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> "Walmart doesn't want the world to have mom and pop shops. ... That may not be their stated goal (or it may be, I don't know). But aren't corporate structure

> "Walmart doesn't want the world to have mom and pop shops. ... That may not be their stated goal (or it may be, I don't know). But aren't corporate structures pushing them to continuously grow? Can they truly bring new money into the economy, or will their growth be at the expense of another company's revenue? Maybe on Monday, they pull one over on another big chain, on Tuesday, they end up hurting a mom and pop shop. > make (Twitter, Medium, Youtube, Facebook, etc) more valuable These companies may also not have a stated goal of destroying the distributed blogging ecosystem (or maybe they do), but wouldn't them driving for their own growth not have the same (potential) result? Isn't this the same thing Uber does to taxis? Amazon to book stores? (Oh, wow, the Amazon example hits close to the Walmart example, now doesn't it?)

DoreenMichele 6y ago
I do a lot of blogging and some of my blog posts have made the front page of Hacker News. And I'm enormously frustrated that they seem to not get shared by anyone but me on any other social media platforms and I'm enormously frustrated by what looks to me like classism, sexism, etc holding me back. This is a problem space I have thought a lot about and I don't agree with you. Frankly, I am not sure I can make use of r/hnblogs. I've suggested the moderator of it should determine a posting frequency that's acceptable and was told they don't expect to need such a guideline and I have no desire to become the de facto "test case" trying to determine what the word "occasionally" means to them and end up banned and blah blah blah. I don't need more drama. My expectation is the very platform under discussion here intended to solve this problem probably won't solve my problem. And I halfway expect to write a blog post somewhere detailing why this is likely to be drama waiting to happen for me no matter how I handle it. So while my life generally makes me feel like spitting nails, I sincerely do not agree with your world view that everyone is simply up to something nefarious all the time. I've met a few people like that in my life, but most people honest to god aren't intentionally shitting all over me. Most don't even realize that their rules or expectations or whatever end up being problematic for me personally while often I am, theoretically, the exact kind of person they are supposedly hoping to solve a problem for.
- mrmonkeyman 6y ago
  There's a lot of frustration in there.

DoreenMichele 6y ago

I do a lot of blogging and some of my blog posts have made the front page of Hacker News. And I'm enormously frustrated that they seem to not get shared by anyone but me on any other social media platforms and I'm enormously frustrated by what looks to me like classism, sexism, etc holding me back. This is a problem space I have thought a lot about and I don't agree with you. Frankly, I am not sure I can make use of r/hnblogs. I've suggested the moderator of it should determine a posting frequency that's acceptable and was told they don't expect to need such a guideline and I have no desire to become the de facto "test case" trying to determine what the word "occasionally" means to them and end up banned and blah blah blah. I don't need more drama. My expectation is the very platform under discussion here intended to solve this problem probably won't solve my problem. And I halfway expect to write a blog post somewhere detailing why this is likely to be drama waiting to happen for me no matter how I handle it. So while my life generally makes me feel like spitting nails, I sincerely do not agree with your world view that everyone is simply up to something nefarious all the time. I've met a few people like that in my life, but most people honest to god aren't intentionally shitting all over me. Most don't even realize that their rules or expectations or whatever end up being problematic for me personally while often I am, theoretically, the exact kind of person they are supposedly hoping to solve a problem for.

mrmonkeyman 6y ago
There's a lot of frustration in there.