I don't even understand why they had to give up on the old platform and especially why so quickly. It can't have cost much money to run. They would have known it would take time to rebuild an audience base.

Honestly they should go in the other direction. Real people, real conversations. Upload an ID or a CC transaction or something in order to prove your identity, and require re-ups every few years.

the downside is no anonymity. The upside is, no astroturf, no bots, no nothing. Or maybe not 'none' but 'greatly reduced'.

That's actually a community I might be enthused about participating in. Sort of like HN, where a lot of people use their real names. The problem is how you bootstrap it. People need a good carrot to embrace the stick.

How the mighty have slopped.

They keep trying to pull this brand name out of the graveyard but it makes people think of an era when the internet wasn't slop. That can only work against it in 2026.

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