[countWSS]

When you make forums you compete with forum aggregators with more history and social clout, i.e. a reddit replacement. If someone made better Reddit, it could have a chance, however reddit-type aggregators crypronite is hosting their own videos/media, which makes it prohibitively expensive for small companies without ads and sponsored posts which in turn make them less of "forum aggregator" and more like facebook social feeds: mainly video/image based dopamine rides instead of actual knowledge worth keeping.

[WorldMaker]

People are allowed to make niche websites. We can disaggregate. It's probably better for the web if we did disaggregate given how many of the aggregators such as Wikia and Reddit and more have shown the tragedy of the commons that an aggregator over-specialize in being ad companies (or other questionable business models) over the long term rather than directly continuing to benefit the communities that trusted them as hosts in the first place, and often to the detriment and diaspora of those vary communities as they lose trust piecemeal and have fewer chances to "lift and shift" the entire community as a whole out of the aggregator in the same semi-easy manner they were aggregated in the first place.

The "social clout" advantage the giant aggregators have gained they are often working to lose a few communities at a time. Building a niche community site outside of the aggregators isn't competing with them in the same way any longer.

Maybe it is a time for building smaller niche sites again?

[rspoerri]

- not everything must be a unicorn.

- if you need aggregation use rss.