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
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
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