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Do you think harder to do these days because the existing social networks are so deeply entrenched?

• gricardo99 6y ago
  My guess "in person" is harder these days due to COVID-19. A lot of these industry gatherings have either been cancelled or gone virtual.
• snide 6y ago
  For the most part yes. I think it's also harder because Facebook, YouTube and Reddit pretty much ate up community message boards. My original premise was that any magazine in an Airport had enough community to build a website around. We simply looked for communities that had crappy websites and tried to fill the space. It worked well then, but it wouldn't be a strategy I'd employ now.
• adventured 6y ago
  Niche social networks are easier to get traction with today than at any other time in the past decade. Vast numbers of people are turned off by the vile major networks like Twitter and Facebook, which are overflowing with hate, calls to violence, constant threats, psychotic mobs that will try to ruin your life over basic disagreements, and so on. The future of social media - where the best experiences will be had - is in niche communities that are heavily insular and can easily blockade against terrible users and their terrible posts.
  • NoodleIncident 6y ago
    I agree with all that, but I think people just make a discord server in 10 minutes when they want a niche insular community. The terrible users get blocked out and then go complain about discord server mods on reddit :)