Re:I think we need more than one Hacker News on the web
by bell-cot on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:45PM
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There has been free software to create your own on-line community for what, about 35 years now?
Certainly it's possible to get the software & tech wrong - but once we got beyond the "a natural monopoly, for all the kids who can't afford to dial into a long-distance BBS" era, the software was never the real barrier to success.
Quality long-term community members aren't like fake Facebook followers, where you can just buy 'em at $X per thousand from some clickshop in the far east.
Re:I think we need more than one Hacker News on the web
by xcdzvyn on Sunday December 25, 2022 @03:43PM
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Can this title be changed please? It's entirely unrelated to the link and reads (to me at least) as somebody sincerely encouraging others to build communities around their hobbies - it is in fact a blatant advertisement for a blatant copy-cat service.
I'm entertained by their Twitter account already having been banned.[0]
How did you replicate dang? Was there enough history to train a large language model?
Certainly it's possible to get the software & tech wrong - but once we got beyond the "a natural monopoly, for all the kids who can't afford to dial into a long-distance BBS" era, the software was never the real barrier to success.
Quality long-term community members aren't like fake Facebook followers, where you can just buy 'em at $X per thousand from some clickshop in the far east.
I'm entertained by their Twitter account already having been banned.[0]
[0] https://twitter.com/hnplus