Revolt: FOSS Discord Alternative(revolt.chat)

334 points by hyperific 3 years ago | 151 comments

Homepage of Revolt, a free and open-source chat platform positioned as an alternative to Discord, with a link to open its web app.

Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create(vicinity.social)

49 points by clarencehoward 11 months ago | 39 comments

Slack Is Down(slack.com)

99 points by floriangosse 3 years ago | 59 comments

Slack Is Down(slack.com)

52 points by stevefan1999 3 years ago | 33 comments

Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books(joinbookwyrm.com)

297 points by susanthenerd 3 years ago | 159 comments

Nostr – Decentralized social network(nostr.com)

124 points by throwaway689236 3 years ago | 123 comments

Killing Community(marginalia.nu)

495 points by dasil003 3 years ago | 350 comments

A Marginalia weblog post arguing that venture-capital-funded social media inevitably degrades online communities, citing the 2023 Reddit controversy.

Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet(blakewatson.com)

706 points by blakewatson 2 years ago | 310 comments

A personal blog post by Blake Watson describing omg.lol, a community web service, as a refuge after leaving Twitter.

OpenAI to become for-profit company(reuters.com)

1239 points by jspann 2 years ago | 668 comments

News report that OpenAI plans to remove nonprofit control and become a for-profit company, giving Sam Altman equity; the captured page shows a captcha.

Dead Internet Theory(kudmitry.com)

597 points by skwee357 9 months ago | 638 comments

A personal blog post by Dmitry Kudryavtsev reflecting on the Dead Internet Theory, starting from his experience browsing Hacker News.

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come(blog.muni.town)

341 points by erlend_sh 1 year ago | 234 comments

A 2007 Coding Horror post by Jeff Atwood explaining why he avoids private social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn and prefers the public web.

OpenTF is now OpenTofu(github.com)

352 points by zoidb 3 years ago | 197 comments

GitHub page for the OpenTofu organization, the open source Terraform fork formerly called OpenTF, which urges HashiCorp to return Terraform to an open license.