What does Sup Forums think of upcoming social media / forums /BBS sites?
Is diaspora* as overrated as it looks?
Are Tor sites the fun ones?
Next Major Forum / Social Network
Aaron Sanchez
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Liam Hernandez
I don't really like this idea of "social medias" and one website to group everyone.
I would rather prefer providing free tools (in both ways) to people so they can use them to create their own community (voice chat, irc, file sharing, tools to meet up etc.)
Jayden Fisher
If Steemit got traction, it would be pretty fucking lit.
Robert Gonzalez
seems reddit tier shit desu senpai
Daniel Stewart
Yeah just looked that up. Seems way too expensive to function.
I think paying / donations for servers makes sense but beyond that monetization seems like a quick way to mess things up
Luke Ward
It's an open and censorship free platform that leverages blockchain cryptocurrency buzzwors technology
It's not expensive at all
Xavier Lewis
i really like the idea of zeronet but from what i've seen right now it seems like a fragmented clusterfuck of a community
Landon Jenkins
I feel like that's a big issue. Sup Forums / plebbit / FB etc had perfect timing of more people online
Fledgling sites have a hard time building an attractive community now
Sebastian Wilson
redbull me on zeronet
Aiden Morris
Whatever the idea of a social network. I think there are two things to consider :
1- the social media don't bring new (interesting) things compared to what exists, therefore normies won't use it
2- not enough people, no marketing is done.
3- things like diaspora targets freetards, people that are intelligent enought to understand issues regarding privacy. They are also smart enought to not use social media.
And I see more Sup Forums as a forum where you can shitpost than a social media
Charles Thomas
i disagree
new platforms are still capable of being very successful
i think the problem is that grassroots platforms lack resources to compete with major platforms
people use new stuff like discord because frankly they are much more developed than open-source efforts. shitloads of VC funding goes into UX and functionality and marketing that makes it very hard for an open-source platform to compete.
Jayden Reed
That's fair. It seems like death-by-monetization is a looming factor for major online tools, although I suppose that's generalizable for any commercial endeavour tho
Aaron Flores
zeronet is not a social media technically but it's something that allows people to host decentralized platforms
it's essentially torrenting but instead of seeding solely files, you seed platform code and platform data
if people like your platform/website/whatever then they can seed it, making it more reliable and faster to other peers
it's a cool idea but it's still very early on in development, give it a try
Henry Carter
Facebook was a regression when compared to Myspace. Myspace had more features, and was equally capable. I think the biggest confounding factor is accessibility more than expandability or features. I don't suspect people would be willing to compromise FB's featureset though. You have to streamline it so Grandma can use it, but still have self-moderated community with a wide set of tools.
Gavin Watson
Those are fair points
A big reason I posted is because I see the dilution of plebbit and the Chans and especially as time goes on
I was really hoping that decentralized networks would be promising but at this rate the Chans and Tor forums seem a lot more interesting
Bentley Bell
That shit is a meme. Next winners are going to follow the same formula but promise to protect your privacy and use chronological sorting.
Carter Rodriguez
yeah
there's still time tho, decentralized tech is still relatively bleeding edge. i expect more in the future
Dominic Sanchez
Thanks for reminding me about steemit, just withdrew $700 that I made from uploading 4 of my articles on there lmao
Aiden Diaz
((((((diaspora))))))
Leo Rogers
Holy shit diaspora still exists?
Jaxson Jenkins
>I would rather prefer providing free tools (in both ways) to people so they can use them to create their own community (voice chat, irc, file sharing, tools to meet up etc.)
That requires a level of computer expertise that a lot of people weren't and still don't seem to be taught in school these days even though they should be.
Cooper Powell
>Tor forums
Only if you're a pedo.
Jason Ross
Minds will be the next "big thing"
Ayden Jenkins
Honestly i really like minds.
The creators are really approachable.
It is technically not private but really if you want privacy then you shouldn't use social media anyway.
Luke Smith
8 years ago I thought Diaspora wouldn't go anywhere and I was completely right!
Tyler Brooks
Social media can be anonymous and hide your identity.
Alexander Adams
Lmao i remember this being shilled like 6 years ago
Luke Hughes
Mastodon is gaining traction and it will surpass twitter soon. As for BBS they fill a niche, just look at how many chinese use BBS.
Jason Walker
The fact that people make money by predictively upvoting or posting popular content ensures the quality of visible content will always be the lowest possible, AND the only way to make it profitable in the sense that steemit wants it to be is for users to post craptastic clickbait.
Colton Davis
That niche being "people who didn't keep up with the times", that's pretty much it. That's not really a niche.
Jack Butler
Current web is a disaster, me might as well start again.
Charles Martin
I use diaspora (not for anything serious thou) since some Sup Forumsentooman create a pod back then.
The original pod was left for dead by its creator, an other guy made a new pod at podricing.pw
Josiah Garcia
Agreed. Problem is multifold: all available competing platforms have their cons and pros, none are fully capable of everything (maidsafe never ever). Regardless, lack of traction (and consolidation). Moreover, open problems like safe distributed computing and storage. Finally, FUD from people repeating FUD from governments that tried to arrest people for having encrypted CP which they couldn't decrypt on account of the fact it was part of e.g. freenet and they had never accessed it.
One particular problem is that everyone's trying to redesign upper layers of the network stack with current-web compatibility in mind when that is inherently a massive mistake. Sites shouldn't broadcast client-side logic. Clients should handle client-side logic in a site-agnostic way based on style and data delivered by the site.
Dominic Barnes
awful name
Nathan Hall
>Mastodon
You mean the fork of the decade old social network gnu social ?
The fork of gnu social who got massively shilled by fake news journalist ?
>mashable.com
The fork of gnu social who datamines it's users ?
>mastodon.social
The fork of gnu social made by a tyrannical antifa furie dev ?
>community.highlandarrow.com
>mastodon.social
The fork who DDOS gnu social instances multiple times ?
social.heldscal.la
The fork that didn't respect RFCs so that gnu social devs couldn't know how to adapt their instances ?
community.highlandarrow.com
The fork that is actually using blocklist made by a Microsoft employee ?
>github.com
>github.com
The Microsoft employee who is also a W3C member ?
>github.com
And by coincidence the original protocol of gnusocial ostatus is being replaced and accepted at W3C by another one which does not make things better.
I can fucking go one on this subject.
The only reason that mastodon is more than a small fork made by a sjw faggot is that some corp or gov nigger thought that it could be a menace and shilled the worst piece of code maintained by a greedy patreon communist who has no morales and then extend that control with other drones around so that the network gradually turns into another twitter.
It's just another way of control if you want people to not get trapped by it they need to use a gnu social instance and federate normally.