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 @BigFoxBoss My point is not longform blogging being not easily digestible. My point is standalone infrastructure being obtuse and not easily interactable without federation, there's no community. As for "everything became social network", well... The first proper social network was Livejournal - there were friend subscriptions in there, as the prominent feature. And it was longform blogging platform, also the first one. So, always has been. 12 comments
@BigFoxBoss But what if your main niche is just you and your homies? It's VERY hard to convince people to register on your website so they could interact with just your and their posts, even if they're your friends. @BigFoxBoss I'm not an imbecile, I know what instant messaging is, and I remember ICQ. I had a 6-digit number. I'm talking strictly about social blogging. Only that. Not other platforms/protocols/whatever. Social networking/social blogging is easy to do when you're on the same website, and nigh impossible to do if you're standalone. Unless there's federation. Then it's not as easy as the same website, but suddenly - it's doable. @BigFoxBoss Centralization around Disqus notwithstanding, yeeah, kinda. It's a crawl compared to what we have with Fedi now, though, when you just click "follow" and boom, subscribed. @drq @iliazeus @mittorn Also, I heard that tumblr is integrating with AP, so they may join fedi, but no further news on that yet still. @BigFoxBoss They've been promising this for quite a while now. |
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Yet Livejournal is not as popular now and is on decline. The latest generation probably doesn't know about it and won't use it ever :blobfoxthink:
Communities sure bounded even without federation protocols. Thematic websites/forums were all you needed. It's just that their time has passed. I know only a few niche hobby communities that have their own hubs which allow to register and host a blog on their account, but these are very damn niche interests that only interest very specific people. It's not there to make a following, it's there to mostly talk to an already bound community.
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Yet Livejournal is not as popular now and is on decline. The latest generation probably doesn't know about it and won't use it ever :blobfoxthink:
Communities sure bounded even without federation protocols. Thematic websites/forums were all you needed. It's just that their time has passed. I know only a few niche hobby communities that have their own hubs which allow to register and host a blog on their account, but these are very damn niche interests that only interest very...