global communication platform

• problem::
  • there are a bunch of communication platforms
    • social media: twitter, facebook, insta, etc.
    • forums: reddit, hacker news
    • embedded discussion: disqus
    • all of them suffer from either being incomprehensive or out of place (in that the platform is not where they are normally going)
    • how can we infuse social-ness into the experience of the internet and enable collaboration at a more granular scale?
  • browsing web is inherently individual
• Idea::
  • what if you could have discussion on any page / section of the internet with everyone in the same “group”
    • how is this different from hypothes.is? doesn’t feel as personal. Can you make this feel more spontaneous and fun and alive while also supportiung the async use case?
      • how is this different than makespace?
  • way to get around lack of context would be injecting conv that link to it already from ur existing apps
  • Pros
    • in-place
    • global
• Problems with disqus
  • i think its hard bc what disqus tried to be isthis central hub where you can sign in with whatever u want or not sign in at all
    • but people still dont want to put their info into anohter new thing
    • like it has to feel native to whatever you’re used to
    • but if you choose just one it doesnt feel like it captures everyone
  • but i think it also suffers some from the failing of disqus in that people have to be on it first