Thread 514991204

These were the best forms of social media back then. Posts and threads were easy to follow and everything was organized. I never understood the hype behind places like reddit or twitter

>>514991204 (OP)
>never understood the hype behind places like reddit or twitter
#metoo

Ease of access and network effects

>>514991204 (OP)
I used to post on the Roadrunner forum

>>514991204 (OP)
Easy and fast like this place. Instant grat.

>>514991204 (OP)
It's impossible to find anything on the internet by just "surfing" anymore.

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(((Discord)))

>>514991204 (OP)
>These were the best forms of social media back then
if that was true they would have survived, knowledge hubs and discord replaced them

>>514991204 (OP)
Apps seek to replace the internet as we know it. The iPad generation wasn’t taught to type in social media platforms, they were taught to download apps from the App Store

>>514991673
wnat do you want anon? i mostly find what i want.

>>514991204 (OP)
U aware brah?

There are still tons of active forums.

>>514991820
Gates was talking about having all programs and stuff accessed remotely and not hosted locally back in the early 90s. apps on phones and those shitty tablets and stuff are getting us there. so much is usable just through a browsers already.

forums were good from the late 90s into the late 2010s, then face book and stuff seemed to be where everyone was. hopefully forums will make a comeback. the popularity of this place and a few others is a good sign

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This thread is anti-Semitic

>>514991849
In the golden era of the internet it was common to provide links to other websites.
>look at these cool sites with cool shit on them!
and then those sites would link to other sites and so on.
That culture simply doesn't exist anymore.
In fact most sites are now ran by some giga corp trying to retain users for as long as possible.
In addition search engines are just bloated with AI-slop now. If you search for anything 9/10 sites will be AI.

>>514992141
get what you;re saying. less links being spidered and so on. but i still mostly find what i want one way or another. more specific search engines often do better than the huge top level ones.

Crazy trans and black activists became mods in the forums I were on and they banned anyone who didn't perfectly align with their politics.

Trannies

>>514991204 (OP)
Jeets. They've ruined all forms of electronic communication and they quickly encroaching on us in the physical realm as well. We must stop this menace.

Indians are scaring off the humans

>>514992777
this too. digits confirm power mad mods

You fuckers need to resurrect Usenet
>unmoderated groups
>impossible to censor
of course (((they))) had to coral you into their nigger cattle platforms.

It was honestly jeets, ai, and google.

Google ads took over the internet. Google favors forums using google ads and places others at search result 1,893,047.
This made them all move to google ads.
But google still censors and favors certain results.
Jeets and automated bots started leaving retarded posts everywhere.
'I too made 10,000 a month on my butt at home with little effort following these steps" type crap. Requoring constant moderation.
When life was inexpensive tons of people with free time became moderators, now less do so.

Censorship. Going through the 2010s made everything identity polotics, cancel culture, and extremes on politics.
So forums censored whoever the opponents of the latest identity politic fad was and honest communication ground to a halt.

Don't forget the lawyers, suing everyone for opinion posts by members, requiring censorship, or suing over posting media or news stories because some media owned it. Can't discuss most of what people want to discuss and current events so easily.

Then anonymity went away. Due to rise of social media and also because the comment advertisement bots (often from India) forced everything to require an account and eliminated anonymous posting.

Social media also made the person the star rather than the topic. So a shift in chasing popularity instead of chasing communication and knowledge. Twitter or facebook was better for that.
The internet went from adults discussing topics to highschool type popularity contests.

>>514991974
This. Almost every specialty hobby has an Internet forum going back decades. Reddit took some forums down but those were more general interest. Reddit's promise was forums, but you didn't have to pay for hosting or do any admin. Many people took the bait and rolled their operation into Reddit.

OTOH hand such things like Forth and Lisp Usenet groups are more active than Reddit and always have been. No forums replaced Usenet, and no Reddit subs got their users.

>>514994088
It's active just join the party. It's more active now than any time in the last 20 years.

Plebbitors are so consistently wrong about everything I have to assume it's malicious and not just stupidity. God I hate them so much

>>514991204 (OP)
I was thinking of starting up a phpbb forum but somebody told me all the old software is so full of security holes it's impossible to run.

>>514995128
Just do Usenet. There is already a Usenet group for your interest. Start posting there.

>>514995012
i dont think anything can kill usenet tbqfh

>>514991204 (OP)
Because people get a little 'buzz' when they have an account, and get lots of likes, and can 'flex' their imaginary internet points. Also, the comment orders on forums are usually completely linear, from oldest to newest, regardless of how many likes each comment gets. With stuff like Twitter and Reddit, the highest upvoted comment rises to the top of the thread, providing a 'buzz' for the commentor.

It's all about internet points, in short

I do discord, forums, telegram and this place. Only facefag and instafag for marketing my businesses.

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Zoomers. They're a legitimate plague.

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and some of them were the best places to go to find niche information.

>>514991673
>It's impossible to find anything on the internet by just "surfing" anymore.

Google, etc. is censoring most of the internet now.

DNS gonna DNS.

#antifa and related.

>>514995077
They are npcs. They are repeater bots. They don't have their own opinions and thus can't argue rationally. That's why they short circuit and turn violent when the logical fallacies in their arguments are brought to their conscious attention.

They get especially mad when you call them brainwashed. They are golem. Like women they will follow the dominant voice in their society.

RIP to Waffles.fm. I miss those niggers like you wouldn't believe

I hate how frustrating it's become to even register on a fourm. So many have locked themselves down so you can't browse without registering, search engines don't seem to crawl them properly anymore, they block most common throw away emails, I don't want to use my actual email, and when when I finally make or dust off and existing junk email for the account they just end up pruning it for not posting and therfore being "inactive" anyway. I'm just looking for info and am never gonna post without lurking for ages and ages. If you prune accounts like that you're only ever gonna get retarded new users who get banned quickly for shoving their foot in their mouth posting without understanding.

>>514991204 (OP)
>tfw ADISC(if you know, you know) is closing this month
I blame the rise of social media.

>>514996148
yeah, its hard. lots of filters and reg needs personal review. ive tried on one i want to post with and keep getting rejected. everyones locked down because of trolls and bots. i kind of understand really. hopefully things will move on from this and get back to something more like normal. but many forums still allow running searches on them..or you can use other search engines to seach their domain.

>>514991204 (OP)
Reddit and the fact that every forum began selling out and trying to either charge or monetize their members or completely sold out to big companies that wanted to do that