Hackerspring is a decentralized social content aggregator. I'm helping out with it and am looking for alpha testers! Sign up at http://hackerspring.com
HackerSpring is a content aggregation platform hosted on a distributed network.
All content is stored on IPFS in a distributed data structure. The protocol has no central point of coordination. Nodes broadcast their additions to the network to each other in realtime. Anyone is free to run their own network node if they don't want to use ours.
Interesting idea. Some questions: 1. Who's running this site? The domain was registered privately, and fair enough, but I'd like to know who's in charge. 2. Who are your targeted userbase? In other words, are you looking for tech savvy, a particular ideology, etc.? 3. Free speech as a goal is all well and good, but the vague statement about the end about they "must adhere to global rules, regulations and laws" could mean a lot. Reddit has struggled significantly (and clumsily) with how to deal with this. Global rules are different, so whose apply? How do we predict what is and isn't allowed, or what we might be exposed to?
The boss of the Project is Shane Allen, and he works for London Trust Media. (LTM owns a few things, including Private Internet Access, the VPN provider) The initial targeted userbase is those who are willing to put in effort; content creators and curators especially. beyond that there is no specific target though I suspect with the way our platform is designed will most interest those who believe in free speech and are interested in technology, but we hope to not be limited to that scope. We host our platform in the US jurisdiction and will police it as such, and anyone running their own node must police theirs according to their local laws.
Thanks for the answers. A couple follow-up questions, if I may: First, what's your funding source? Is it intended to be entirely donation-based, largesse-based, or something else? Second, do you have a privacy or other policy? (And I'll second FirebrandRoaring's concern about using Google Forms.)
You're not that far off, actually. I consider us similar to a modern take on usenet/NNTP. The UX should be a bit cleaner than those things, but I'm function, similar.
Do you have any preview available whatsoever? I've become interested in checking the UX claim, but I don't want to sign up to yet another service I may have no use for. Also: Google Forms for sign-up request. What's that about? Is it even alpha stage if your sign-up forms are crutch-third-party?