What #AboveTopSecret actually was
#AboveTopSecret ( #ATS ) founded in the late #1990s was one of the first large-scale, #user-driven #information #commons on the #internet
Before algorithms. Before feeds. Before “trust & safety” departments.
It had:
#chronological #threads
#long-form #posts
#user #reputation via #consistency not clout
#brutal #peer #review
#memory
People didn’t come to be #validated
They came to #argue & #archive and connect dots. And I miss that. A lot.