Fediverse

Hosting a forum costs money, and we ain't got that

Well written, interesting article.

Really getting momentum from Reddit will be tough though. Our main advantage is that we have the rest of the Fediverse as a potential user base, and existing forum apps that also activate apub; reducing network effects. If the Fediverse has momentum, so has the threadiverse.

I'm still trying to figure out why I left FidoNet.

Reddit's vote-sorted and nested comments were so goddamn refreshing compared to flat forums. So was the lack of stupid little icons cluttering every post... until emojis fucked that forever by adding color to plain text.

It stayed good (for a certain value of good) for a long time, because it was fairly difficult to exploit and absurdly difficult to monetize. Even the site's surviving founders just gave up and sold it off. Steve-o stumbled into a decent thing with people paying for little badges on other people's posts, but apparently that wasn't good enough, so he tried hocking an entire community.

ah yes, the age old tale of "the internet sucks and people are stupid"

If you've ever tried hosting a web based solution you'll know exactly what i mean. The entirety of web hosting is a disaster. The entire mountain of web code is a nightmare, and the collection of website based frameworks do nothing more than burn electricity and man hours to create a fucking button on a screen.

as for discord, i haven't puzzled that one out yet, i don't understand. Probably lazy developers and the community aspect, it's a forum, but free, and worse. And now you can shitpost with random people you don't even know!

Personally, i believe that enshittifcation is an inevitability. You put somebody in a room with something, and when you take them out, that thing will somehow have gotten more complex, and thus probably worse.