Hey guys, so I’ve been working on a minimal, text-based Reddit alternative for the past few months, and I think it’s coming along nicely.
I’m calling it Nooki (name might change in the future). For now, it’s text-only posts. This could change if it takes off and people want to share images or other media.
It has most of the basic features of Reddit, and I’d love to get your feedback on the UI and any features you’d like to see added.
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It’s just a bit od that you are announcing it on another reddit replacement without bothering to make a comparison.
It looks like you just made an account, have you even looked at how Lemmy compares to reddit?
The main point of Lemmy/mbin is to be a federated service, but you are not even mentioning the federation angle in passing. If you are building a centralised service, why? If not, do you plan to adopt activity pub?
I get why it might come across that way. My intention wasn’t to compete with Lemmy or take away from it. Federation is powerful, but it also adds a lot of moving parts. My goal with Nooki is to quickly experiment with the feel of a lightweight, text-first Reddit-style space. If it sticks, I would be very open to adopting federation standards. I’m personally interested in both ActivityPub and AT Protocol.
I 100% agree that federation is hard, but the opposite of federation is fragmentation, which is the death of a social platform.
So why would someone pick Nooki? What does a text-only reddit clone bring too the table?
Is it meant for low resources solution for TUI enthusiasts? To make it easier to circumvent censorship and organise small activist groups?
Right now, Nooki isn’t trying to compete at that federation scale, it’s more of an experiment in minimal, text-first discussion spaces.
The idea is mainly to create a simple, clutter-free environment where people can just post and chat without the extra noise. So for now Nooki is lightweight, minimal, and focused on words first. Whether it grows into something federated or niche-focused is something I’ll explore if people actually enjoy using it.
definitely worth considering optimizing it for use with
- command line text only browsers
- screen readers and other vision accessibility tech
Thank you! Optimizing for screen readers makes total sense, and I hadn’t considered command line text-only browsers before but I will def. look into how this could support them better in the future
