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> everything seems to have coalescened (socially speaking) into twitter and facebook. And Reddit and Discord. It is a monumentally difficult task to create a
by iamacyborg 5y ago
> everything seems to have coalescened (socially speaking) into twitter and facebook.
And Reddit and Discord.
It is a monumentally difficult task to create a forum these days, from a social PoV.
- rnd0 5y ago>It is a monumentally difficult task to create a forum these days, from a social PoV. and legal, and probably technical PoV as well; yes. The large platforms have sucked all of the oxygen out of the room, and have gained what I feel is an unhealthy control of what can and cannot be said. I have no idea what can be done to fix the situation; but none the less, there it is.
- iamacyborg 5y agoFrom a technical perspective, forum software is easy enough to use.
- rnd0 5y agoA technical perspective also includes mitigating denial of service attacks and other security issues, including scaling.