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What online communities? Ever since Reddit went all-in on censorship, actual conversation moved to the deep web, mainly on Discord and other places invisible to
by halyconWays 4mo ago
What online communities? Ever since Reddit went all-in on censorship, actual conversation moved to the deep web, mainly on Discord and other places invisible to search engines.
- watwut 4mo agoOnly for open nazi and harassers.
- halyconWays 4mo agoWhat?
- 4ggr0 4mo agoi for one deleted discord a couple of months ago when news about age verification and palantir collaboration dropped. got too yucky for my taste. used it since 2016, now i just don't anymore. event went so far as to try to delete all of my messages with an extension, took like 2-3 days to delete my account. even then, i don't trust them enough to think that they don't keep copies of deleted messages. regret writing a lot of personal details and feelings in 1:1 chats, sometimes also in servers. i yearn for a new-age of decentralized communities and fora...
- tinyattackcat 4mo agoI too (like many others) want a proper decentralized community/platform, with proper incentives and privacy-respecting mechanisms baked in. Hard to justify such an ambitious project while going against the existing network effects of Reddit/Discord though, and taking VC money probably warps incentives and hurts trust...
- 4ggr0 4mo ago[dead]