The internet no longer exists, and replace by separate unmoderated chat-rooms for each city/town/village; What does your chatroom look like? What do you think other chatrooms will look like?
The internet no longer exists, and replace by separate unmoderated chat-rooms for each city/town/village; What does your chatroom look like? What do you think other chatrooms will look like?
To re-iterate, every place gets their own separate room. You must be physically in a place to join their chatroom.
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TrueMAGAPatriot67: Looking 4 cry5tal meet me bhind dumpster at wendys by home depot
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Some of you never opened Telegram's "local" section, and it shows.
It's all just sex and drugs
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Unmoderated?
Spam and shitposts top to bottom.
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We have a local meshtastic network set up for just this scenario. There's not s lot of chatter, though.
Telegram used to have these local public chat rooms that anyone could see or join. The common topics were:
- Pokémon go
- Offers to sell sex
- Offers to sell drugs
But I guess Pokémon go is out if there's no internets.
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I bet things would pick up in a no internet scenario.
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People selling drugs
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Cities' chatrooms would probably look like faceook city groups atm, with at least a little diversity. But rural town chatrooms would be filled with racism and propaganda, and it would be a pure echochamber.
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Maybe like 4chan. No usernames, just a big mix, to make surveillance more difficult. There might be some ephemeral tracking (data retained no more than 5 minutes) to separate the participants in threaded conversations and to throttle stuff like spam floods. With luck the locality requirement would be enough to stop it turning from a 4chan-like cesspit. I didn't know about imageboard systems when they were happening and before they became awful, but they sound in retrospect like they were cool as hell, better than what we have now.
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There are a few Fediverse projects trying to recreate them: https://delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-apps/#media-hosting
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LOL this is from ChatGPT in my city:
A local city - Community Chatroom
Thread: The Great Potato Rain of 2025 - What is happening?
FresnoLocal99: "Okay, I’m just gonna say it. Is anyone else seeing potatoes fall from the sky right now? Am I losing my mind?" (Attached image: A potato bouncing off their car windshield)
TaterLover23: "YES! It’s like someone opened a potato floodgate! I’ve got mashed potatoes coming out of my garden hose! 😱"
SpudnikFresno: "I just got hit in the head by one while I was watering my plants. I thought a bird dropped a rock on me. Are we sure this isn’t some sort of bizarre Fresno tradition I missed?"
FresnoLocal99: "I honestly thought I was being attacked by a bird with a really bad aim. I’ve got a potato lodged in my gutters now. How am I supposed to explain this to my neighbors?"
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Kinda sounds like you are describing AOL