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Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. (www-xataka-com.translate.goog)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What are we going to do about it?

Sorry for the Google Translate Link. An easy alternative is much appreciated.

Edit: thanks to @[email protected] for this translation alternative: https://translate.kagi.com/translate/https://www.xataka.com/servicios/foros-internet-estan-desapareciendo-porque-ahora-todo-reddit-discord-eso-preocupante

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Couldn’t this be much different if “web 2.0” hadn’t taken over?

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.

Many of them are still alive but don’t get the exposure they deserve because of centralized networks.

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Net neutrality

To my knowledge net neutrality only covers internet providers and not search engines or other platforms.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Your precise wording was "centralized networks" which I interpreted as the ISP providing traffic between you and other services. Perhaps you meant monopoly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

No I mean the big social Networks with centralized management. Like Reddit, Facebook,...