I find it interesting that most discussion forums have essentially the same data model, but just a different UI and moderation. Think: Reddit, HN, Twitter, Dis

I find it interesting that most discussion forums have essentially the same data model, but just a different UI and moderation. Think: Reddit, HN, Twitter, Discord, TikTok, Insta, Signal/Whatsapp/Telegram/Messenger. I feel like Reddit is a superset of most though although they suck at chat. Discord is great at chat, but their forum functionality is weak. All of HN could be implemented as a single sub-reddit for example. I would much rather use HN on the Reddit UI too. And Twitter also. The most important thing that trumps all is always the community. I've often thought a fun experiment would be to create a simple clone of the UI of Reddit, HN, Twitter, Discord, and then show each of those feeds inside the UI of each other.