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Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

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177 points Arubis | 1 comments | 19 Oct 24 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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blfr ◴[19 Oct 24 21:23 UTC] No.41890886[source]▶
It seems to me that the blogosphere was not a ZIRP but rather a young Internet phenomenon. Which could exists, like usenet before it, when mere access to it was a filtering mechanism.

Once you have seven billion people with virtually no access control, you can't have a public blogosphere, and groups retreat to the cozyweb.

Either way, I enjoyed it while it lasted. Thanks for the Office series!

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

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bartread ◴[19 Oct 24 21:31 UTC] No.41890931[source]▶
> Once you have seven billion people with virtually no access control, you can't have a public blogosphere, and groups retreat to the cozyweb.

Why can’t you? There’s a logical leap in this statement I don’t follow.

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rogers12 ◴[19 Oct 24 21:50 UTC] No.41891017[source]▶
Those seven billion people aren't very good for the most part, and include a critical mass of spectacularly awful people. It turns out that public access forums calibrated for the small and self-selected community of mostly high quality internet pioneers aren't prepared to deal with 1000000x expansion of reachable audience. The Eternal September effect has been getting stronger ever since it's first been observed.
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1. rtpg ◴[19 Oct 24 23:48 UTC] No.41891731[source]▶
There's a gap between public fora and the blogosphere though.

Generally speaking there are plenty of blogs that get linked in places like here. Blogs just don't have comment sections hosted on their own as much anymore.

Having discussions happen in separate places is also interesting, because the HN convo and some subreddit convo will be different, for example.

There's a lot more mainstraeam stuff but I think niche communities still exist. Glibly, we're not a part of most of them on account of having gotten older. Or we are a part of some, but there's plenty we're not seeing.