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Well we made it “idiot proof” didn’t we, and all the idiots came. We need a sort of Dark Web with low crime, and mostly that’s things like HN and people running private Slack instances.

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In a way it kind of exists, you have Gopher and Gemini. The main links I know of.

gopher://sdf.org

gemini://sdf.org and gemini://gem.sdf.org

I already moved my personal WEB Site there, and there is interesting content there. Maybe "we" should migrate there and leave the LOL cats to the WEB :)

I don’t believe the Dead Internet theory, but I can see how people got there.

I was thinking about a Twitter clone where your account goes through an approval process where you provide a short essay and your Hacker News username. Client has no tracking, and uses no JavaScript.

Lemmy has a few like that. But it uses Javascript, heavily. (Or is it wasm? I never looked.)

I still think someone should make a job application for FE developers that doesn’t work and you have to edit the page source to submit your resume.

Put a comment in the source to say you did it on purpose so you don’t scare them off immediately.

This is the rough social media equivalent of Mensa - not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

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