Re:Reddit raises $410M in new funding
by zozbot234 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:56AM
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> Is the value of a single place for all these conversations that much higher than having a bunch of independent forums scattered across the web?
The problem with "independent forums scattered across the web" is that they make discovery (of users and service instances) harder. There are ways around this, like the Fediverse and SOLID standards, but most bulletin-board-like forums do not support them as of yet out of the box.
The problem with "independent forums scattered across the web" is that they make discovery (of users and service instances) harder. There are ways around this, like the Fediverse and SOLID standards, but most bulletin-board-like forums do not support them as of yet out of the box.