I keep seeing hints of these communities existing, here in hn comments. Every time a thread is about communities that are still good, still human etc someone pops up saying these communities exist, but no-one ever mentions what these communities are.
I mean, I get it: one risks eternal-september-ing them as soon as the hn crowd finds out about them, but sometimes it's really frustrating going down a thread hoping to find better indications for these mythical great communities and always coming back empty-handed.
Online the only one I've seen is discord, I don't really like the discord experience though
We're all lurking in Cixin's dark forest, watching. The aliens are already here, and they're hungry for more tokens.
> someone pops up saying these communities exist,
Maybe send those people a hand-written email ;)
Yeah. Because we don't want hacker news assholes to find them and destroy them, the way they've been systematically pillaging the rest of the Internet.
"I saw you posted about a community.."
The couple of enthusiast email lists I'm on are still real people, as far as I can tell.