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It's never going to happen, but I felt we solved all of this with forums and IRC back in the day. I wish we gravitated towards that kind of internet again. Gro
by Okawari 9mo ago
It's never going to happen, but I felt we solved all of this with forums and IRC back in the day. I wish we gravitated towards that kind of internet again.
Group sizes were smaller and as such easier to moderate. There could be plenty of similar interest forums which meant even if you pissed of some mods, there were always other forums. Invite only groups that recruited from larger forums (or even trusted members only sections on the same forum) were good at filtering out low value posters.
There were bots, but they were not as big of a problem. The message amplification was smaller, and it was probably harder to ban evade.
- adzm 9mo agoYou're describing Discord today
- Q6T46nT668w6i3m 9mo agoBots are a major problem on Discord. I frequently receive messages to buy MMO gold.
- jayd16 9mo agoThat's a flaw in the GP's plan, not a flaw in the observation that Discord is a good example of what they're asking for.
- Okawari 9mo agoI guess I am kind of describing Discord in some sense, I personally discounted Discord as I've only ever used it as a free voice chat for small groups. But to be fair, I would rather leverage basic HTTP websites for consuming social media content than everything being that boring discord client.
- thesuitonym 9mo ago> I wish we gravitated towards that kind of internet again. So do it. Forums haven't gone away, you just stopped going to them. Search for your special interest followed by "Powered by phpbb" (or Invision Community, or your preferred software) and you'll find plenty of surprisingly active communities out there.
- Okawari 9mo agoYeah, you are right! I have started going down that road the last year or so, but mostly in the IRC sphere. I started hanging out libera.chat, but found a smaller community on irc.inthemansion.com which I really enjoy. I'm probably just jaded as most of the forums I visited back in the day became ghost towns during the 2010s. I should make more of an effort here
- lrvick 9mo agohttps://hashbang.sh https://hashbang.sh / #!:matrix.org Been running for over 20 years and pick up new randos every day or two.
- KPGv2 9mo ago> It's never going to happen, but I felt we solved all of this with forums and IRC back in the day. I wish we gravitated towards that kind of internet again. IME young people use Discord, and those servers often require permission to even join. Nearly all my fandom communications happen on a few Discord servers, most of which you cannot join without an invitation, and if you're kicked (bad actors will be kicked), you cannot re-join (without permission).
- mycall 9mo agoIt happens in some places like Russia (MAX App) or in China (WeChat/Alipay) but do we want to go down that authoritarian road?