i'm absolutely not the first person to notice this but there's something to be said about the chaos of modern web trying to fit every single person into a melting pot of a few conglomerated social medias vs. the old days of endless minutely specific divisions of subforums
was it better? absolutely not, there was just as much people fighting over words on a screen back then. the entire world will hardly ever coexist peacefully, solving that is the billion dollar question.
but it sure helped keep things a little more insulated against major crises
i don't know, maybe i'm just waxing nostalgic. i host a queer-oriented web1.0 forum but it hardly ever sees any traffic at all, which is a shame
i don't like the current model. i wish we could turn away from it but everybody else is here, where else would i go to talk to anyone?
if you're interested, this is the forum: https://forums.transbian.love
new posts always get forwarded to our discord server so new activity will always be noticed by at least me
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