Comment by CM30
1 year ago
I'd say that video game modding and hacking communities have a similar vibe to them, as do fan created content sites and communities in general.
Probably in all causes because being unable to legally make money from your activities scares away folks that just want to cash in on the latest grift, and don't care a single damn about quality.
Video game mod sites are highly political. You can’t get away with anything that would have been fine in the year 2007.
There’s no debate any more, just banning and shadow banning. Forums used to be spicy! Now they are nothing but toxic positivity or bland nothingness.
There are still "spicy" fourms.
X (formerly twitter) has been-re-spicified. Which is exactly why so many people are mad at Musk and writing daily hitpieces on him, and his companies, including X.
Freedom is really just the right to do or say the "wrong" thing, which is the "spicy" stuff, IMHO. To me they're one and the same. No spice indicates a lack of freedom of speech.