| ▲ | arkh 2 days ago |
| > the internet was being built around non-fiction I guess you don't tread the same internet waters. https://www.royalroad.com/home https://archiveofourown.org/ and the good old link rings like https://topwebfiction.com/ |
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| ▲ | FeepingCreature a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| https://fanfiction.net/ https://forums.spacebattles.com/ https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ https://questden.org/ and of course usenet before it. the internet was always built around fiction. |
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| ▲ | storywatch a day ago | parent | next [-] | | You forgot questionable questing https://forum.questionablequesting.com/ | | |
| ▲ | FeepingCreature a day ago | parent [-] | | I mean I didn't want to link the pornfic site lol. I didn't link asstr either. | | |
| ▲ | storywatch a day ago | parent [-] | | Questionable questing came out of SpaceBattles/Sufficient Velocity during one of their schisms. | | |
| ▲ | FeepingCreature 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah from a perspective of grouping it definitely belongs in the SB/SV/QQ list. From a perspective of should I link unsuspecting people to a site with a SFW section that can be described as 'vestigial', or maybe 'decorative', I thought "better not." :) | | |
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| ▲ | vunderba a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wattpads also been around for nearly 20 years as well. | | |
| ▲ | storywatch a day ago | parent [-] | | They went full corporate. Naver (Korean manhwa conglomerate) bought them. |
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| ▲ | samuelcole 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| i know, i'm being a bit emotional here, ha i'm mostly reacting to the default thing that people scroll are reddit, facebook, instagram, ahem hn which are all non-fiction... i wanted to build something easy to scroll in line at the grocery store that was fiction |
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| ▲ | d4mi3n a day ago | parent | next [-] | | I think the dissonance you’re running into here is that places like Reddit are not monolithic. Saying Reddit, basically a very large collection of user submitted writing, is _entirely_ non-fiction is not correct and ignores years of short stories, web serials, fanfiction, role playing, story telling, and all manner of creative fictional writing. I’d wager to say the bulk of such work on the internet exists under the Reddit umbrella, or is at a minimum cross-posted there. | |
| ▲ | pasc1878 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Many items on those are fiction. Some even intentionally so. |
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| ▲ | paxys a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Also LinkedIn, Reddit, most Substack, large chunks of HN… |
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| ▲ | storywatch a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| These days Patreon is another big platform |
