From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    ah yes, the age old tale of “the internet sucks and people are stupid”

    If you’ve ever tried hosting a web based solution you’ll know exactly what i mean. The entirety of web hosting is a disaster. The entire mountain of web code is a nightmare, and the collection of website based frameworks do nothing more than burn electricity and man hours to create a fucking button on a screen.

    as for discord, i haven’t puzzled that one out yet, i don’t understand. Probably lazy developers and the community aspect, it’s a forum, but free, and worse. And now you can shitpost with random people you don’t even know!

    Personally, i believe that enshittifcation is an inevitability. You put somebody in a room with something, and when you take them out, that thing will somehow have gotten more complex, and thus probably worse.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Discord, at one point, was better than a lot of other app on the market, and they were one of the first where you could just create an account and join any group, for free.

      It became the standard, and now we’re stuck with that shit