[thebeastie]

I would love if indiehackers could help fill this niche. Since it is aimed at people trying to launch products, pragmatism should reign, but there are things about the presentation and site policy that would seem to hold it back for this use case.

As a new user of the site, im not allowed to post, very few of the posts inspire me to comment anything (mainly because I’m not that knowledgeable about founder problems, but if there were more tech conversations then i would comment more), and there is a low throughput of new discussions as well. I feel like it could be done better.

[tonightstoast]

I have been thinking a lot about the epistemology issues social media is currently having and I’m wondering if old school forums with invites will make a return. Difference being this time maybe you have to be referred by x members and are interviewed by other current members. And maybe to keep it even more exclusive there is some type of monthly fee. Kinda thinking like what the Freemasons were/are (and hopefully without those issues).

[thebeastie]

Well, there are mastodon servers which are like that. But in reality, being open and socially curated should be good enough. Making the site invite only doesn’t preclude its eventual decadence, nor endure that you get the best user base.