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Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
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Forums lifespans weren't all that much anyways. Most sites that were hosted before 2010 are gone now.
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.
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?
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.
To my knowledge net neutrality only covers internet providers and not search engines or other platforms.
Your precise wording was "centralized networks" which I interpreted as the ISP providing traffic between you and other services. Perhaps you meant monopoly?
No I mean the big social Networks with centralized management. Like Reddit, Facebook,...