So where are we all supposed to go now?
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So where are we all supposed to go now?
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Re: So where are we all supposed to go now?
#2Having been a vigorous Discord user for years:
Discord sucks.
Its so time inefficient (yet engaging) that I had to delete the apps from my phone and desktop for my own sake. And don't even get me started on the difficulty of actually finding niche information.
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#3I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.
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#4I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.
I could say the same about reddit except for the "enjoy" part. I imagine that in a while people will give up on finding alternatives and go back to reddit. Unless reddit keeps doing more stupid stuff it's not going away anytime soon.
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#5Someone maintains a list on Gist,
https://gist.github.com/zpangwin/8be46c8314d3288504f13863d9f...
It's quite a bit of federated stuff in there, but some "decent" links too.
The problem is that I can spin up a phpBB instance and create an IRC channel, but are you going to come? It's a rhetorical question.
For it to even work there needs to be a cause, otherwise you're sitting like ducks waiting for some cool shit to happen. And the new generation has no idea what those two social platforms even are... good luck onboarding a zoomer on a phpBB forum to "socialize".
But I'd love to see where else people are hanging out outside of HN, maybe there are some hidden gems out there that I could consider joining. Fediverse/Discord/Slack are a no go for me, don't enjoy them at all.
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#6Outside. There's even a nice blue ceiling (or, for British users, a nice grey ceiling)
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#7Someone maintains a list on Gist, https://gist.github.com/zpangwin/8be46c8314d3288504f13863d9f... It's quite a bit of federated stuff in there, but some "decent" links too. The problem is that I can spin up a phpBB instance and create an IRC channel, but are you going to come? It's a rhetorical question. For it to even work there needs to be a cause, otherwise you're sitting like ducks waiting for some cool shit to h…
To be honest, the ability to effortlessly repel Zoomers strikes me as a feature, not a bug.
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#8Someone maintains a list on Gist, https://gist.github.com/zpangwin/8be46c8314d3288504f13863d9f... It's quite a bit of federated stuff in there, but some "decent" links too. The problem is that I can spin up a phpBB instance and create an IRC channel, but are you going to come? It's a rhetorical question. For it to even work there needs to be a cause, otherwise you're sitting like ducks waiting for some cool shit to h…
Or why not create communities on GitHub itself?
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#9I've been enjoying Metafilter again after many years, and also Tildes. There are well established forums for my interests that were always bigger than they were on reddit. I have some Tildes invites if anyone wants them.
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#10Sometimes I think about Gravatar. Like it was such a simple concept but made sense and saw huge adoption.
It seems like the main bottleneck all new platforms face is getting people to sign up. That’s why OAuth is so popular.
It makes me wonder if Gravatar had not been acquired and had expanded into being a service where the whole point is that you have an account that you can expand and withdrawal from various services, it would have been so much better positioned than more recent attempts or what became OAuth.