There’s also a mismatch in incentive. Before you would become a webmaster and foster a community with your friends, now even if you try, your community will jus

There’s also a mismatch in incentive. Before you would become a webmaster and foster a community with your friends, now even if you try, your community will just be botted, content scraped, and rehosted on bigger platforms that have giant conglomerates behind them. An example of this is that Fandom site which is abhorrent but has ruined many fan sites due to alternatives being squeezed out. You have to effectively create your own closed off platform to avoid those shortcomings like discord so might as well just use it (or Matrix etc).