[viksit]

this is a really interesting point, thanks for pointing to it. Flarium to me competes with discourse in many ways, vs say, Reddit.

one of the biggest challenges to this model (IMO) has been that there is no "subreddit" or "stack exchange" model for discovery, or for communities to build their own "spaces".

my post comes at this from the perspective of - what would it take to create a decentralized "reddit", complete with subreddits etc. your comment makes me realize that I can do better in addressing this point! ty!

[coldcode]

I don't want spaces where people talk about one thing in a bubble, and then have to manually jump from space to space. Reddit is both cesspool and useful resource, but I can easily move from space to space or combine them all into a bigger space of my choosing. Being able to build a multi-space of things that interest me and leave out (at least some) of what I don't like or care for is necessary. Mastodon isn't that. Reddit is, or was. Can both ideas be combined? I am not sure yet.