Man that is cool to hear, I check out that place niggasin.space and holy is it something a little to much for my taste lol. And i got a dark sense of humor but jezz. I find it funny I found this place by someone mentioned it in a old Kotakuinaction post. Crazy to think I heard of gamergate back when I was young I think 2014 or a little later but now that I am older, it crazy that stuff I heard back and here I came and see it. I have to say and I wonder this and
@Arnox I like to hear your opinion and to the others. When let say old Twitter or facebook when all the shadowbanning and such happened, how come folks never say make thier own forums and sites and leave for a lack of better treams to burn? I know it be hard to start your own site but how come no one said hey come check out here or hey here this cool forum to start anew. Is it the culture or am I looking at it from how the internet worked back then?
In order to understand the exodus from forums, we need to go ALLLLL the way back to the days of Myspace, Reddit, and Twitter in 2006. Back then, we were all innocent of the potential harm these websites could cause and everyone was hyped up for the next new site. With Myspace, we found we were all socializing to a level we never had before, and with Reddit, the upvote/downvote system seemed like an elegant democratic way to sort out "good" content from the "bad" content. And then Twitter hit the scene and provided our first hit of short-form rousing snippets of content. Everything on Twitter was fast, sensational, and easily digestible. All three sites were addictive for their own separate reasons. Later, Facebook would take the role of Myspace, but it didn't really matter either way in the end as the sites were, for the most part, identical. Even if Facebook had never existed, Myspace would have just grown to be what Facebook is now. Same shit, different site.
After that, we all know what happened next. Facebook became a privacy nightmare and often started divisions in friends and family. Reddit's voting system turned into sheer Tyranny of the Majority and abuse of the system was (and is still) rampant. And Twitter was the junk food of the internet, making everyone dumber, angrier, and more cynical. And that's not even taking into account all the bots and scams that ran around like mad on these sites plus the ridiculous amount of corruption of the site staff for all three sites. But... Why didn't forums come back and save the day? Why didn't people quickly start going back to them? Well, there's multiple reasons for this. If you asked people back then why they didn't go back to forums even though they were beginning to see the issues inherent in these forms of popular social media, they'll say (ignorantly) that the sites weren't perfect, but they were better than forums. Forums were OLD. Uncool. Your grand-daddy's social media.
But then, inevitably, the problems started getting even worse. Search engine effectiveness started getting worse. And then people woke up even more to the problems at large. They had accepted things they didn't know were incredibly bad for them in a multitude of ways. But by that point, popular social media had long since hit critical mass, and stopping all that damn momentum is something that is still in progress even to this day. People ARE beginning to come back to forums again, but you also have to realize that this may take a long while before popular social media begins to see major chunks being taken out of their userbase by forums.
Extra credit:
https://intosanctuary.com/index.php...all-of-us-now-need-the-most-is-gone-arnox.19/
