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.