points by lukan 2 days ago | 0 comments
But you do realise your advice is ignored by roughly 99.9% of people who use FB and co. and this is still where the people are?
Also, what real choices of owned plattforms besides old school forums are there?
[–] Scaled 2 days ago
[–] lukan 2 days ago
Oh I agree in general, I don't have FB. And discourse forum is probably what I would have tried too, but can it really scale to millions of active users? The largest I know are some linux forums, but they are way smaller.
[–] Scaled 2 days ago
Oh yes, it's used by Roblox, Blizzard, Unity, Epic, etc. Often the big companies remove the branding, but it's Discourse under the hood.
[–] bigyabai 2 days ago
> what real choices of owned plattforms besides old school forums are there?
ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr, to name a few.
[–] lukan 2 days ago
And what thriving communities build up on those protocols?
[–] bigyabai 2 days ago
Close-knit ones, the sort that don't trade principles for outreach.
Bully on me for expecting narcissists to grow a spine.
And you might be impressed how far forums have come. Open source Discourse forum now has built-in Discord like voice and video chat, along with real time text posts. (It also powers some extremely large communities with millions of users.)