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reddit is dying twitter is dying tumblr is next as people move over here in response and the corporate side of the company starts drooling at the prospect of EVEN MORE MONEY so they make staff change the website to be shittier and more like the dying websites. whats next? fireside gathering at my house where we pass the posting stick around that indicates youre allowed to make a post with words that come out of your mouth
lets go back to
gneocitieseven tho it does *also* function like a social media (you can follow people and comment), at least it’s removed from algorithm, and you can design and create your own space for whatever purpose
though yeah, the death of social media is scary and shitty as many of us artists make living off it, but we all need to make an effort to take the internet back. connect with people (tho discord is also being shit now), make your own site at the outskirts of the internet…
idk what the answer is except to start building our own sites and forums. i’d genuinely love to see forums make a comeback. making one isnt hard – there are free host sites, and while i was a teen and the forums were all the rage, i had my own little forums where people would come and write/create/roleplay. ive been thinking of making one again, tho promoting it is hard, since people prefer social media these days.
in any case, we need to move from the social media ruled by the corps and algorithms and take the internet back. tumblr is currently the best site, but even it won’t last forever. all we have is what we make.
and yeah, this is really showing me how fragile the internet is. even neocities/indie forums can have servers shut down, but it seems to be at least more durable than social media which is subject to changes from the money-hungry capitalists at every turn, based on their whims.
it’s wild to me that the internet is entering an apocalyptic era which wasn’t something any of us growing up in 2000es when internet was at its peak with innovation and information exchange could imagine
start making zines, organize, make communities, make non-social websites. if you’re an artist, make your own website and start a mailing list. make multiple backups, make different e-mails, save everything, get an external hard drive. start downloading sites which you enjoy (i can’t say how many sites i loved have gone down). save pictures, texts, everything. information is disappearing.
Currently working on my own self hosted fanfiction archive.
I really suggest everyone take at least some of the ideas here.
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