Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Forums lifespans weren’t all that much anyways.
The real downside to everything being on StackOverflow, Reddit, Discord, etc is that it has made it easier for big tech to run their shady data collection and analysis schemes including AI Training.
Most sites that were hosted before 2010 are gone now.
I hosted a forum for guilds in several games I played over the years. I had mine up from 2005-2019 but my board’s php version got way behind the host‘a and it no longer works. Someday I will find someone to help me fix it, or start a new one.
Most sites that were hosted before 2010 are gone now.
yeah, because virtually all communities moved to Discord or Reddit.
tfm@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Couldn’t this be much different if “web 2.0” hadn’t taken over?
Many of them are still alive but don’t get the exposure they deserve because of centralized networks.
Right. But what can we do to get people to switch to the Fediverse and put an end to this?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably not, even if you have time to maintain your site by updating it occasionally then it still falls upon individuals to fund the hosting services and hold the domain name. Even Hexbear’s domain wound up for auction a little while back because they forgot to pay their bills.
Since Net Neutrality has been off and on enforced, it’s generally been considered illegal to block, hide, or throttle traffic, but I agree those small sites didn’t get as much search indexing unless they paid for ads.
tfm@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
To my knowledge net neutrality only covers internet providers and not search engines or other platforms.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your precise wording was “centralized networks” which I interpreted as the ISP providing traffic between you and other services.