Fuddit: Social Porn Tries Again

June 25, 2008
DASHIELL

As you probably know, Reddit is a social 2.0 news web aggregation community link thingie place where people submit links and then argue about how dumb you are. Because a lot of people want to build their own web empire without even knowing how to program their VCR, Reddit recently decided to give them a head start by making their code open source. That means anyone can take the Reddit system, bend and shape it any way they like, and start their own custom version of the service. Naturally, it took about two minutes for someone to take that code and turn it into a porn site. So now we have yet another porn link collector--one that instead of banning everything remotely naughty like Digg does will likely soon be overrun by spam, fake Britney Spears sex tapes, and annoying affiliate sites that everyone already saw back in 2002. In fact, it's a lot like ... Reddit, which already has a NSFW channel buried deep within its own website! Or perhaps it will actually become useful. You never can tell with these things.