Social Terminal

• August 2, 2026 How to Build a Digital Third Place That's Actually Yours

  You’ve read about digital third places. You understand the problem — Discord isn’t yours, Slack is for work, X is a firehose, Reddit sold …

• 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 Internet You Visit on Purpose

  There’s a feeling people have about the old internet that they can’t quite name. They remember it — or feel like they should remember it — …

• 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 …

• July 31, 2026 Federated BBS: How Phosphor Makes Multi-Node Sync Declarative

  Every BBS in the 80s and 90s was an island. Your callers dialed your node. Your boards lived on your machine. If you wanted to share content with …

• 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 …