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In response to Chris's question, here are some thoughts on creating slowcore-friendly spaces for long-form online discussions. Call me a boomer, but for my purposes I still haven't found anything that measures up to the design of old-school phpBB forums. For ongoing, slow-paced, text-centric, long-form convos, and community-building centered around shared interests, I think they're excellent. I don't have the tech chops to handle setup + maintenance alone, but I've been a co-founder of a well-loved and active phpBB forum before, with me handling the community migration/moderation duties and my colleague handling the back end. Unfortunately that forum came to an unceremonious end for reasons beyond my control. But if some cypherpunks I trust were to say: "We'll build you any kind of space you'd like for Studio Slowcore to migrate your group chat to a new home. We'll handle hosting and tech support, and we'll work closely with you for business continuity planning and minimizing the risks of single points of failure." Assuming we had sufficient revenues to sustain it, then I'd say "Great. Let's go with a phpBB forum." See the first link for an example I found on the phpBB showcase page. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ That being said, @adam- recently shared a GitHub page with some screenshots from Campfire (see the second link), and the design looks promising enough that @trigs.eth and I seriously considered it for our studio. https://github.com/antiwork/smallbets/blob/master/campfire-mods.md

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I never used the old forum/BB type structures much beyond lightly browsing woodworking forums. I did spend 2 years working with a fairly large Reddit sub and can attest to the difficulty of capturing focus and cultivating conversations of prolonged interest, or even just finding a conversation from last week that kept plucking strings in the back of your brain. But what can I say, it was Reddit. In the end, I think clarity and alignment is likely more important than platform (I suspect that’s why the BB format still exists in super niche communities). When something clicks, being able to push bits of that out to social media apps where the community members can engage with a broader audience (modified POSSE) seems like a positive use of the faster paced feeds. Not a bad idea to own the data as well.

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Thanks for the thoughtful input! When you say you "worked with" a fairly large subreddit, do you mean that you were a moderator there? I think we're mostly on the same page about the importance of alignment over platform choice. Trigs has said something like "if the community seed is there, it will grow in any suitable medium." Perhaps, but nonetheless it's still difficult to migrate an established community to a new space. So it's not a decision I take lightly. I can't help but wonder what we might be capable of if we had a space that facilitated (rather than hindered) the kind of convos we want to cultivate.

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I was a moderator, we had a token and multisig, and, in my own way, I did some backend dev work for the sub as well — that’s not my really my skill but I love to tinker. We also looked at moving to a more decentralized platform when Reddit changed its api policy but the inertia was too much. Reading through the comments under your post “The Farcaster Scenius Lexicon”. In the sub, we experimented with how the tokens were distributed to try and encourage CLP type behavior, but never landed on anything that broke through short term monetization. When you say slow core client, do you ultimately mean, within a FC type ecosystem or outside of it? Two things that have made a place in my head that I think could help social media apps retain more critical thinking and contextual value: - Being able to highlight and extract specific sequence of reply/threads from conversations. Pull those out, rework them, repost them, but keep a link back to the original. - Providing a more contextual rather than social graph. Rather than a stream of 1 directional casts, where’s the feed that aggregates responses to the same link across posts and connects people and writing based on ideas.

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