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Yes I've been looking for the same thing. I created https://zsync.xyz https://zsync.xyz with the goal of serving as a place for high quality discussion of any t

Yes I've been looking for the same thing. I created https://zsync.xyz https://zsync.xyz with the goal of serving as a place for high quality discussion of any topic, but turns out it's pretty difficult to create a community since there's that whole chicken and egg problem. If anyone has any ideas on how to create a community like this, I'd love to hear it. I'm really not a fan of chat rooms other than for casual chats between friends because there's no search engine indexability. I guess in the meantime, I'd say Twitter is probably the best I think. Everyone's on there, and people are incentivized to increase their following. I just wish they'd do away with that 500 character limit since that confines longer form writing to Twitter threads and makes actual dialogue totally impractical.

andai 4y ago
From the dates it looks like even you gave up on your own platform. Don't you know, when reddit started, the admins had a "username" box when they were submitting new posts, so they would type in fake usernames and make it look like the site had a lot of users.
- PaulHoule 4y ago
  If you were starting something like that today you might have GPT-3 write the posts. That's one case where you really might not care if it is right or wrong.
culi 4y ago
I want to make a browser extension that aggregates sites like reddit, hackernews, lobste.rs, and more niche sites like this and hubski Many other extensions have tried the whole "comments on any website" thing but that always runs into the same challenge of the network effect What's needed is an aggregator that lets you see all the comments made on any website your on through all of these already existing communities. I think it would actually end up benefiting smaller sites, especially if they have more of a focus on niche topics
cheeseblubber 4y ago
We're actually working on an open source Google-searchable chat communities https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev. We also support syncing from Slack communities. https://www.linen.dev/s/futureofcoding https://www.linen.dev/s/futureofcoding is a pretty active community with interesting technical discussions.

andai 4y ago

From the dates it looks like even you gave up on your own platform. Don't you know, when reddit started, the admins had a "username" box when they were submitting new posts, so they would type in fake usernames and make it look like the site had a lot of users.

PaulHoule 4y ago
If you were starting something like that today you might have GPT-3 write the posts. That's one case where you really might not care if it is right or wrong.

culi 4y ago

I want to make a browser extension that aggregates sites like reddit, hackernews, lobste.rs, and more niche sites like this and hubski Many other extensions have tried the whole "comments on any website" thing but that always runs into the same challenge of the network effect What's needed is an aggregator that lets you see all the comments made on any website your on through all of these already existing communities. I think it would actually end up benefiting smaller sites, especially if they have more of a focus on niche topics

cheeseblubber 4y ago

We're actually working on an open source Google-searchable chat communities https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev. We also support syncing from Slack communities. https://www.linen.dev/s/futureofcoding https://www.linen.dev/s/futureofcoding is a pretty active community with interesting technical discussions.