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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28930199

A bit of an effortpost :)

Please do crosspost in more fitting communities if you think of any

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[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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

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[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because we prefer to sign up to one thing that combines all our interests to signing up to dozens of different forums

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

This is why we have SSO (why on Earth are these always the proprietary ones by default) & decentralized identities such as those on ActivityPub

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