Re:We need to rewild the internet
by kristopolous on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @04:27PM
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yeah, click around the spacehey site. It's a bunch of kids 13-18 or so. I had initially thought this site was going to be mostly nostalgic people in their 30s and 40s.*
It's fascinating how people born after the decline of myspace has found a clone and helped bring it to life.
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* maybe it is and a bunch of people are just playing a character ... unlikely though.
Re:We need to rewild the internet
by katehikes88 on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @04:47PM
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sad thing is that you need to provide a phone number just to read those telegram and discord groups. 4chan is nothing like it used to be. it is run over by bot posts and shills from various interest groups. the amount of genuine anon posts is quite low.
Sorry for the offtopicness, but trollish usernames aren't allowed on HN, so we've banned this account.
If you want to pick a different username, we can rename it for you and unban the account, as long as the username is genuinely neutral.
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
I was just about to say this. The new pockets of internet communities are filled with interesting and fun things again. It’s just that a lot of them are for and run by teenagers. As adults, we either feel immediately out of place or just get banned outright.
The ones run by adults are incredibly niche focusing on “non-mainstream” interests.
Discovery is a little harder, yes. And it feels more ephemeral than the static sites of yore. But they’re out there. And they thrive.
And 4chan still exists.
The kids will be alright.