Broue
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Comment · 3 years ago
I wish you all the success with your grants and crowdfunding. We disagree with the feasibility of ssb as a platform, but either one of us trying to sway each other from their position may prove to be a foolish errand. Fair winds.
Comment · 3 years ago
I would agree.
@evbrogue I’m not sure if you know of the current tech stack direction… meta feeds so you have a blockchain of off blockchain content. This is the delete « fix »
Comment · 3 years ago
Simple,
1. it hasn’t grown past the early adopter phase 2. There is no product-market fit.
The evidence I have is the litany of dead accounts that follow my account. Luckily, via mastodon I’ve been able to reconnect with those people.
As someone else has mentioned mastodon is doing quite well. And from experience Web 1.0 blogging is a breath of fresh air.
The Nile is not just a river in Egypt.
Comment · 3 years ago
As a long time patchwork user —April 2017 for the win…— that just recently quit, I could see how the multitude of half finished clients, deprecated functionality would get to that outcome.
SSB is dead, other than the few trying to make a go financially at it, via either crowdfunding, NLnet grants, or VC.
I've reverted to Web 1.0 blogging, with none of the bs that is consistent with using a archived client, focus on trying to fit a database into a mobile app — without regard to front end functionality.
> When I look at Beaker, I think it was probably 50% easy. The initial demo took 2 weeks: 20%. It was a full website editor in about 2 months: 30%. The feedback was great: 50%. The users didn't stick: 50%. We got invited to talks which increased exposure: 51%. A few niche communities took an interest: 53%. Folks liked it enough to donate via OpenCollective and Patreon: 54%. You get the idea. Notably absent is "usage and retention went through the roof: 80%" and then "usage continued to grow for years: 100%."
Everything that pfrazee wrote here about Beaker Browser at https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-... is true for ssb.