With the revitalization of the open web and the fediverse, it’s worth revisiting all of the parts of the social web that we’ve lost, and reflecting on how we might rebuild them in a Mastodon world. https://anildash.com/2016/08/08/the-lost-infrastructure-of-social-media/
The lost infrastructure of social media.

More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have faded away and been forgotten, but new incarnations of these features could still be valuable.As social networks grew in popularity and influence,

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@anildash It doesn’t mention forums, though to some extend they survived, with Discourse being the first to bring Forums 2.0 to the web I guess.

Funny, because I’m actually using your presentation from 2014 in my blog post as I introduce forums-as-a-service for our small not-for-profit members. #autoPromo

Wouldn’t you say that decentralized forums have been vastly impacted by Facebook Groups?

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