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> the internet was being built around non-fiction I guess you don't tread the same internet waters. https://www.royalroad.com/home https://www.royalroad.com/h
by arkh 4mo ago
> the internet was being built around non-fiction
I guess you don't tread the same internet waters.
https://www.royalroad.com/home https://www.royalroad.com/home https://archiveofourown.org/ https://archiveofourown.org/ and the good old link rings like https://topwebfiction.com/ https://topwebfiction.com/
- samuelcole 4mo agoi know, i'm being a bit emotional here, ha i'm mostly reacting to the default thing that people scroll are reddit, facebook, instagram, ahem hn which are all non-fiction... i wanted to build something easy to scroll in line at the grocery store that was fiction
- pasc1878 4mo agoMany items on those are fiction. Some even intentionally so.
- d4mi3n 4mo agoI think the dissonance you’re running into here is that places like Reddit are not monolithic. Saying Reddit, basically a very large collection of user submitted writing, is _entirely_ non-fiction is not correct and ignores years of short stories, web serials, fanfiction, role playing, story telling, and all manner of creative fictional writing. I’d wager to say the bulk of such work on the internet exists under the Reddit umbrella, or is at a minimum cross-posted there.
- FeepingCreature 4mo agohttps://fanfiction.net/ https://fanfiction.net/ https://forums.spacebattles.com/ https://forums.spacebattles.com/ https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ https://questden.org/ https://questden.org/ and of course usenet before it. the internet was always built around fiction.
- vunderba 4mo agoWattpads also been around for nearly 20 years as well.
- storywatch 4mo agoThey went full corporate. Naver (Korean manhwa conglomerate) bought them.
- storywatch 4mo agoYou forgot questionable questing https://forum.questionablequesting.com/ https://forum.questionablequesting.com/
- FeepingCreature 4mo agoI mean I didn't want to link the pornfic site lol. I didn't link asstr either.
- storywatch 4mo agoQuestionable questing came out of SpaceBattles/Sufficient Velocity during one of their schisms.
- FeepingCreature 4mo agoYeah from a perspective of grouping it definitely belongs in the SB/SV/QQ list. From a perspective of should I link unsuspecting people to a site with a SFW section that can be described as 'vestigial', or maybe 'decorative', I thought "better not." :)
- storywatch 3mo agoGive https://storywatch.org https://storywatch.org a try...I am trying to recreate some of the old school web fiction link rings.
- paxys 4mo agoAlso LinkedIn, Reddit, most Substack, large chunks of HN…
- storywatch 4mo agoThese days Patreon is another big platform