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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 17, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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Yeah. There used to exist forums with competent moderation that allowed quality, technical, high level discussion among members and yet random onlookers could view the discussion, and many of them were indexed by search engines so you could find them when needed as well.

Reddit sort of replaced this but shit the bed because

A) Useful subs get overwhelmed by casuals and Eternal September kicks in

B) Useful subs go private to avoid the above and can't be accessed or indexed or searched OR

C) Powermods capture the useful sub and turn it into an ideological echo chamber.

Wikipedia could probably step up and fill a massive gap here, but there's signs it is ideologically captured a swell.

I am not satisified with AI 'replacing' the open internet that we had, even if it manages to match the general quality.