The closest thing to this right now (other than informally non-commercial spaces like Gemini) is Amateur Radio, where it's illegal to transact commerce or to advertise.
@RL_Dane@phf I was thinking more "BBS to BBS network" myself. Basically only allowing trusted systems to talk to other trusted systems and deliberately excluding the vast majority of people with minimal barriers.
@Longplay_Games@RL_Dane I dig this in theory but I think it pretty quickly runs in the old "reputation problem"? Just because I know X and think X is wonderful doesn't mean I'll think Y is wonderful even though X thinks Y is just great. 🤔 So just like in the fediverse, me "trusting" X has to be revocable which means anyone connected to me via X will disappear when I remove X (unless they have another indirect connection to me). If everybody is fine with that: yay. If not: resentment central.
@phf@RL_Dane That's part of why the Fedi is my refuge at the moment.
I have been on the fediverse since Oct 04, 2016 and encountered a pretty minimal amount of spam and hate speech.
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