I don't even understand why they had to give up on the old platform and especially why so quickly. It can't have cost much money to run. They would have known it would take time to rebuild an audience base.
Honestly they should go in the other direction. Real people, real conversations. Upload an ID or a CC transaction or something in order to prove your identity, and require re-ups every few years.
the downside is no anonymity. The upside is, no astroturf, no bots, no nothing. Or maybe not 'none' but 'greatly reduced'.
That's actually a community I might be enthused about participating in. Sort of like HN, where a lot of people use their real names. The problem is how you bootstrap it. People need a good carrot to embrace the stick.
They keep trying to pull this brand name out of the graveyard but it makes people think of an era when the internet wasn't slop. That can only work against it in 2026.
I don't even understand why they had to give up on the old platform and especially why so quickly. It can't have cost much money to run. They would have known it would take time to rebuild an audience base.
Why would anyone care what the top 1000 voices in ai talk about? And it’s the users job to sift through that garbage?
This is like digg v3 all over again which killed the original site.
How the mighty have slopped.
Honestly they should go in the other direction. Real people, real conversations. Upload an ID or a CC transaction or something in order to prove your identity, and require re-ups every few years.
the downside is no anonymity. The upside is, no astroturf, no bots, no nothing. Or maybe not 'none' but 'greatly reduced'.
That's actually a community I might be enthused about participating in. Sort of like HN, where a lot of people use their real names. The problem is how you bootstrap it. People need a good carrot to embrace the stick.
As much as I dislike the idea, someone has to try it first, and other social media has been done to death, so I'm inclined to agree with you.
Disclaimer, I paid them $5 dollars for an account last year when they restarted, and never did anything with it.
They keep trying to pull this brand name out of the graveyard but it makes people think of an era when the internet wasn't slop. That can only work against it in 2026.
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