The very fact that you're here means you probably know what I'm talking about. At one point in time, twitter was usable without 100,000 bluehairs and boomers screeching at everything all the time. Discord servers could be left in relative peace without being sought and destroyed by people that don't even know they exist yet. There was a time when Facebook wasn't the hip, happening place where your mom hangs out.
My initial thought is that hosting a large and diverse crowd under one roof is destined for disaster because it's filled with cliques that necessarily hate eachother. But even platforms like skype where everyone is separated got ruined from things like overzealous and malicious advertising once it got too popular (the ads would literally give you malware). This isn't even to mention all the privacy invasions from the glowies getting interested.
The strangest example is 4chan's /b/ where pretty much none of the usual suspects applied, and yet due to it's popularity and lack of gatekeeping, it turned into an unfunny cesspit and eventually just a big porn dump.
Is it possible to have a platform get popular without it going to shit? Are there any examples of this today?
My initial thought is that hosting a large and diverse crowd under one roof is destined for disaster because it's filled with cliques that necessarily hate eachother. But even platforms like skype where everyone is separated got ruined from things like overzealous and malicious advertising once it got too popular (the ads would literally give you malware). This isn't even to mention all the privacy invasions from the glowies getting interested.
The strangest example is 4chan's /b/ where pretty much none of the usual suspects applied, and yet due to it's popularity and lack of gatekeeping, it turned into an unfunny cesspit and eventually just a big porn dump.
Is it possible to have a platform get popular without it going to shit? Are there any examples of this today?