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> There's never really going to be such a thing as a thriving small social network. Just because you're not on them doesn't mean they don't exist. I wouldn't
by eropple 4y ago
> There's never really going to be such a thing as a thriving small social network.
Just because you're not on them doesn't mean they don't exist.
I wouldn't namedrop the ones I like here because I like them the way they are, but consider: there are so many 100-200 member Discords with consistent and vibrant communities.
They're not trying to become hypermassive cash engines, but that's okay and even good. That's a grim way to exist.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago> there are so many 100-200 member Discords with consistent and vibrant communities Slack has a free tier too. 90-days of history only, is as much a feature as it is a bug. Idle "off-the record" talk with current and/or ex colleagues in a bar after work isn't recorded indefinitely, why should the online equivalent?
- beardog 4y agoTo have actual off the record, you need disappearing messages (and trust for your colleagues) like in Signal. Not simply paywalled messages.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoOh sure, the message history past 90 days is safe only from casual inquiry, not a determined adversary. it's like the first kind of cryptography not the second (1) I'll take suggestions for a better (easy, cheap or free, functional, familiar) small community platform? 1) https://libquotes.com/bruce-schneier/quote/lbx8x8g https://libquotes.com/bruce-schneier/quote/lbx8x8g
- eropple 4y agoIt isn't "90 days of history". It's 90 days of history you can see. Slack retains it indefinitely.
- cal85 4y agoI know the small ones exist, and I use many, they’re often much better than Twitter for specialist interests (HN is just one example). But I also scroll through Twitter daily, for something the small ones can’t provide: it’s the big one where ‘everyone’ is.