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HN being endlessly contrarian is really weird sometimes. You are in real-time witnessing the rebirth of community hosted and run forums. The thing HN has been l
by Spivak 3y ago
HN being endlessly contrarian is really weird sometimes. You are in real-time witnessing the rebirth of community hosted and run forums. The thing HN has been lamenting the death of forever.
This isn't some "migrate from walled garden A to walled garden B", this is the community setting up new-age phpBB except it's federated and interoperates with any and all ActivityPub.
You can subscribe to /r/startrek from your Twitter account. You can add people on Twitter and blogs to your Reddit feed. If this ends up not succeeding I wouldn't gloat because this is the endgame us tech nerds have asked for forever.
- q1w2 3y agoNo central logins, no unified feed of messages and subscriptions, no customized compact view. This just isn't going to fly. I have literally hundreds of subscribed subs on Reddit - I'm not going to a different site for each.
- Spivak 3y agoYes central logins, yes unified feed. How do you think federation works? Click on the "All" to see posts from all different servers. Then click into some comments and see that people are posting from other servers. Your "frontpage" on whatever server you choose to call home is the amalgam of all the content you follow everywhere.
- q1w2 3y agoThe cross-server logins are broken right now.
- remram 3y agoIt's like HN is actually multiple people or something...
- Spivak 3y agoPssh, everyone but me is a bot. Pretending that HN doesn't have a prevailing orthodoxy is naive. And it's disappointing because in this thread the force of comment sections being contrarian is overpowering the force of the news being something that a lot of people in this community have wanted for a long time.
- remram 3y agoThe prevailing orthodoxy will not necessarily emerge within the first hour of a post being created. In a few more hours, the opinion you expect will have appeared, and your comment will make no sense.
- flomo 3y agoJust to be endlessly contrarian: "HN" has always loved reddit. Even during the protests, there was a lot of talk about how wonderful reddit is. If this sort of thing becomes more widespread, their karma points might be seriously devalued!
- wise0wl 3y agoI hope that it will work. I loved the forum days---there was a real sense of community there that does not exist on Reddit except for some very small subs.