The death(?) of Twitter and decline of Reddit at the exact same time is interesting. I don't remember a disruption of that magnitude/speed on the old internet, not to speak of the poor state of the rest of the open internet.
Sorta feels like a huge opportunity to be honest. I don’t find the silos and segmentation of the “new federated” places is the solution. Honestly it just feels like openBB with a new framework.
I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's like a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid taking the best features of each platform and combining them. One key aspect is we have non-intrusive monetization methods baked into each community where the revenue primarily goes to the community owners. The monetization stuff is completely optional and disabled by default, however it feels like the people curating the communities should have the option to be rewarded for the work that they do.
The timing is interesting, but it's kind of impressive that Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc. have lasted as long as they have without going the way of everything that preceded them.
> “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Huffman said. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Redditors said. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to Steve Huffman for free.”
It would be the same if the mod of my favorite sub would open it back up -.-