. Each user funds their own app with a small amount of bitcoin. In order to download content&quot;<p>I imagine they also baked in some sort of percentage that Reddit will get on top of the transaction for managing it. It&#x27;s a way of sneaking in a way to make money and I seriously doubt it would have worked.<p>To me, Reddit is pretty much worthless in terms of dollar amount. They copy links from all over the Internet, which pretty much anyone can do.