JA Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
At 13, I joined a Wolfenstein 3d modding forum. 22 years later, my posts are still there - and still searchable. The discussion I had in Discord 2 years ago? Not so much. We chose this. We can choose better. https://blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the-death-of-community-memory/
  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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    4 months ago

    I remember when I was taking Networks in undergrad how the Arpanet, and this new “internet” thing was built to be robust per packet delivery enough to survive a nuclear strike on central infrastructure… now Dish says you can’t Google ABC because corpo drama and it’s just another day…

  • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one
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    4 months ago

    Allow me to translate:

    • someone else ran a forum when the poster was young.
    • someone else paid for that forum for 20 years
    • someone else paid to host op’s teen Wolfenstein posts for 20 years

    So what’s fucking stopping you from doing the same? It’s not expensive. Is it that discord is free and you don’t actually want to see what stupid shit you wrote about a video game 20 years ago? That seems the most likely explanation. If not, be the change. It’s not hard, it’s not expensive, you literally just need to want to do it and read a tutorial maybe.

    As much as the “corps run everything” narrative is, that’s only because people keep using their services.