Designing an Online Disccusion Board—A Thought Experiment

I’m a slow writer when it comes to this blog, and I’ve been working on it little by little since the last post. I promised in the last phost I would share how I would design an online discussion board (or link aggregator) service. A lot of things have changed since it’s been so long. I could go through and tweak some things, but I feel like leaving them gives a bit of character to the post and more accurately represents its place in time....

18 August 2023 · 38 min · 7944 words · Kuroshi

Thoughts on Reddit, Lemmy, and RSS

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but Reddit is imploding right now. I originally considered writing this as the first of a three-part series, but instead I think I’ll make it two. In this installment, I’ll briefly discuss what my thoughts on Reddit and their current direction are and follow that up with my own plans for my future online. Spoilers: I think that’s Lemmy for me, but there are other potential options too....

30 June 2023 · 26 min · 5406 words · Kuroshi