Lawyers, platform moderation, and SEO have wiped it out. What’s left is boring drivel whose only purpose is to sell you a product or a course or avoid a lawsuit. I realize some have moved to private groups and there are still sites if you look hard enough. But is that enough?
Federation feels like the right place to bring that culture back rather than let it die or has that ship sailed?
What kicked this off was a desire to scrape Facebook groups to build a dataset. I just wanted to play around with different things to see patterns or sentiment analyses.
Seems like there was this shift or bifurcation online about a decade or so ago. Information was everywhere. Now it isn’t.