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Re:Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have 'hobby' apps become th... by PLenz on Sunday September 08, 2024 @08:40AM (#41480049)
It's a cycle. The internet started with usenet and specific interest newsgroups and niche forums a la phpbb. Then the wide open of social media. Now back to specific again. A generation from now it will shift again.
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Re:Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have 'hobby' apps become th... by ethanol-brain on Sunday September 08, 2024 @08:51AM (#41480113)
I have been using the internet since 1995, and I have yet to see the cycle. From where I sit, it has been more of just a steady trend toward compartmentalization and aggregation.

(Not to say that there aren't a large number of great projects off the main path.)

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Re:Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have 'hobby' apps become th... by dotancohen on Sunday September 08, 2024 @08:50AM (#41480105) 

  > It's a cycle
Strava is for running, too.

Lrf, guvf vf n cha.

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Re:Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have 'hobby' apps become th... by EarlKing on Sunday September 08, 2024 @09:31AM (#41480306)
> Lrf, guvf vf n cha.

And here with the birth of broadband I thought we'd moved past the age of line noise.

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Re:Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have 'hobby' apps become th... by dotancohen on Sunday September 08, 2024 @10:38AM (#41480666) 

  $ echo Lrf, guvf vf n cha. | rot13
  Yes, this is a pun.
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Re:Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have 'hobby' apps become th... by supriyo-biswas on Sunday September 08, 2024 @08:50AM (#41480104)
Network effects, monopolization, a lack of diverse payment models on the internet, and reduced interest in system administration have primarily lead to the centralization of communities on a few platforms, which has lead us to this problem.

If you could somehow solve 2, 3 and 4, I assume there'd be many thriving topical communities in parallel, just like the forums of yore that you speak of.

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