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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3271 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 28, 2023

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It looks like tildes.net found out about themotte.

They seem to mostly have negative takes, but that's not terribly surprising.

Edit: I don't know that this in particular is terribly important, but it's good to see that there's some small amount of discovery going on across the internet, in the interest of keeping themotte alive and well. I found this by searching for "themotte" on reddit.

What, more strawman, cherry-picking sneer? From the internet?

I can't believe it! I've never seen takes this hot before!

This is the Friday fun thread, but still, less of this, please.

A while back I had the idea of making a big post here about all of the political forums. I was just going to find all the active ones, discuss their strengths/weaknesses, and note what topics they talk about and whether they bring any new information to the table. I quickly ran into one problem: there are thousands of active political forums across thousands of websites. Did you know, for instance, that the “DC Urban Moms” forum has a political section with 2,035,933 messages?

Did you find any forums that you enjoy as much as, or close to as much as, themotte?

I’m afraid not

Well, that's DC, a city built around politics. But yes, practically every forum has a political corner.

Who are these people and why should any of us care?

I don't really know, I was just interested to see it making the rounds of the internet.

themotte being discovered elsewhere is probably good to avoid evaporative cooling.

What is this site?

I think Zorba considered using their codebase for this migration -- but as I recall there were some technical concerns, and the drama people had the added feature of being less pissy.

Going back to my original spreadsheet - "the un-nameable community" was rDrama, Reddit doesn't like people talking about it - the big issue was a lack of real-world testing, a lack of moderation tools, and somewhat worse performance. There was a lot I liked about it too, but in the end we went with rDrama.

I think it worked out great in the end, although admittedly not for reasons I could have foreseen.

I haven't been on it myself, but it looks like it's another text-based reddit-style discussion site? They say they also want relatively higher quality discussion than found on reddit. https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

I found this yesterday by searching "themotte" on reddit, and there was a post a few days ago on pointing to that post on tildes.

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