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It's a cycle. The internet started with usenet and specific interest newsgroups and niche forums a la phpbb. Then the wide open of social media. Now back to spe
by PLenz 2y ago
It's a cycle. The internet started with usenet and specific interest newsgroups and niche forums a la phpbb. Then the wide open of social media. Now back to specific again. A generation from now it will shift again.
- ethanol-brain 2y agoI have been using the internet since 1995, and I have yet to see the cycle. From where I sit, it has been more of just a steady trend toward compartmentalization and aggregation. (Not to say that there aren't a large number of great projects off the main path.)
- supriyo-biswas 2y agoNetwork effects, monopolization, a lack of diverse payment models on the internet, and reduced interest in system administration have primarily lead to the centralization of communities on a few platforms, which has lead us to this problem. If you could somehow solve 2, 3 and 4, I assume there'd be many thriving topical communities in parallel, just like the forums of yore that you speak of.
- dotancohen 2y ago> It's a cycle Strava is for running, too. Lrf, guvf vf n cha.
- EarlKing 2y ago> Lrf, guvf vf n cha. And here with the birth of broadband I thought we'd moved past the age of line noise.
- dotancohen 2y ago$ echo Lrf, guvf vf n cha. | rot13 Yes, this is a pun.