alt Hacker News> Invitation-only is the future of online communities.
This feels antithetical/dystopian/elitist compared to what online communities are, for me. I think it's ok for some communities to be like this, but I don't think it's the future of online communities.
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Elitism and hierarchy are good. Drowning everything in slop and darkness is bad. Giving everyone something to strive for is good.
Isn't this how alot of discord works? maybe the communities are leniant with inviting but it still happens. A group chat is basically invite only too and that's pretty popular for communication.
I think we need to remove dystopian and elitist from the dictionary because at this point you can't breathe without being accused of it.
Deciding who is in or out is the fundamental basis of any community, that's freedom of association. That's what defines a community. A place anyone can enter is a train station bathroom and that's what the logical terminus of the open internet seems to be.
I think it is better to have some elitist communities, than to drag everyone down to some least common denomination...
I think that was one of the big mistakes/oversight that came with the Internet..