Its really sad more than anything. The modern march of technology has been to take what used to be open standard technologies used by the average computer user

Its really sad more than anything. The modern march of technology has been to take what used to be open standard technologies used by the average computer user at the time, privatise them, wall up the gardens, and lock people in. Now you have people beholden to reddit and discord instead of irc and a self hosted web forum. It reminds me of those quick change oil places: an entire industry with serious real estate holdings exists solely because most people have no clue how to unscrew three things and pour in oil themselves. Its an example of yet another industry with a financial incentive towards widespread ignorance.