Facebook Groups is this product - but it's exceedingly difficult to find the small percentage of well-moderated, smaller groups which are specialized/for enthusiasts. Also, the FB sub-comment/response structure is far worse than HN or Reddit and leaves much to be desired. But I've joined a few with good moderation and thoughtful, interesting discussions.
That being said, any group with [thousands] of members or loose moderation devolves into an absolute shitshow of shit posting and scam/spam posters.
On the other hand, also Clown Girl Honk Heaven. Perhaps there is yet hope that Internet Porn will survive 9/11 3.0.
Just give Zucky all your nudes, so he can, uh, keep an eye out for them. A dream come true.
https://futurism.com/facebook-wants-protect-your-nudes
"wait a minute, this is gay as hell..." "yeah, this is way gayer than tumblr". "alright everyone back onto tumblr"
human empathy and working set is totally limited by team size and cache level, you need to optimize for facing the same problems/interests as the person next to you.
Families/localities/regions are the cache layers of empathy. And I'm using "family" broadly.
"Contextual communities" I guess.
- Smaller streams, fewer people, more personal.
- No great feed of everything. You go to a place to read about a thing. Different thing, different place.
If discord had a bit more work that would enable persistent threads like reddit, and encouraged longer, more thoughtful posts like HN and quality moderation, it would be perfect.
Actually, what I want is HN/Discord mashup. Anybody want to fund it?