Yeah. I’m not sure that we’ll ever shake that urge for the Powerful Monoplatform when you can just log into any of the contenders and within one minute in your own feed (to say nothing of a For You equivalent) see a bunch of people yearning hungrily for hegemonic agenda-setting power for [Platform].
Aspiring monoplatforms will cancel each other out like how you can start a fire to prevent the spread of a different wildfire
Forums didn’t really have that type of ambition; partly because it would’ve never occurred to them but we’ve eaten of the forbidden fruit and now have a knowledge of Sin
going the way of reddit seems like a pretty good outcome at this point
that's so sad
easiest way also to make it less effective for some kind of Hearst figure buying it then steering a platform towards their ideological outcomes
Niche forums were disabused of that notion 15-20 years ago because they couldn’t convert eyeballs and posts into product buying $.