Enshittification

• August 2, 2026 One Platform for Three Things You're Doing in Three Places

  You use three different tools for three different kinds of communication. You probably don’t think about it this way, but you do.

  Slack or …

• August 2, 2026 The Third Place Problem With Discord

  Discord is the most successful digital third place ever built. 200 million people use it every month. Millions of communities live there — gaming …

• August 2, 2026 What Is a Digital Third Place?

  In 1989, sociologist Ray Oldenburg wrote The Great Good Place and gave a name to something everyone already knew: we need three places. The first …

• June 14, 2026 Why I'm Building a BBS in 2026

  I ran a BBS when I was younger. This was before the web — you’d dial in on a modem, read messages, play games, chat with people in your town. It …