Right to free speech doesnt mean every other server needs to accept his content.

I dunno if I speak for everyone else, but all we need are small.communities.

We are not “competing” with anyone or anything.

That’s the root of your issue, and it’s based on a false premise.

Humans are not interchangeable components… that’s a disgusting take, honestly…

Every community I’ve been in can feel through loss in some way, of a member.

This attitude is exactly why you cannot fathom why maybe small instances, ran by volunteers for the community is a viable concept.

Its also why BBSes started their death spiral: people trying to commoditize the community.

Yes. Communities cannot exist without community members.

Thats… literally what happens. Like when the owner of a bar calls it quit, and leaves.

How do ypu think communities “naturally” come and go?

Communities don’t have heary attacks, or get a new child or something…

All communities work like that…

There is no real need for the kind of permanence you think you need.

Imagine if a building could only be a bar, for perpetuity, and nobody opened any other bars, because that first bar existed.

Bars would suck for like… 99.99999% of the human population, huh?

So…

Start alternatives, on a host ypu maintain, and then everything can be ran perfectly how you want it to run

Problem solved.

Same here! Which is a huge reason I actually enjoy lemmy, for the time being. It’s a forum, complete with subforums, and decentralized!

For example: usenet groups are essentially unmoderated

That is highly dependent on the newsgroup. Many newsgroups WERE heavily moderated. The ones in the alt branch were not, generally.

But, say, comp.os.linux? It was very moderated.

Additionally, a couple of projects tried to put a really nice, forum-like UI on top of NNTP, and it worked pretty well. The problem was a lack of uptake, really, because “Well, we have facebook and reddit already!”

One of the “bigger” attempts at this was done when forums were basically dying, and everyone was moving to facebook and reddit, away from forums.

Funny enough, I loved that app, and use it for news rather than Google news

A trap for people isn’t something I’d consider “useful”.

Just like a pedo van offering free food to kids… sure kids get fed, but at what cost?

And without my.comment, fewer hits because users cannot see it, which means less people provide training data.

No single drop feels responsible for the flood.

What gets us there is long term stability.

Grow organically, and they will come.

First, the tech enthusiasts, then tech journos, then normal journos, then normals.

It’s how online spaces grow.

I did, bc reddit locked up my content, and wanted to use it to train a LLM.

Let people ask again, here, in the fediverse.

I literally hate the new reddit UI, as do most peeps I’ve spoken with…

The new reddit UI is designed to push ads, and push premium subs.

We do.

It’s mailto or mime for the scheme. There’s even mbox as a scheme.

Marketing. Bsky got the venture dollars. That’s all.

Woosh! Your point went right over my head there! Hahaha, my bad