One of the major issues of chan- and Reddit-esque formats is their ephemerality: a quality post or comment pops up, it helps your understanding out a ton, and then you can never find it again. Optimally the best posts would be in a nice concise format for easy reference and agitprop, without the annoyance of having to make some Wiki edits which most people don't do anyway.

As a solution to this, a feature to "canonize" a post (click a button, tag the post with a topic) that creates that topic (say Russo-Ukraine Crisis - Media Blackout of Ukraine's Faults) and displays a collection of memes, posts, articles, etc. would be a great base for coherent and consistent messaging. Imagine just having to look up the topic and finding a collection of "here's what works on your lib friends!" (Somewhat like lefty.booru.org, though that's just images)

Would anyone else be interested in this?

  • shiny [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    In terms of automatic text obfuscation (in addition to retooling), possible ideas are an ASCII ransom replacement of low perceptibility letters (Greek alpha for a, etc), translation and retranslation back to Eng via Google Translate of small random text blocks, random synonym-replacement via dictionary lookup. These all in the backend, serving everyone slightly different text.

    But I don’t want to get ahead of myself :)