>This is just my personal opinion, but I think email lists the most accessible decentralized substitute.
Yeah, and IRC is the best web chat. We kept hearing that myopic old-school-dev-centered view on things for ages. What did it result in? People now beg FOSS projects not to use Discord (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712098). New generations of people, even software developers, aren't accustomed to old featureless technologies; and they consider them crappy. No, they aren't going to tinker with setting up an FTP server, they will just install Dropbox contrary to what HN users were commenting on that thread when Dropbox was announced (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224).
After all of that happening can we at least agree that email is not a good substitute for Reddit?
Yeah, and IRC is the best web chat. We kept hearing that myopic old-school-dev-centered view on things for ages. What did it result in? People now beg FOSS projects not to use Discord (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712098). New generations of people, even software developers, aren't accustomed to old featureless technologies; and they consider them crappy. No, they aren't going to tinker with setting up an FTP server, they will just install Dropbox contrary to what HN users were commenting on that thread when Dropbox was announced (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224).
After all of that happening can we at least agree that email is not a good substitute for Reddit?