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Post by Thai Ladyboy on Sept 6, 2022 22:24:52 GMT -6
I'm glad I found this forum again. It's been a decade or so since I last posted? I don't know what happened but I stopped getting notifications a long time ago but these past few days I suddenly got notifications of new threads. And was reminded about the existence of this forum.
So nice to see that it's still alive. Old school forums are a rarity these days. There's something about old school forums that is lost on facebook discussions, twitter threads, and reddit posts. I mean, it's odd that social media was designed to be a more personalized channel for communication, but every single social media community feels fake. You're not discussing ideas and opinions with other people on social media - you're only communicating with people's idealized versions of themselves. Forums like this are a lot more anonymous, but somehow it feels more sincere.
I don't know, it's a cliche but Big Tech kinda ruined online communication. I can't place an exact point when it happened, but the big one for me was when IMDB shuttered their discussion boards. It was a treasure trove of information that was lost to time - and their excuse is that server costs are untenable (which is BS. It's not significantly more expensive to host a database for that large of a forum compared to hosting the multimedia content on IMDB itself.).
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Post by mh on Sept 6, 2022 22:40:41 GMT -6
I don't know, it's a cliche but Big Tech kinda ruined online communication. I can't place an exact point when it happened, but the big one for me was when IMDB shuttered their discussion boards. It was a treasure trove of information that was lost to time - and their excuse is that server costs are untenable (which is BS. It's not significantly more expensive to host a database for that large of a forum compared to hosting the multimedia content on IMDB itself.).
i didn't know they did that. but not all that surprised.
so real film fans can't vent or whatever. typical i guess.
ohhhh, amazon! okay i get it.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Sept 8, 2022 7:39:29 GMT -6
Wecome back, neilencio!
I noticed a lot of places have closed their message boards and comment sections over the years. It's like they're afraid of opinions. It really pisses me off when news sites do it.
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Post by Doc Quantum on Sept 10, 2022 13:23:42 GMT -6
Good to see ya, Neilencio. I put my Facebook account on hold indefinitely. Social media tends to amplify the worst opinions. Message boards at least tend to be a bit more focused on stuff that interests, instead of mostly click bait headlines meant to get people mad without actually reading the articles. I actually think we as a species have gone backwards in many ways due to social media.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Sept 14, 2022 19:06:50 GMT -6
I miss the old days with the internet in the 90s and 2000s when it was like the wild west.
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Post by Thai Ladyboy on Sept 15, 2022 22:48:20 GMT -6
It's because corporations finally found a way to turn people into products, and sneakily did it under the guise of democratizing content creation. During the 90s to 2000s, people who published content on the Internet had to really work hard at it. This doesn't always lead to quality, but it at least ensured that only the really committed was given a platform. The signal to noise ratio is ideal.
When blogging platforms happened, followed by social media, just about any one who wants to was given a voice. Then streaming and video content happened, which further funneled people into a specific mode of communication. And then progressiveness became trendy, and everybody leaned hard into politics. It's so very easy to find something to hate on the Internet these days, and so easy to find other people that share your hatred. All the while, big tech and governments are having a field day with how easy it is to make people choose sides and declare war on each other.
It's probably never going to get better, short of a solar flare knocking out all communication all over the globe for a lengthy period of time.
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