Just a reminder that this was how it always was before. Then people got lazy, people forgot how to RUN a community, and here we are. Moaning that federation is

Just a reminder that this was how it always was before. Then people got lazy, people forgot how to RUN a community, and here we are. Moaning that federation is not decentralisation without even considering running their own instance, and when you suggest that, they turn around and say 'oh it's too hard'... Oh how I miss the times of interest-based forums with ACTUAL moderation, large IRC channels where assholes got kicked and none of this amorphous mass of people and bots producing unmoderated brainrot that then gets turned into AI slop-based timelines optimised for the sole purpose of stimulating people's dopamine receptors until they burn out...