You can get some of this with a pi hole/vpn setup. There’s actually a really nice one you can get as a droplet (basically a virtual machine) on Digital Ocean.

https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/pi-hole-vpn

Once it’s up and running it can be a full tunnel vpn or just a dns solution (also over a split tunnel vpn).

Might not give the full tracking protection exactly but will kill most ads.

I ran my own instance for a little bit, and I thought if you had servers you set up to “trust” (I forget the exact wording but there’s a field for it in admin settings) then bans can come in that way.

I could be completely wrong of course. ☺️

The other thing that I don’t quite get about it is, you can come across the “fragmented communities” either through random chance or consciously seeking them out, and just subscribe to them. Now you can participate in multiple communities from your home instance.

I get people are lazy and just want to have the stuff they like shoved in their face, but IMHO you get a much better result when you have to put a little skin in the game.

It also discourages some level of shitposting because shitposters have to work just as hard to find the places to make their dumb jokes and in my experience most of those types are not going out of their way to do that.

Love this idea! Please share if/when you think it’s ready.

Laughs in BBS

or

Laughs in Newgroups