> First, does the problems still happen in places that aren't financially motivated like a hobby forum some guy hosts or on volunteer Mastodon servers?
I can't speak for Mastodon as I've never used it, but I was an avid user for a long time of many forums and boards on many topics back in the old Internet. And while we certainly had our share of flamewars about shit related to the topics, nobody was ever building a following invoking the tenets of White Supremacy on any of them?
> And don't internet forums broadly speaking also have problems even if they don't have feeds engineered for engagement? For example 4chan is just chronological sorting.
I mean, 4chan is a large board that doesn't have feeds, sure, but it does have different boards for different things. Most of them are benign nonsense and weeb culture stuff. What most people think is 4chan is actually 4chan's /b/ subforum. And while voting systems certainly increase engagement, I don't think they're required at all, especially when the larger community has already defined a culture of... well, whatever you'd like to call 4chan. It's certainly interesting whatever word you want to use.
> I can't speak for Mastodon as I've never used it, but I was an avid user for a long time of many forums and boards on many topics back in the old Internet. And while we certainly had our share of flamewars about shit related to the topics, nobody was ever building a following invoking the tenets of White Supremacy on any of them?
Ok, but that may be just because they were over at Stormfront, which seems to have existed since 1996.
Although I guess not having to share a platform and having undesired interactions with some groups is preferable.
I can't speak for Mastodon as I've never used it, but I was an avid user for a long time of many forums and boards on many topics back in the old Internet. And while we certainly had our share of flamewars about shit related to the topics, nobody was ever building a following invoking the tenets of White Supremacy on any of them?
> And don't internet forums broadly speaking also have problems even if they don't have feeds engineered for engagement? For example 4chan is just chronological sorting.
I mean, 4chan is a large board that doesn't have feeds, sure, but it does have different boards for different things. Most of them are benign nonsense and weeb culture stuff. What most people think is 4chan is actually 4chan's /b/ subforum. And while voting systems certainly increase engagement, I don't think they're required at all, especially when the larger community has already defined a culture of... well, whatever you'd like to call 4chan. It's certainly interesting whatever word you want to use.