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Not. Until. Federated. Services. Don't. Suck.

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They were pretty clear about it - they screwed up by underestimating the scale of the problems. It's better to admit your mistake quickly and try to fix things.

Instead of building a Web of Trust, a better solution might be to find efficient ways of clustering people.

Look how civil and insightful this discussion is. Why? Because people have different "quality", even if it's not politically correct to talk about it, we all know it intuitively.

Imagine a forum, where all the HN-level people are gradually clustered together, all the rednecks with conspiracy theories, all the leftists dreaming of communism, all form their own independent echo-chambers.

Yes, echo-chambers are bad, but let's face it, you won't be able to change most people's opinions anyway. Don't agree with me? Go on reddit, try saying something "controversial", like "men can't get pregnant", see how many people you would be able to convince :)

Shouldn't we try to do something about it and not just give up by saying "oh, that's just human nature, nothing you can do here"?

All the digits of Pi exist, but you still need to do calculations to know what they are.

Seems like this bot is dumber.

I used it for a day with a single keyword "aging" - so far it sent me two posts: one for "swaging" and the other one for "messaging" :)

Hm, I didn't know about this bot. It's a new one, created in March this year. I created my bot 3 years ago, there was nothing like it then.

Looks similar, with additional functionality.

Sad, actually, my bot got zero traction and so somebody had to write their own bot, which is now more popular... So much for motivation to create new things... Oh, well.

This better mousetrap looks promising.

Nice rant but the answer is simple - incentives.

Seems like there's not that much demand for what you would like to see.

Crappy, barely working, software now is better then 1 year delayed perfect one.

That's why you need to build something that is at least an order of magnitude better, so people can't ignore you.

Otherwise, yes, this was my experience too: in our noisy world dominated by huge corporations, indie hackers stand little chance to get their message out and pick some interest.