To re-iterate, every place gets their own separate room. You must be physically in a place to join their chatroom.

  • tehmics@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 days ago

    Some of you never opened Telegram’s “local” section, and it shows.

    It’s all just sex and drugs

  • solrize@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    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.

    https://wakaba.c3.cx/shii/shiichan

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    2 days ago

    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?”

  • Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    2 days ago

    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.