Is there an ActivityPub or similarly decentralized alternative? I don't want to get invested in reddit only for them to shut down their API (it'll happen, always does) and force me to use their garbage mobile client.
Mastodon is an alternative to Twitter.
The Join Mastodon website [https://joinmastodon.org/] has a good introduction.
Mastodon is not currently an alternative to Reddit though, but I think it could be, if it got significant contributions towards forum functionality. Perhaps by treating each tag, or each of a certain type of tag, as an individual forum. A 'Trunk'?
On the other hand, Discourse [https://www.discourse.org/about] might be a better candidate for an alternative, in some ways. With Discourse though each "Reddit" would be a Discourse board on a specific server. To do a true Reddit alternative you'd need to plug individual Discourse servers into a P2P mesh.
Ideally I'd like to see a Discourse-like or Reddit-like UI on top of a Mastodon back-end (which would be using ActivityPub).
If you want to work on this as well please let me know and maybe we can work together on it (@BillBarnhill on Mastodon.technology or Twitter).
