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I'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.
I'd love an invite if you'd be willing to share. You can contact me at at gmail.
I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.
Sometimes 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 servic…
I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.
Outside. There's even a nice blue ceiling (or, for British users, a nice grey ceiling)
I still enjoy twitter, I find its death greatly exaggerated.
I must be doing Twitter wrong because it seems like you get very little discussion worth reading and it's too hard to find gems in a thousand reply thread. Many times even my feed has about only two or three posts worth reading. It's about as useful as reading YouTube comments.
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We are already doing it. We are becoming the old dudes making fun of the next generation. Right on time. Better to say things like: Young people are too idealistic or have a different sense of humor. They learn from us, not the other way around.
I don't want to make fun of them, I just have no desire to socialize with them. I frankly think it's weirder to be a man in his 40's who wants to spend their digital day with 17 year olds.
Socrates might have been talking to adults, but students were watching.
Whilst there it not much content right now, you can experience first hand how the old communities you had on Reddit are being recreated there. It’s kind of fascinating to watch and you also slowly realze that maybe it might be actually a great thing if the content is not going owned by any single company and that what happened with reddit could never happen here. But who knows?
Someone 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.