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You can still find the essence of community on the traditional internet in places like invite-only discords, smaller mastodon instances, traditional forums, and
by LexiMax 8mo ago
You can still find the essence of community on the traditional internet in places like invite-only discords, smaller mastodon instances, traditional forums, and spaces similar to Lobsters and Tildes.
...and not on Hacker News. Too many pseudo-anonymous jerks, too many throwaways, too much faith placed in gamified moderation tools.
- lazide 8mo agoPotentially, but those areas are also more and more getting leveraged to further identify and profile people for targeting - see the latest Discord scandal for example.