In the golden age of Reddit that was all about this. You follow topics, talk about the most niche interest with the only 10 nerds on earth that care about it as much as you do and never ask for anyone name, age or wherever they are coming from.
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Yeah, I was chronically online from 1995 to 2021 and nobody knew what I looked like, who hadn't met me in person or been in a group chat, and nobody cared because we were just discussing our dorky stuff on some obscure board.
And then I joined Twitter.
I'm into some serious long-tail shit, fr. On social media, you have to market yourself, heavily, to find and scrape together those 10 nerds, so it's like...
I should probably post a pic. 🤔
And then everyone fell off their chair, like, LOL fr that u?
yeah, when all the normies showed up on the internet they squeezed us geeks to the margins and did pile-ins and censorship and all that shit, it seriously sucks
that's why i will never go back to another silo, #nostr oder tot
Yeah, can't do that stuff, anymore. Pointless. I need INFORMATION.
The censorship arose because you had everyone and their mother talking about everything under the sun in one feed and everyone trying to market their conversations to find others who want to talk about that thing. So, it was all in-your-face and Granny's feed contained NeoNazis and BDSM aficionados and 🌈whatever and it was like GET THIS OUT OF MY FEED OMG SO GROSS.
So long as Granny was in her Granny feed, she didn't know or care about the other convos.
that and getting paid by politicians to promote their political campaign and filter out opponents positions from the discussion so people don't think there is an alternative
Digital public squares are retarded.
I want digital villages connected by roads and telecom lines.