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If your website attracts such elements perhaps there's a reason?
The demo is attracting the HN crowd and it’s getting… well, let’s just say this crowd is about as good as it gets online.
I made something similar last year: A p2p chat popup (that sits on bottom right of the page as a bubble) that allows all visitors to chat with each other. It had simple keyword based moderation in-built (can be easily bypassed though). Was planning to add github oauth to get a known identity and persistent messaging so visitors can chat with each other across sites. Instead of a webmaster adding script to their site,…
It sounds like a nice idea, but probably only one of those things that work only once at scale - with hundreds of millions of pages, you will only meet others on the most common ones unless the extension is already very popular?
Site-local chat was meant to be the default way. But, was not restricted to that. People could keep whitelisted list of sites that they are open to get pings/DM's from.
I was still not able to figure out the privacy-focused, and local, interest matching part since it was meant to be p2p (without any server storage), and local storage can easily be tweaked.
If this was solved, my plan then was to automatically suggest people who may have similar interests depending on the sites they browse, for how long, and the messages they generally send.
Kinda like tinder, but, you don't have to sign-up and install no app.
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The same reason people get shadowbanned. If they know they are banned they will attempt to work around it.
One day I'll find out that I've been shadow banned from HN, and all of you were bots all along, lolz
I just took a look at the page's own 'town square'. At the moment, it's largely full of people saying offensive things for the sake of it.
Within about 300ms I thought “moderation is going to be a problem”.
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After having been a moderator for a number of communities over the years—BBCs in the 90s, niche forums during the 00s & 10s, Reddit boards in the 20s—I’ve come to believe that running shadow services where disruptive individuals can comingle may be the best way to handle this. The advent of LLMs really opens the door to shunting off these “community members “ who’d rather contribute in misanthropic ways for the lulz…
But why not kick them out? Why bother with a shadow site for them?
Love it, also love that there's one HN visitor just hanging out typing "dick and balls" over and over again. That's unmoderated anonymous public squares for you