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> before discord there were lots of self-organized forums with their own communities and rules. And running them was awful and drove the people who did it insa
by astrange 10mo ago
> before discord there were lots of self-organized forums with their own communities and rules.
And running them was awful and drove the people who did it insane, mostly because you had to fight spambots.
- Nasrudith 10mo agoYeah, sadly it is the spambots which have killed off independent platforms more than anything else. It sounds like something which could easily give rise to conspiracy theories from people putting the spammers into the same mental baskets as the controlling companies. It isn't the expense of having to leave on a raspberry pi running a server.