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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

>>27833
You 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.

>>27833
I agree with you except on the uboacord part, that place is cursed and something else entirely different in both userbase and feel. I think a lot of the actual userbase here just moved onto adjacent boards/sites since yume nikki you can only discuss so much what hasn't already been said. That and fan games have been kind of grinding to a halt. YNO and the adjacent projects have keep a match lit, even in the jp side of things (I see JP streamers and vtubers play 2kki online constantly). I do unforunately agree that discord and chat apps kind of ruined the internet alongside other consolidations like twitter, instagram, tiktok, etc. but I think we're on the brink of a web revival soon since these sites like twitter keep fumbling and fucking up (especially in regards to pushing AI trash nobody wants) and people are starting to realize the answer isn't more social media alternatives like bluesky or rednote but small forums and communities. I see a lot of small forums and imageboards springing up lately and gaining success and it brings me a small glimmer of optimism and hope. and god i hope the rw irony/com/sharty/edgesphere shit dies out because that shit has worn out its welcome eons ago and to be honest I've never welcomed it at all just got used to it. death to irony

>>27854
>people are starting to realize the answer isn't more social media alternatives like bluesky or rednote but small forums and communities
Who 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.

internet died in 2012 or about that time
just kidding
you have been around bad places i guess
>discord
i think that it is in fact evil
both posters and communities there are something else
i blame the corporation for doing something wrong heh

>>27907
the web had more "soul" back when everything was decentralized. Gorgeous pic btw

>>27854
>I think we're on the brink of a web revival soon
I 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

The Matrix is biting back. Ouch.

Neo was right…

2020 was the start of a lousy decade…

>>28036
gonna get worse before it gets better

>>28061
2025 looking bad still

>>28471
too much is happening…