WHY WE NEED TO FIGHT FOR THE FORUMS OF THE OLD WEB:
Forums have played a big role in making the world wide web great in the first place. They acted as a melting pot for knowledge and communication between users around the whole world. A whole culture evolved around forums. Not one, many. Forums served a purpose. They still do. Forums are meaningful. Still. Since the breakthrough of social media and platforms like discord, forum usage has been in decline for years now. A lot of forums have died already. We really should make a turn as the internet society as a whole.
What we shall do:
- Start posting to forums regularly again
- Decrease your usage of social media platforms
- Get dumps of forums, (database dumps if possible)
This way we are able to revive forums, melt forums together to megaforums and most valuable, keep the knowledge and timelines available for future generations.
- Get in touch with admins of forums and ask them to support our movement, share post database or restart working on their forum
- Share the word, use our button to display support and link to the movement
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Advantages of forums on the web
- Forums can be well organized, well structured
- Forums are easy to be moderated, mods can curate topics
- Forums are great places for group conversations
- Forums are THE PLACE to discuss about your thoughts and believes
- Forums are THE PLACE to start and organize movements
- Easily indexed by search engines - People can find topics and answers easily
- They can serve both, closed as well as open communities
- Forums strengthen relationships and bonds between human people
- Forums make it easy to share knowledge, tutorials and archive wisdom of generations
Why forums are much better than discord, reddit and quora
- Searchable through major search engines
- The look, forum tree, everything is fully customizable
- No need to pay for cosmetics (banners, badges, profile customization)
- Easier to browse through lots of threads
- Old topics don't get lost
- Often offer great search functionality on their own
- Users can upload and share files of all sorts (not limited to pictures & video)
- Admins themselves own the data
- Admins don't lose access to their forums, they can make up their own TOS
- Admins can take measures against AI crawling and usage of ugc
Forums can guard their userbase against censorship and prosecution
Since more and more countries are acting against the freedom of speech by putting laws in place that makes it easy for them to pursue, track and hunt down individuals that think differently while social media and big tech in general act as willingful servants to make the prosecution of individuals as easy as possible - We as the internet community need to act against these attacks on the freedom of speech. The ones of us that are lucky enough to live in democracies should make use of out voting rights to fight censorship at all costs. And of course do we need to revive the forum culture of the old web in general to fight unfreedom.
- Admins can decide what kind of posts / content is appropriate. No one needs to follow the awkward TOS of big tech companies
- Admins can disable logging of user ips / data and timestamps - Making the prosecution of individuals more difficult
- Admins can make use of the laws of less restrictive countries by hosting the forum in a privacy friendly jurisdiction
- The country an admins lives in makes him less / or more prown to legal actions have privacy focused laws that value the freedom of words.
Fuck the like button!
We shouldn't crave for likes and upvotes like a trained monkey hits the button that releases some food. Fuck those silly two sentences that give you that miserable amount of social media fame. Your content on these platforms serves only the big tech companies. They earn money with the content you create.
We should start to post meaningful content again, content that inspires and helps other people. We should share in-depth tutorials, reports and guides. We should share content that has a real value. We should share knowledge and our believes. We should discuss about every aspect of life making us stronger as mankind in general. We should... No - We have to!
No one should head to ask AI first.
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