inpc on Nostr: Smaller online communities are much better at policing themselves. Thinking back to ...

Smaller online communities are much better at policing themselves.

Thinking back to forum days, some of the conversations were wild, sometimes pretty bad taste but communities set their own boundaries and people who didn’t adhere to that eventually got booted.

What Facebacon and Twitter did was create a free for all where everyone could interact with everyone else. But trying to get consensus on a global platform, without some common interest is pretty impossible. I’m sure Jack would have a thought or two on that…

I don’t think people’s sense of free speech being threatened would’ve been a problem without these big online mega-corps.

If you were a dick in a forum, you’d get booted but what might be appropriate in one forum could totally be the vibe elsewhere.

I don’t have any grand ideas about how to fix the internet but I do have a strong sense of what I like online.

I’m curious how communities will develop long term. I won’t be posting about Bitcoin or the Fed but appreciate that’s a very big part of peoples’ identities and that’s cool. I like a currency that bypasses the current system. My feelings around banking run very deep but it’s not something I want to discuss in public.

As the great Horace Andy sang, Money, money, money, is the root of all evil.

There’s music, art, science and nature to enjoy too and I’m here for that.