17 connected korrents · 18 moments from 30 Jan 2019 to 5 Sept 2026.
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Federation is the real fix for losing your community every time a platform dies, but it does not work yet, so publishing on your own site and syndicating out is the interim answer.
Last stated 27 Sept 2024 · 2 years ago
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Molly White
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Whether the open web survives will be decided by what ordinary people collectively do, not by the companies that profit from it.
Last stated 27 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
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Molly White
Anil Dash
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Every migration to a new platform costs a community members it never gets back, and everyone has a limit on how many times they will pay it.
Last stated 27 Sept 2024 · 2 years ago
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Molly White
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Replacing a monopolistic platform with a single alternative isn't enough — real resilience requires diversity among competing platforms.
Last stated 25 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
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Phil Hagelberg
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With AGI on the horizon, online and offline communities will probably become really important.
Last stated 5 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
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Pieter Levels
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A platform of creators and developers is a durable moat, because an ecosystem, unlike a feature, cannot be cloned.
Last stated 26 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
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Evan Spiegel
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People who want unoptimised, personal conversation have retreated from the open web into closed rooms, and that retreat is a real loss.
Last stated 31 Dec 2022 · 4 years ago
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Maggie Appleton
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People stay on a platform they have come to dislike because leaving requires everyone they care about to agree to leave at the same time.
Last stated 30 Jan 2024 · 3 years ago
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Cory Doctorow
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Your own site stays the master source even once the work is syndicated everywhere else.
Last stated 12 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago
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Molly White
Derek Sivers
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Same subject: personal websites
A personal media library should be one canonical collection you control, reachable through as many native clients as you have devices.
Last stated 4 Aug 2026 · 3 months ago
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Kenneth Reitz
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Same subject: personal websites
A personal website is an autobiography, and everyone should have one.
Last stated 6 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
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Derek Sivers
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Same subject: personal websites
A plain text file and a basic editor are everything anyone needs in order to think and write well; the extra tools add nothing.
Last stated 2 Mar 2022 · 5 years ago
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Derek Sivers
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Same subject: censorship
A platform's failure to moderate or to cooperate belongs in a civil proceeding against the company before it becomes a criminal case against its founder.
Last stated 26 Aug 2024 · 2 years ago
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Mike Masnick
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Same subject: censorship
A threat loses First Amendment protection only if the speaker was at least reckless about it being taken as a threat.
Last stated 27 Jun 2023 · 3 years ago
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Ken White
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Same subject: censorship
An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media.
Last stated 20 Feb 2024 · 3 years ago
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Bill Ackman
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Same subject: Addiction
A builder asked to addict users should leave, because there are always other jobs and no amount of money is worth tearing up the fabric of a society.
Last stated 7 Jun 2026 · 5 months ago
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Tony Fadell
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Same subject: Addiction
A product that speeds up turning intention into reality increases appetite for continued use, then charges for that continuation.
Last stated 19 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Kenneth Reitz
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Same subject: Addiction
A profit motive inside a game holds players there long past the point where they are still enjoying it.
Last stated 30 Jan 2019 · 8 years ago
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Raph Koster