I share your frustrations. I was hopefully for the relaunch of Digg, but it very quickly started to feel like Reddit, especially when people inject politics (with an heavy bias) into everything. I purposely didn’t follow the politics community, as I had a feeling that would be bad, but that mindset very quickly started infecting many other communities and discussions. It seemed impossible to have a good faith discussion of the actual issues. I gave up yesterday, deleting the app, logging out of the site, and deleting my bookmark. I’m too old to waste my time dealing with conversations like those.
Thank you for the thought-terminating comment. Progress is always good, and we should never stop to look back, thinking perhaps that we have taken a wrong turn along the way.
Yes, it is cliché at this point to complain about the Internet, but there is a reason people do complain and it’s not because of rose-tinted glasses.
I don’t have any recommendations for you. A big part of the problem is that heavy moderation is necessary to keep forums from devolving into the slop that stands in for discourse these days. For example, even when there’s a fairly good question posted on reddit, the comments are just a string of one liners, snide quips, and snark. Few people know how to engage in thoughtful discussion anymore.
Check out https://cyberspace.online/
Look for text based media. As soon as images are introduced to a platform, memes take over and tank the quality of discourse.
I share your frustrations. I was hopefully for the relaunch of Digg, but it very quickly started to feel like Reddit, especially when people inject politics (with an heavy bias) into everything. I purposely didn’t follow the politics community, as I had a feeling that would be bad, but that mindset very quickly started infecting many other communities and discussions. It seemed impossible to have a good faith discussion of the actual issues. I gave up yesterday, deleting the app, logging out of the site, and deleting my bookmark. I’m too old to waste my time dealing with conversations like those.
Reddit has a meme problem as well. Also a bad mod problem.
It’s such a boon having such a large unpaid workforce but it’s kind of a Faustian bargain.
Wow. Can’t believe this is the first time in human history when someone thought things were better when they were younger.
Thank you for the thought-terminating comment. Progress is always good, and we should never stop to look back, thinking perhaps that we have taken a wrong turn along the way.
Yes, it is cliché at this point to complain about the Internet, but there is a reason people do complain and it’s not because of rose-tinted glasses.
You really think rose-tinted glasses is 0% of it?
If you start a link blog with an RSS feed and an email or some way to comment I will subscribe and participate if it’s good enough.
Start here:
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/
https://bearblog.dev
Well, then, checkout mine
https://www.rxjourney.net/
There are probably some very high quality mailing lists or discord servers out there, but I wouldn't know where to find them.
I have personally never seen a high quality discord server. The chaotic ui lends itself to noisy random conversations and dropped threads.
I don’t have any recommendations for you. A big part of the problem is that heavy moderation is necessary to keep forums from devolving into the slop that stands in for discourse these days. For example, even when there’s a fairly good question posted on reddit, the comments are just a string of one liners, snide quips, and snark. Few people know how to engage in thoughtful discussion anymore.
Check out mine
https://www.rxjourney.net/
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