Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy
by pixl97 on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:24PM
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>But the interesting thing is that there's still nothing that makes it fundamentally impossible to start a relatively small forum nowadays.
I would disagree. There are a few things that make it exceedingly difficult (though not impossible)
1. Other platforms breathing up all the air in the room. No one's going to be giving your attention if they are being rage baited on twatter all day.
2. DDOS, and attack tools make it easy to blast your site totally off the internet the first time a troll gets pissed at you for one reason or another. You'll end up having to be behind CloudFlare or paying for some service to even exist.
3. If your site does gain the smallest amount of popularity the spammers and the bots will come, and you will spend a lot of time and effort to get rid of it. Eventually you are a worn out husk of a human being as you spend more and more time, money, and effort figuring out what is and isn't authentic on your forum.
I would disagree. There are a few things that make it exceedingly difficult (though not impossible)
1. Other platforms breathing up all the air in the room. No one's going to be giving your attention if they are being rage baited on twatter all day.
2. DDOS, and attack tools make it easy to blast your site totally off the internet the first time a troll gets pissed at you for one reason or another. You'll end up having to be behind CloudFlare or paying for some service to even exist.
3. If your site does gain the smallest amount of popularity the spammers and the bots will come, and you will spend a lot of time and effort to get rid of it. Eventually you are a worn out husk of a human being as you spend more and more time, money, and effort figuring out what is and isn't authentic on your forum.