The emergence of social media has destroyed all the small communities to standardize communication and information.
It’s a bit of a digital version of rural exodus. And since 2017/2018, I’ve noticed that everything that, in my opinion, represented the internet has disappeared.
I’ve known Lemmy for a few hours and I feel like I’m back in the early spirit of the internet.
Forums are dead, replaced by unsearchable fb and discord and searchable reddit. Discord being completely unsuitable and other two being propaganda platforms and most users use them to farm e-fame.
And nobody agrees to drop them for any reason either. A few years back entire fb sized sites were dropped and replaced over the smallest of infractions.