Today is Wednesday the 11796th of September 1993.

Eternal September came up in conversation today about how users don't do effort posts any longer, they just want to leave funny comments below reaction videos and then swipe to the next one.

Anyone got any good effort post oases I can lurk and help out in?

I think discussion duration is a big factor. For sites like HN, there is little point in high-effort replies, since no one will be around to see them.

Small communities. Usenet ~1990 was ~1m people with access, most at either universities or tech-oriented companies or government labs.

Amongst more general discussion platforms, HN, Metafilter, possibly Tildes.net.

Anything large is by definition popular and common, both terms with freighted meanings. The more so if they're advertising-driven.

At least Gemini (protocol) users are basically immune to this because of the obscurity of the system

Discord is still good as long as its a small server.