@quephird Hmm, I think what analysis like that misses, is that early DA only was possible by the risk tolerance of the late dot com bubble.It's extremely costly to run a "universal" site like that, which was why hobbyist-run sites before and since have a narrow focus, and often parochial communities.Cohost in some ways was an attempt to do a "universal" site, but that conflicted with the goals of also having a community space geared towards the founders and their friends, which was based in nostalgia for things like early LiveJournal, tumblr, and DA. I think the same tension is in play here, we're trying to have in some ways a "universal" network, but most of the nodes are strongly community-based and supported.Pre-Musk Twitter was headed in the same direction as modern DA or Reddit, all its financial incentives were towards jettisoning their least monetizable communities in favor of their most monetizable ones, hence why it was a fluke of capitalism that universal sites existed in the first place.
undefined
Social Forum federato con il resto del mondo. Non contano le istanze, contano le persone
