Legit, what's stopping us from using this forum more?

[Ladios]

I'm going to say this as constructively as possible. I have no earthly idea what you're talking about.

TLDR? most attempts decentralize the internet since the rise of FB/Twitter/etc have been too elitist or niche to really be effective, but many of the tools that allowed us to create our communities in the past, forums and personal websites dedicated to specific subjects, are still available if we are willing to put in the work to avoid larger server providers like Amazon Web Services.

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[Epicduke]

Yes PLEASE self-host your own websites and forums again instead of making everyone funnel into your gay little discord server that can't be archived, indexed, or even searched through properly in-client

[ultimamax]

snep

i can try to explain this for others - mastodon lemmy and peertube were all linux nerd attempts to make open source/"free software" alternatives to twitter, reddit and youtube respectively. none of them took off because only linux type people ever sign up for those

Yes PLEASE self-host your own websites and forums again instead of making everyone funnel into your gay little discord server that can't be archived, indexed, or even searched through properly in-client

i have always kinda wondered why this seems to have died, did people just get too used to free VC slush money for everything in the 2010s? self hosting isn't that much more expensive now is it?

[Dr.Block]

TLDR? most attempts decentralize the internet since the rise of FB/Twitter/etc have been too elitist or niche to really be effective, but many of the tools that allowed us to create our communities in the past, forums and personal websites dedicated to specific subjects, are still available if we are willing to put in the work to avoid larger server providers like Amazon Web Services.

Ok that makes sense. Agree. I think most people legitimately are not aware that they can host their own website. The corpos didn't even have to take control of the internet, they just had to convince people that they did.

[Pixel]

because everyone here sucks

i mean literally this

[mod-man]

i have always kinda wondered why this seems to have died, did people just get too used to free VC slush money for everything in the 2010s? self hosting isn't that much more expensive now is it?

i cant speak for every community, but i will say zelda OOT (and really all n64) modding used to be an extremely niche thing in 2009 and it was split between like, 3 different smf forums that were barely active. every key user to get information from was on them and some of them even had their own sites, but it took weeks to get answers to even the most basic questions. as soon as everyone caught onto discord that stuff boomed. the niche early console modding community has objectively flourished because everyones in such close contact now