Recently its been niche discords. I’ve had a bit of luck being able to find and converse with people behind some popular things.
Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?
#42NNTP, which can be decentralized. I have wrote a NNTP server software, although it may help to implement some other things to go with it, such as: federation with other NNTP services (which might or might not use the same software; the protocol is the same regardless of what software it is using), web interface (I have some requirements, such as requiring the NNTP server information and message ID to be displayed even if scripts/CSS is disabled), email subscriptions (many people prefer mailing lists, and this is a way to make such a thing to work), etc.
Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?
#43Reddit has become a heavily censored website that supports only one political viewpoint. For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned. This goes for large swaths of society in general where people have gone from free speech advocates to raving lunatics ready to censor, ban, cancel, and fire anyone who does not support their views.…
A "free speech" platform is not enough of a value proposition for mainstream users to migrate. The only people who will be incentivized to move will be toxic/fringe/controversial people and their followings. If you want to make a community for those people, go ahead. See gab.com, voat.com, 4chan.org, parler.com etc... All these places are similar to reddit/facebook/twitter but without censorship. However, the whole p…
So I‘ll use my mom as an example. For most of my life I used message boards and chatrooms to get my internet experience. For decades this women had no idea what she was missing out on. Eventually they mainstreamed the stuff I’ve been using for people like her. They go to Reddit now because we used to go to Reddit, they sit on Facebook now because we used to sit on message boards.
The stuff the tech minded people use today will be the stuff people like my mom will use tomorrow. She doesn’t know what she’s missing out on again. So we absolutely have to keep innovating.
Re: Ask HN: What is the next Reddit, for you?
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned. I would suggest that this is not true.
Which statement are you suggesting is not true? That a ban would not happen in response to that assertion?
Yes