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it's not "another thing", it means that your community forum lives on reddit (or whoever's) sufferance, and is subject to some corporation's capricious and arbi
by zem 2mo ago
it's not "another thing", it means that your community forum lives on reddit (or whoever's) sufferance, and is subject to some corporation's capricious and arbitrary whims.
this comment brings up a good concrete example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293553
- Razengan 2mo agoThis is a better comment on the same page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296018 Basically: "everyone has a different idea about what the Old Web™ was depending on when they first started using the internet, and when the community they liked was discontinued or changed"
- zem 2mo agothat's a good comment for sure, but it doesn't address what I was talking about - specifically, in the "old internet" it was a lot commoner for a community to own its online spaces, usually by virtue of having one or two technically minded members who volunteered to run the infrastructure, and thanks to a lot of the required software being open source. sure, it's nice that anyone can just create a subreddit or facebook group now with no technical knowledge required, but there are definite ways in which living in someone else's space shapes your experience for the worse.