Disconnection is the only solution, walled gardens, paid or by invite, that prevent all the shit corporate America fills the commons with.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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Paid subs is no good but invite only is a good idea but how do you distinguish invite to a person compared to invite to a bot
This is something I'm very curious about. It seems like a really necessary utility in the future.
A way for people to validate other people but not totally blow away all privacy. Large group chats, email providers, etc already try to solve it. It would be cool to see some powerful open source tooling. Like what Signal is to E2E encrypted chats.
You only invite those you know, personally.
Just go outside at that point
I think you can know them personally from online. Ppl you game with or fellow content creators or people in the same hobby spaces etc.
I have made a concerted effort over the last two or three years to de-urbanize my online activity. One thing I've noticed is that even small communities are affected by AI. Crawlers and spambots can cause a small site with limited resources to crumple under the weight of nonhuman traffic, a DDoS attack more or less. This makes it hard to self host a community.
While the fediverse helps to some degree it still suffers from copying the format of big social media sites. Lemmy is just a Reddit clone and Mastodon a Twitter clone, so the cultures of these communities mimic those of the big sites they emulate.
Already happened, but the AI companies will try their best to kill that off too.
They don't want to kill it...they're just incapable of invention and innovation, so they push and crowd like parasite universes on the edge of humanity. Like the sea trying to warm itself around a candle.
I'm ready for the return to webrings.
Some sort of F2F network like Retroshare would solve the problem.