What’s wrong with having a choice?

I guess some us are old and prefer how things used to be. Before curated feeds, awards and emoji reactions. As I said in another comment: the old internet never went away, it was just forgotten. And now we care more about how it is presented rather than the content itself. I think we have gotten so used to being spoon fed content that it feels weird for some people to have a choice. A turd with glitter and a bowtie is still a turd at the end of the day.

Lemmy and Matrix are great but have you tried hosting a Lemmy instance? It’s an absolute pain in the ass for everyone involved right now and Matrix has it’s own issues. They both work fine but they don’t “just work”.

The development of old protocols or technology didn’t seize just because something new came along.

So leave the ghost town? Plenty of servers and channels that are very active. My point is that the “old internet” never really went away, it was just forgotten.

There are still places where the content isn’t in some bullshit feed format with 100s of braindead comments from people who didn’t read the article written by a bot.

A few hours ago maybe? Smaller niche forums still exist. The users are the same as 20 years ago and the quality/knowledge in the threads is still miles better than anything else.

IRC and usenet is still around.

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Why?