Lawyers, platform moderation, and SEO have wiped it out. What’s left is boring drivel whose only purpose is to sell you a product or a course or avoid a lawsuit. I realize some have moved to private groups and there are still sites if you look hard enough. But is that enough?
Federation feels like the right place to bring that culture back rather than let it die or has that ship sailed?
Is there something in particular you’re looking for that you can’t find? I feel like I can find out how most anything works on the internet.
I’ve been interested in methods to scrape social media. The more measures they create to block scraping the more I want to scrape it.
I’m interested in getting datasets to play around and analyze. Personal project stuff and just to learn and upgrade myself while doing something I’m interested in.