The other approach, nowadays, is to get a fine-tuned or abliterated LLM and just have it do the moderation/curation work associated with a site, although that gets you into an arms race with spammers. I've been playing with the idea of making imageboards readable again by having Qwen or something scrape threads and tag posts with user-specified filterable categories like "porn", "bait", "shilling", and so on, defined and with examples, on a backend server. A browser extension would then fetch the results and collapse posts that users don't want to see. Planning to try it with one of the archiving sites and put together a prototype some time.

I feel you, but I worry about the implications of that. Our side of the internet was birthed, ultimately, from the clever hackerman autists of our day making deliberate, paternalistic outreach to normalfags. "Redpill the normies" gets derided by some people today, but it was a sincere, pure sentiment that had results. Young lads discovering edgy anime memes and Hitler for the first time. The regime chasing laughing teenagers across the internet. Any group that doesn't try to expand and rescue new blood from the carcass of the internet will calcify, and become bitter and repetitive. There's countless islands out there of people who thought they found the ultimate decentralized private comms solution, and are now just sort of aging away with a couple dozen isolated accounts that occasionally see their posts.

Absolute chads. I wonder if an anonymously-hosted Tor version is in the cards. I've long thought that easing normies into that ecosystem is a useful thing, which makes future censorship efforts harder. 2014-17 was so much fun because of the mass of smart, savvy normalfags who suddenly had a whole new world laid out before them, and we should aim to recreate that.