No.27833
sure, though I would place that date a few years earlier, around 2018? maybe even 2016
and yeah, I would blame Discord for a lot of the degradation of the internet
before Discord, forums and other communities were much more popular, each with its own unique soul
now everything has a Discord, and even if each server is different, it's still the same platform, with the same layout, same features and options, just different emotes
you know what I mean? a forum was different from a text chat, was different from an imageboard, was different from an in-game meta chat
and each forum was different from each other forum, had different aesthetics, its own memes and history, etc., again each was unique
the saddest thing was seeing forums slowly die as members moved to Discord, forming in-groups and even mocking users who stayed on the original platforms
hell, even uboa has a Discord, and I bet it's not as active as it used to be because I'm sure much of the activity has shifted to the Discord
No.27837
>>27833You picked the wrong urn to cry into. Uboa's Discord lives its own life and the majority of the board users do not even interact with it. With a few notable exceptions.
No.27883
>>27854>people are starting to realize the answer isn't more social media alternatives like bluesky or rednote but small forums and communitiesWho exactly? whenever a social media site fucks up people threaten with moving to a clone of it like the two you mentioned. And even then the majority stay on the original site, all of the artist i follow on Twitter have a Bsky but they either rarely post on it or posted like 3 drawings back in 2023 and went back to Twitter.
No.27914
>>27907the web had more "soul" back when everything was decentralized. Gorgeous pic btw
No.27953
>>27854>I think we're on the brink of a web revival soonI have hope that you are correct, I'd love to return to form and see sites like this and other smaller scale communities succeed more
No.27995
The Matrix is biting back. Ouch.
No.28007
Neo was right…
No.28036
2020 was the start of a lousy decade…
No.28061
>>28036gonna get worse before it gets better
No.28471
>>280612025 looking bad still
No.28484
>>28471too much is happening…
No.29257
someone should nuke Uboachan discord again, it would be funny.
No.29258
>>29257the fact that this place has a discord is fucking cringe
No.29261
>>29258It should have never been made, it has nothing to do with the website, its users' behavior can be wrongly connected to this community and it has bled drama into the boards before, it's absolute cancer.
No.29266
>>29261Eh, when we have deviantart tier, moderator-endorsed discussions about urotsukis tit size I really have a hard time believing the discord is any worse
No.29287
>>29266It has normies, so it is worse
No.29288
>>29287i'm pretty sure there are normies here too
No.29289
>>29288Maybe but they're not really active here.
No.29362
I miss Desuchan. I miss home.
Glad to see at least one of the sister sites is up and kicking even if I never came here much
Desuchans gone
420chan is gone
7clams just isn't the same
/f/lash no longer works and cannot be posted to
Most of the internet has turned into a filthy shithole run by algorithms and ego
>>27833don't forget everyone and their mother is a "content creator" now. Make youtube videos? You need a discord to cultivate "your community". Vtuber? Content creation through consumption, buy more and more and more to keep up your "model" (your identity), selling yourself as a product. I miss content creation for the love of the game. Make a funny gif and drop it on an imageboard and who knows where it will end up or if anyone will care. no metrics or analytics to give a shit about