#onlinecommunity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #onlinecommunity, aggregated by home.social.
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KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
KitGuru: Forza Forums celebrates its 20th anniversary by shutting down the site. “While a disappointing conclusion, what is perhaps even more unfortunate is the fact that ‘we do not plan to archive or replace the Forums in their current form’ – meaning 20 years of fan discourse will be wiped from the internet.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/kitguru-forza-forums-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-by-shutting-down-the-site/ -
Mashable: What is Thundr? Omegle’s replacement, warts and all.. “Thundr is a random video and text chat service that’s emulating Omegle the most in 2026. Think of it as Omegle with actual guardrails, offering far more ways to get your exact match through tags, country selection, and AI moderation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/mashable-what-is-thundr-omegles-replacement-warts-and-all/ -
Mashable: What is Thundr? Omegle’s replacement, warts and all.. “Thundr is a random video and text chat service that’s emulating Omegle the most in 2026. Think of it as Omegle with actual guardrails, offering far more ways to get your exact match through tags, country selection, and AI moderation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/mashable-what-is-thundr-omegles-replacement-warts-and-all/ -
Mashable: What is Thundr? Omegle’s replacement, warts and all.. “Thundr is a random video and text chat service that’s emulating Omegle the most in 2026. Think of it as Omegle with actual guardrails, offering far more ways to get your exact match through tags, country selection, and AI moderation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/mashable-what-is-thundr-omegles-replacement-warts-and-all/ -
Mashable: What is Thundr? Omegle’s replacement, warts and all.. “Thundr is a random video and text chat service that’s emulating Omegle the most in 2026. Think of it as Omegle with actual guardrails, offering far more ways to get your exact match through tags, country selection, and AI moderation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/mashable-what-is-thundr-omegles-replacement-warts-and-all/ -
Mashable: What is Thundr? Omegle’s replacement, warts and all.. “Thundr is a random video and text chat service that’s emulating Omegle the most in 2026. Think of it as Omegle with actual guardrails, offering far more ways to get your exact match through tags, country selection, and AI moderation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/mashable-what-is-thundr-omegles-replacement-warts-and-all/ -
University of Exeter: Even when people’s opinions are hard to change, online comments can shape how political social media content is perceived, study shows. “The findings come from two large research projects involving more than 11,000 respondents across five European countries. Across both studies, researchers found that comments appearing underneath social media posts can influence how […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/17/university-of-exeter-even-when-peoples-opinions-are-hard-to-change-online-comments-can-shape-how-political-social-media-content-is-perceived-study-shows/ -
Change Facebook Group Name in Minutes
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#Facebook #SocialMedia #FacebookGroup #Tech #DigitalTips #HowTo #OnlineCommunity
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ABC News (Australia): At 102 years old, Dean Simes might be Australia’s oldest tech-help guy. “Age is no barrier for 102-year-old Dean Simes, who runs the Computer Pals seniors computer club in Turramurra. Mr Simes’s club teaches senior citizens how to use a variety of computer and smartphone functions such as Windows 11, Microsoft Excel and WhatsApp.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/18/abc-news-at-102-years-old-dean-simes-might-be-australias-oldest-tech-help-guy/ -
McMaster University: Study examines what Reddit reveals about measles’ return . “Rachel Zhou, a professor in the Department of Health, Aging and Society, studied thousands of Reddit conversations to understand how people made sense of the measles’ resurgence in 2025. The posts reveal more than opinions about vaccines, she says. They show how people remember – and forget – disease, how […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/mcmaster-university-study-examines-what-reddit-reveals-about-measles-return/ -
Mat Duggan: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse. “I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there’s something quietly beautiful about a place where people just… share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/11/mat-duggan-boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/ -
Mat Duggan: Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse. “I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there’s something quietly beautiful about a place where people just… share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/11/mat-duggan-boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/ -
There's an online text-based MUD that I've been playing since around 2004 (I've been playing in MUDs since finding them online as far back as 1994, before the web was a thing). By which I mean I started playing it when it came out in 2004, then left somewhere around 2010ish. Then recently came back to play a totally different character last year. This is an RP heavy MUD (plus you can be trans, or NB, and choose your race or change your race, lots of options). Players have a lot of control over making things happen. They get to design everything from clothing to furniture to food and beverages. The Gods tend to be real (and played by real people). Part of what I enjoyed about it was that PvP on the main plane of existence was monitored and controlled. So it was possible to avoid a lot of griefing that happens in other games.
This time around I've created a cook who is running a fine dining restaurant. The admins recently added a whole bunch of stuff to make running a restaurant more feasible and I'm really down for this. It's got my creative juices flowing again.
But I do miss when there were more people around to interact with. I don't miss when most of the people around to interact with were just jerks who wanted to RP being an asshole and just expected everyone around them to take it in the name of "good RP". Fuck that noise. I get wanting to play, say, an asshole who does dickish stuff in a game. The thing is, in order to do this, you have to be an asshole to other players who are not assholes. It's tiresome and I don't enjoy being the butt of your mean-girl RP thankyouverymuch. I'm here to have fun, to be cute, to cook and brew beverages, and just generally have a nice time.
The game is dying, of course, for a lot of reasons. But at least some of it is because 1) no one reads any more and 2) They want flashy video games, not games where they have to READ the SCREEN to know what's going on.
This is a really long-winded way of me saying "Hey, come on over here and play! It's a little boring sometimes, but it can be fun". If you do come over, I'm in the city of Gaudiguch, and I have a restaurant based there. Come play! (Feel free to ask me questions or for help if you decide to play)
#lusternia #MUDs #roleplaying #online-community #trans/nb-roleplay #crafting-fun -
There's an online text-based MUD that I've been playing since around 2004 (I've been playing in MUDs since finding them online as far back as 1994, before the web was a thing). By which I mean I started playing it when it came out in 2004, then left somewhere around 2010ish. Then recently came back to play a totally different character last year. This is an RP heavy MUD (plus you can be trans, or NB, and choose your race or change your race, lots of options). Players have a lot of control over making things happen. They get to design everything from clothing to furniture to food and beverages. The Gods tend to be real (and played by real people). Part of what I enjoyed about it was that PvP on the main plane of existence was monitored and controlled. So it was possible to avoid a lot of griefing that happens in other games.
This time around I've created a cook who is running a fine dining restaurant. The admins recently added a whole bunch of stuff to make running a restaurant more feasible and I'm really down for this. It's got my creative juices flowing again.
But I do miss when there were more people around to interact with. I don't miss when most of the people around to interact with were just jerks who wanted to RP being an asshole and just expected everyone around them to take it in the name of "good RP". Fuck that noise. I get wanting to play, say, an asshole who does dickish stuff in a game. The thing is, in order to do this, you have to be an asshole to other players who are not assholes. It's tiresome and I don't enjoy being the butt of your mean-girl RP thankyouverymuch. I'm here to have fun, to be cute, to cook and brew beverages, and just generally have a nice time.
The game is dying, of course, for a lot of reasons. But at least some of it is because 1) no one reads any more and 2) They want flashy video games, not games where they have to READ the SCREEN to know what's going on.
This is a really long-winded way of me saying "Hey, come on over here and play! It's a little boring sometimes, but it can be fun". If you do come over, I'm in the city of Gaudiguch, and I have a restaurant based there. Come play! (Feel free to ask me questions or for help if you decide to play)
#lusternia #MUDs #roleplaying #online-community #trans/nb-roleplay #crafting-fun -
Ars Technica: Inside the DHS forum where ICE agents trash talk one another. “Every day, people log into an online forum for current and former Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers to share their thoughts on the news of the day and complain about their colleagues in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/ars-technica-inside-the-dhs-forum-where-ice-agents-trash-talk-one-another/ -
Reddit's Strategy: Human Content Amidst AI Advancements
Reddit uses AI tools to help users and moderators, while keeping its focus on real people talking to each other. Learn how Reddit stays human in the age of AI.
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Reddit is using new AI tools to help people on its platform. These tools help moderators and make it easier for users to find information. Reddit says its main goal is to keep real people talking to each other, not to have AI take over.
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35 times this online community revealed the reality behind the #Instagram photos: https://zorz.it/3TkJTPy
#SaumyaRatan #HeavilyEditedPhotos #InstagramReality #InstagramVsReality #photoshop #PhotoshoppedInstagramPics #InstagramPhotos #OnlineCommunity
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International Business Times: ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They’re Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises. “In raw, unfiltered Reddit posts now spreading beyond law-enforcement circles, ICE officers describe going a month or more without a paycheque, struggling to secure medical cover for sick children, and watching promised bonuses quietly stall.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/04/international-business-times-ice-employees-vent-on-reddit-saying-theyre-not-getting-paid-and-still-no-insurance-despite-promises/ -
Boredom ends here! 🛑✨
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#Socializing #ChatRoom #Ronza_Chat #NewFriends #OnlineCommunity #HotTrends #MustJoin
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Source: Journalism lost its culture of sharing. “We crunched the numbers, and your hunch is right. In fact, it’s probably worse than you think. The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed. Activity on GitHub has cratered. In 2016, news organizations posted more than 2,000 public projects to the code-sharing site. Last year, that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/30/source-journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharing/ -
Washington Post: Outrage over ICE has spilled into typically apolitical online spaces. This link goes to the syndicated MSN version which has no paywall. “The moderator didn’t know how this post would go over; the forum’s most heated dispute had been about whether other animals being played like bongos should be allowed. But the anti-ICE post exploded, receiving more than 40,000 Reddit […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/29/washington-post-outrage-over-ice-has-spilled-into-typically-apolitical-online-spaces/ -
Geeks Are Sexy: Stack Overflow Is Dead, Long Live Its Training Data. “The numbers are brutal. Monthly questions have collapsed from more than 200,000 in 2014 to just 3,862 in December 2025. The reason is obvious: 84% of developers now use AI coding assistants. Turns out people prefer instant answers over being publicly shamed for forgetting a semicolon.” I tried Stack Overflow once. ONCE. It […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/19/geeks-are-sexy-stack-overflow-is-dead-long-live-its-training-data/ -
NiemanLab: Newsrooms are taking comments seriously again. “Reader comments are having a mini renaissance. After years of chasing social media engagement and being burned in the process, publishers have realized that commenting has a tangible value — to the broader public, yes, but also in terms of advertising and subscription revenue.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/18/niemanlab-newsrooms-are-taking-comments-seriously-again/ -
The Conversation: Reddit and TikTok – with the help of AI – are reshaping how researchers understand substance use . “Today, millions of people openly discuss their experiences with drugs online, creating a vast collection of raw narratives about drug use. As a doctoral student in information science with a background in public health, I use this material to better understand how people who use […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/15/the-conversation-reddit-and-tiktok-with-the-help-of-ai-are-reshaping-how-researchers-understand-substance-use/ -
The Conversation: Reddit and TikTok – with the help of AI – are reshaping how researchers understand substance use . “Today, millions of people openly discuss their experiences with drugs online, creating a vast collection of raw narratives about drug use. As a doctoral student in information science with a background in public health, I use this material to better understand how people who use […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/15/the-conversation-reddit-and-tiktok-with-the-help-of-ai-are-reshaping-how-researchers-understand-substance-use/ -
The Conversation: Reddit and TikTok – with the help of AI – are reshaping how researchers understand substance use . “Today, millions of people openly discuss their experiences with drugs online, creating a vast collection of raw narratives about drug use. As a doctoral student in information science with a background in public health, I use this material to better understand how people who use […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/15/the-conversation-reddit-and-tiktok-with-the-help-of-ai-are-reshaping-how-researchers-understand-substance-use/ -
The Conversation: Reddit and TikTok – with the help of AI – are reshaping how researchers understand substance use . “Today, millions of people openly discuss their experiences with drugs online, creating a vast collection of raw narratives about drug use. As a doctoral student in information science with a background in public health, I use this material to better understand how people who use […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/15/the-conversation-reddit-and-tiktok-with-the-help-of-ai-are-reshaping-how-researchers-understand-substance-use/ -
The Conversation: Reddit and TikTok – with the help of AI – are reshaping how researchers understand substance use . “Today, millions of people openly discuss their experiences with drugs online, creating a vast collection of raw narratives about drug use. As a doctoral student in information science with a background in public health, I use this material to better understand how people who use […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/15/the-conversation-reddit-and-tiktok-with-the-help-of-ai-are-reshaping-how-researchers-understand-substance-use/ -
2600: The 2600 Voice BBS Archives, Hope_16 Videos, And A Shower Curtain. “For those who don’t know, the 2600 Voice BBS was a unique hacker bulletin board system run by 2600 in the late 1990s. Its purpose was to act like a regular BBS, only with voice instead of text. We’ve been putting this archive together for years and it’s a real time capsule of the hacker world. There are literally […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/13/2600-the-2600-voice-bbs-archives-hope_16-videos-and-a-shower-curtain/ -
Maybe Comments _Should_ Explain 'What'
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/what-comments/
#HackerNews #Maybe #Comments #Should #Explain #What #Comments #HackerNews #Discussion #UserEngagement #OnlineCommunity
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New York Times: She Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Then She Ghosted It.. This link goes to a gift article. “The 29-year-old woman who created the ‘MyBoyfriendIsAI’ community on Reddit isn’t dating (or sexting) her A.I. boyfriend anymore. She found something more fulfilling.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/25/new-york-times-she-fell-in-love-with-chatgpt-then-she-ghosted-it/ -
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
https://disassociated.com/personal-blogs-back-niche-blogs-next/
#HackerNews #PersonalBlogs #NicheBlogs #BloggingRevival #OnlineCommunity #DigitalContent
