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Gamification, group think, mob voting and censoring dissenters exist in other areas that you cannot escape. GitHub is an example.

Mobile service providers outsourced their customer "service" to open forums.

Mailing lists have been replaced by "Discourse" or unsearchable Telegram and Gitter channels. Nothing has a history any longer.

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I don't quite get how you perceive GitHub as toxic social environment, but to each their own... All I sometimes get is a rejected PR, which is definitely not toxic but just the reality of things.

I get your grief with Mailing lists though. The forced move from lists to web forums was pretty much a downer for me. Actually, I left every community which did that. I am too old to browser a bunch of web forums each day. If the new kids like that, let 'em play with eachother...

Discourse or Discord? Discourse is nicely searchable and in many ways more user-friendly and sustainable than mailing lists.

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