[–] nathanwblair [S] ago
@wecanhelp sorry how do we know when voat changes their source code? thought it was the same system as (open source) reddit, who changed theirs without us knowing
also i agree about the decentralized nature of riot making it better, and that's why i'm writing a distributed version of Discord (which i prefer) that's scheduled to have a working version in ~14 days
[–] nathanwblair [S] ago (edited ago)
@wecanhelp so the discord is temporary either way, we can move to riot if we get taken down before then, since all info is submitted to voat we won't have lost info
[–] wecanhelp [M] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
We can watch the repository on GitHub, the same as in Reddit's case. I'm not sure about your reference of Reddit changing code without the community knowing it. Was it due to some components turning out to be closed-source, or rather a human error with the changes being visible on GitHub but the community not noticing?
I don't want to discourage your work at all, but it is highly undesirable for our people to migrate to a freshly baked software that has no community peer-reviewing it and will inherently have a lot of bugs and vulnerabilities waiting to eventually be discovered and treated. Reinventing the wheel is not necessarily the good strategy.
[–] nathanwblair [S] ago
my "discord replacement" decentralizes at a https-level, there's not enough (new) code involved to have a lot of vulnerabilities, you'll see. it's definitely be superior & less vunerable than v/pizzagatewhatever (which it replaces) from the get-go