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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Defederation I believe is a really powerful tool. More so than it seems. It creates islands of a sort and you can be more or less assured that your interests are respected. If they’re not you move to an instance that federates with likeminded individuals. Makes it so much easier to isolate bad actors since they tend to group together. And then you disconnect from them and suddenly a whole avalanche of problems simply goes away. Moderation is obviously necessary but it is much more of a community effort. Keep in mind that most admins and mods are here because they want to use the forum just like you do. Your interests align much more than if a vc backed company Hosts your community with the singular goal of extracting as much value out of you as they can in whatever way available.


  • Someone posted a link a while ago to an article called killing community. I believe it speaks what I’ve been thinking for a while. I’ve quit so many social media over such a long time but I’m also part of a small community of friends. We Have our own little corner of the internet with file sharing and things like password manager and chat server and so on. We’ve been going strong for 15 years and going. Growth at all costs destroys communities.


  • I believe it just felt more pseudo anonymous because of how lively discussions can get, but nothing stops you from going back through peoples accounts and getting a feel for them. If you’d like to post something completely anonymously here you arguably have even more choice since you could set up accounts on entirely different instances with an entirely new name and nobody would know who you are. So I think it’s a mentality problem and not exactly a technical thing. You can be anonymous here too. :)