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That already happens but they're small communities so you don't have much awareness of those that you're not a member of. Anyone can join privately run forums w

That already happens but they're small communities so you don't have much awareness of those that you're not a member of. Anyone can join privately run forums with like-minded people and sensible moderation that they agree with. There's no problem to be solved. When you want small communities, you have forums, when you want lowest-common-denominator drivel, you have Facebook, and when you want to feel tribal warmth by sharing your political opinions with people who agree with you while also being protected from opinions you don't agree with, you have Twitter.

pavel_lishin 8y ago
> when you want lowest-common-denominator drivel, you have Facebook, and when you want to feel tribal warmth by sharing your political opinions with people who agree with you while also being protected from opinions you don't agree with, you have Twitter. That's not exactly fair; you can customize Twitter (to some degree, if you use a third party app) and Facebook (to an even smaller degree) to actually get content you care about. (e.g., there's no small forum I can join that'll get me Charles Stross's musings and a video game developer whose updates I like and a podcast's funny tweets.) RSS used to be great for that sort of thing, but it's been largely superceded by Twitter, etc.