Before reddit were forums on every subject.(rip digg. in a deep diggy hole.)
It was a vastly efficient highpoint in crowdsourcing general solutions. Searchable, peer-review intensive. Tom's Hardware is still around, and a lot of FLOSS have forums yet...
but yah.
stuff with big CEOs who are adding big paywalls to their privacy-suckers like reddit and discord.
No such thing as neutral on a moving train.
Holding still is going right. A little jog in place is woke. Running for a better life, is, well... antifascist.
(Howard Zinn had a little essay collection?)
Glad I waded past the armchair speculators for this field-wrought wisdom.