> 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/
> 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/
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.
You forgot questionable questing
https://forum.questionablequesting.com/
I mean I didn't want to link the pornfic site lol. I didn't link asstr either.
Questionable questing came out of SpaceBattles/Sufficient Velocity during one of their schisms.
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." :)
Wattpads also been around for nearly 20 years as well.
They went full corporate. Naver (Korean manhwa conglomerate) bought them.
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
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.
Many items on those are fiction. Some even intentionally so.
Also LinkedIn, Reddit, most Substack, large chunks of HN…
These days Patreon is another big platform