Community moderation works . This was the overwhelming lesson of the early internet. It works because it mirrors the social interaction of real life, where social groups exclude people who don’t fit in. And it works because it distributes the task of policing the internet to a vast number of volunteers, who provide the free labor of keeping forums... See more

we need semipermeable membranes

discussions work better when you can pick and choose who you’re talking to.

Maybe we’ve realized that the internet simply works better as a fragmented thing.