Someone had a good idea last week about making a kindness post.
Fundamentally, it is important to build communities and institutions through affirming actions and efforts. A forum devoted solely to bitching and complaining will never work, and could potentially toxify (though in our case I doubt it would be too bad because you all are capable of self-regulating).
That being said, I like the idea of making one post every week that is specifically devoted to, not simply good news, but good affirmations to each other.
Please post positive things in this particular thread. Also, feel free to ping other users with compliments, kindness, and affirmations.
Think of it as a morale building exercise!
I 100% agree with the need to build community and institutions. I think voice chat would help a lot doing that. I think many of us have stayed away from voice chat over very justified concerns regarding discord. Both a fear of getting banned, and a fear of eavesdropping.
A matrix server would give us (voice) chat without reducing us to sharecroppers on discord land.
I think gaming servers would be optimal because it would be purely exclusive to local communities that you can create high-trust environments around. It's too decentralized to be managed, and therefore infiltrated, effectively.