I'm a digital freelancer, writer, uncle, internet troublemaker, and fond admirer of the French Goodbye.

Chat has its limits though. For information to be synthesized into knowledge, the rate of messaging needs to be slowed down to make room for less reactive, more deliberate, long-form expression.

That are Forums.

Discord today is equal parts group chat and forum.

with limitations:

• Discord is not web-readable and thus only minimally linkable
• Discord mixes different thread concepts (chat-channel threads vs forum-channel threads)
• Discord's finances are dubious
• Discord is closed source.

Messages are living information artifacts. As content blobs they can morph through many different forms, from ephemeral musings to everlasting tomes of shared understandings.

I like the flow from thought to chat to thread to article: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/583842/273896083-c035f6d7-47b2-43e4-abe6-4d42a5f54c76.png

So the author introduce the Commune app (see https://shpong.com/):

While in v0.x_pre-alpha it is essentially Linen (or Discourse Bot Kit), but for Matrix instead of Discord/Slack. Hook your existing Matrix instances up with Commune to give your channels web-public threading superpowers. [...] It's a Reddit-like site that operates a network of sub-communities.

Metaphosr of the web as Dark Forest, cozy web, dark web, corporate web, etc...

And there are The Towns, the IndiWeb or the small web. There is the fun !

A newsletter that highlights blogs and their authors.

Let's create a holiday card generator by learning how to get access to a user's webcam and compose a screenshot.