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0 pointsiamacyborg4y ago0 comments

> everything seems to have coalescened (socially speaking) into twitter and facebook.

And Reddit and Discord.

It is a monumentally difficult task to create a forum these days, from a social PoV.

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rnd04y ago

>It is a monumentally difficult task to create a forum these days, from a social PoV.

and legal, and probably technical PoV as well; yes.

The large platforms have sucked all of the oxygen out of the room, and have gained what I feel is an unhealthy control of what can and cannot be said.

I have no idea what can be done to fix the situation; but none the less, there it is.

iamacyborgOP4y ago

From a technical perspective, forum software is easy enough to use.

rnd04y ago

A technical perspective also includes mitigating denial of service attacks and other security issues, including scaling.

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0 pointsiamacyborg4y ago0 comments

> everything seems to have coalescened (socially speaking) into twitter and facebook.

And Reddit and Discord.

It is a monumentally difficult task to create a forum these days, from a social PoV.

0 comments

rnd04y ago

>It is a monumentally difficult task to create a forum these days, from a social PoV.

and legal, and probably technical PoV as well; yes.

The large platforms have sucked all of the oxygen out of the room, and have gained what I feel is an unhealthy control of what can and cannot be said.

I have no idea what can be done to fix the situation; but none the less, there it is.

iamacyborgOP4y ago

From a technical perspective, forum software is easy enough to use.

rnd04y ago

A technical perspective also includes mitigating denial of service attacks and other security issues, including scaling.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse