[ljm]

I think there'll be space for curated forges at some point but they're going to live on the margins like most self-hosted repos do.

You could solve it with tech by using ideas from radicle and tangled but the slop is ultimately a social problem, so you just have invite-only forges where the source of the invite is also held accountable (lobsters style).

If you want a high quality internet experience these days you have to step out of the mainstream.