True. You can't escape core infrastructure. But that's kinda analogous to being at the mercy of energy companies and banks--at least those are heavily regulated, I suppose.Frighteningly we are all still at the mercy of ISPs and payment processors….
True. You can't escape core infrastructure. But that's kinda analogous to being at the mercy of energy companies and banks--at least those are heavily regulated, I suppose.Frighteningly we are all still at the mercy of ISPs and payment processors….
Similar dismissives have been used about many other publishers, such as Evil hat, Great White Games, Mongoose (don't know if it's still true), and Palladium (last I heard, staff of 3)...
Doesn't make their boards any more independent.
Can you do this again?You know I found as many RPG forums, classified them and did a visualization of them . . . almost exactly 10 years ago.
A lot of those are still around actually.
You can click any of the sites on the treemap or table and it will open up the website.
(I am still bummed that the Kenzerco forum is gone.)
Well I have been tempted to do so on a number of occaisons. It is a fair bit of manual data gathering efforts.Can you do this again?
This is why AI summaries are a thing.Search functions in general are irrelevant, because people will ask the same question that is easily answered via search, anyway.
Yet #Bluesky is on your list.You interpret correctly. Basically, not a big information conglomerate like Facebook, X, Tiktok, Reddit, Instgram, YouTube.
Real forums made by real human beings (like you!).
This is why AI summaries are a thing.
They’re terrible. Apple’s makes up news and attributes it to outlets, my phone tells me the opposite of what emails contain, they focus on pointless stuff and don’t just bury the lede they frequently miss it entirely. We’re some way off reliable summaries.This is why AI summaries are a thing.
And the appellate courts overturned the regulatory requirements for net neutrality.Frighteningly we are all still at the mercy of ISPs and payment processors….