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Re:Historical programming-language groups disappearing from ... by smabie on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @07:46PM (#23981908)
Sure, but what about commenting on the post? No one likes creating accounts for different websites in order to post one comment.

It's obvious that things like Twitter and Instagram provide value to celebrities and people who follow them. It's just that there are some serious externalities not factored in.

Re:Historical programming-language groups disappearing from ... by zozbot234 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:27PM (#23982188)
ActivityPub lets you mark a comment as a "reply" to a post (or any web resource), then all you need is a trackback-like facility to link from the post to comments on it. It doesn't need to be centralized.
Re:Historical programming-language groups disappearing from ... by lmm on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:32PM (#23982225)
How do you despam that?
Re:Historical programming-language groups disappearing from ... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:58PM (#23983406)
Or de-nazi it for that matter?