I'm waiting for something minimal like tildes or hn to show up. These new competitors are too bloated.
You could use activity pub to handle a “personal front page” that includes stuff from other instances per user.
Maybe a bit naieve but that’s basically what I’d want at this point. Maybe I just want ye olde hyper-focused forums?
the people who care about sites running without js also don't contribute to revenue either.
like genuinely i don't think there's a more miserable crowd to support, with stronger preferences.
* Don't like to pay for anything
* overly privacy conscious and minimalistic
* highly opinionated, vocal and demanding in ways that probably won't help the mainstream (eg want high customisablity)
* high levels of autism mean they focus on irrelevant minutae, often perfectionistic. low appreciation of aesthetics
* accept things that are broken/way too difficult to use for non technical people
* dismissive of things that are easy if they could build them as well
Etc, etc