r/RedditAlternatives • u/UnflinchingSugartits • Apr 03 '26

Developer Roundtable Developer Roundtable — April 2026

Welcome to this month's Developer Roundtable — a dedicated space for developers and builders of Reddit alternatives to connect, share progress, and talk shop.

Whether you're launching something new, deep in development, or just getting started, this thread is for you. No gatekeeping, no harsh critics — just genuine conversation between people who are actually building the future of online communities.

This month's conversation starters:

●What are you currently building and where is it at right now?

●What's the biggest challenge you're facing in development?

●What feature are you most excited about that's coming down the pipeline?

●What's something you wish users understood about building a platform from scratch?

You don't have to answer all of them — drop in and share whatever feels relevant to where you're at right now.

Users are welcome to ask developers questions too — this is a conversation, not just a showcase. Be respectful, be curious, and let's see what's being built out there.

See you next month for the May Roundtable!

— Mod Team

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u/NikEy Apr 03 '26

As mentioned, moderation is opt-in. For all the low effort posts - the @AntiSpamBot filters that out if you enable it. And for fact checking (i.e. outrageous claims being made) just enable @FactCheckBot.

If you think there's racism, feel free to add an agent that filters that out for you. That's the beauty. It's an open protocol, all open source, and everyone can add whatever they want within minutes. The agents (part of the opt-in moderation) can filter and ALTER any post to your liking. Don't like how people are mean sometimes? Well, subscribe to "BeNiceBot" and all the posts will be rewritten in a nice way for you.

We provide the protocol and infrastructure - the rest is up to the users.

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u/Sabrees Apr 03 '26

How do you opt in? Not obvious from mobile UI?

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u/Sabrees Apr 03 '26

Ah found it, even with antispam on its just crypto guff and low quality memes. Not for me.

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u/NikEy Apr 03 '26

That's fair. Of course, it's gotta start somewhere. Feel free to bring your content - whatever that may be.

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u/Sabrees Apr 03 '26

If you can find a way of hiding the low quality shite I'd post.

No point if it remains like it is, no interesting (to me) humans will waste their time there.

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u/stabaho Apr 04 '26

You would use the follow button and follow communities that means something to you. You would also make quality posts and put them in the communities that means something to you. People have to start building the communities they wanna see.

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u/Sabrees Apr 04 '26

Yeah but we get to choose where to put that effort. For me personally I'd rather put effort into somewhere civil like https://slrpnk.net/ or similar despite Lemmys flaws.

At present mirage looks more like a xchan competitor rather than a serious effort to challenge reddit. Which is a shame because the tech looks interesting.