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What's the problem with existing ones? And why do social networks draw so much attention relative to other social platform patterns, like forums?

I've been thinking for a while that there should be something like a decentralized omni-Reddit. I liked forums, but people don't want to use them anymore, because there are too many different signups and too many different notification streams/etc. on too many different sites to bother with - so if you had something like Mastodon for forums, that could mitigate that.

But it seems like a consensus has set in that Facebook/Twitter-like social networks are the One True Model, and very few people are interested in things like forums anymore.

[kixiQu]

Always love boosting other people's open-source projects: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy "A link aggregator / reddit clone for the fediverse."