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note16ymef...
Niel Liesmons profile picture
If you get everyone together in one place anyway, call it a public community and enable ways to to set up and organically discover other ones.

Keep communities intentionally relatively small.
(less drama, more signal and better monetization strategies)

Enable publishing certain content types in multiple communities at once.
(blind-spot opportunity that most builders on open protocols keep missing and keeps them trapped in a false "public-square VS niche without reach" dichotomy)
note1vgxcs...
Niel Liesmons profile picture
Yup, I think initially focusing on private contacts, chat groups and small public communities is the better way to bootstrap in any case.

Why do so many of these projects want to bootstrap a public square?
It's freaking hard and in the case you succeed it'd be only to realize, once again, that every public square ever trends towards corrupt centralization, high school drama and whoredom.
note12umdw...
Niel Liesmons profile picture
If I'm not wrong, that's kinda how pubky does it, right? But in public folders, on the homeservers.

#noob trying to understand it all here.

But I just want a root ID that points to my drive (homeserver), then have data on there, part of that data being profile metadata that I can choose to have discoverable by (some or all) others.
note1apckl...
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Ideally you have access control on that stuff.
This what people loved about Facebook (until they messed that all up), the ability to choose woo cash see what.

It'd be a bit like an auto-fill UX, that you confirm our not, when you want to post in some forum or join a chat.