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If you actually wanted a real public web you’d be running a Wordpress blog with open comments and linking to other blogs 😇
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Seriously though. All the community server stuff, whether mastodon or discord will either hit a scale limit requiring corporate platform management or produce cozyweb dynamics that are great in that role but not a twitter substitute.
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Don’t forget Twitter arrived as a blog disruptor. People even called it microblogging initially. Blogs are macrotwitter and way more robust. At the limit if what an individual can sustainably manage.
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Today blogs run on platforms like Wordpress dot com or with more abstraction at managed hosts like wpengine. But you can still run one using the open source Wordpress on a personal server. You get between 1-4 levels more indirection from platform level than substack.
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Costs money, but autonomy always does. And entry level with own domain is cheap enough. And you don’t have to moderate a whole community as with discord and mastodon. Just your own comments. And your deplatforming risks are at very low levels… DNS, CDNs, China...
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One reason I’m happy to stay on and watch how this unfolds and even hold out for the chance of it turning out okay is that I already have a live retreat place. I even still pay for my mailchimp distribution. If Twitter and substack vanish tomorrow you can still find me 😎
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I used to think an evolutionary Wordpress descendant not in PHP/lamp stack would emerge but now I doubt that will ever happen. This is an end-of-life phase but a long one with a decade plus left. By then the web3 shit should get to usable. Mirror etc already very good.
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Pick 2 of 3: 1. no bdfls* 2. high social tempo 3. openness. Twitter was a nice brief fantasy that you could have all 3 at once because previous owners were too weak (feature, not bug) to play god or lock it down architecturally. * benevolent dictator for life
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