[mighmi]

Things are really shifting right now. We were caught in a relatively stable period for almost a decade, using the same few apps - but everyone's now making huge missteps. Reddit and Twitter are (maybe) collapsing, FB is moribound. Amazon became flooded with lowquality fakes and false reviews, Google search can't find anything etc. etc. These sort of laws (also GDPR etc.) increasing the burden of newer sites while also hitting established ones appear to throw a wrench into the works too.

This seems like the perfect time for new solutions to emerge! (Federation seems to be going nowhere (unable to actually handle hosting at scale).) Myself, I've returned to HN for the first time in many years and have been finding thriving young communities which almost remind me of my childhood. What a type to be alive!

[probablynish]

I'm curious - where have you been finding these thriving communities? Every year or so I try looking for something that feels like the web of the IRC / indie internet forums era, but never have any luck

[aksss]

Lots of very high quality forums out there for very niche interests. It’s kind of dark forest theory though.