Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Anyway, the more general tendency of moving away from public spaces is a right and natural thing.

Let me emphatically say that NO it isn’t.

If you need to anonymize or disguise your identity because you feel threatened, I never want to make you feel like you shouldn’t take whatever steps of protecting your privacy that you feel you need to.

That being said, no, I fundamentally consider societal progress to be roughly equatable to how open the systems are in a society both in the material and ideological realm. Public forums are progress because they allow anybody with an internet connection to read through conversations, learn and eventually participate and add to a general collective benefit and community. This is the power of the internet.

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