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I saw a great lot of forums decline and evaporate without being hit with any of the ailments you listed. People just lose interest because it is not "fun" enoug

I saw a great lot of forums decline and evaporate without being hit with any of the ailments you listed. People just lose interest because it is not "fun" enough - unlike the social media ragebait.

Bender 7mo ago
Certainly true in some cases. People also migrate as a flock to a new thing and stay if enough of their friends moved if there are enough colorful flashy widgets. I see it more as corporate capture and mass surveillance for sales, marketing, selling trends to governments and many other reasons. Those of us that remained in our little isolated bubbles are also on those platforms and remain connected even if the platforms get too censorious or controlling. People are less afraid of being "cancelled" if they have a place to fall back on.
- anovikov 7mo ago
  Biggest example of it, is Blackberry. It ceased to exist while being a great business tool loved by managers of fat ass companies everywhere - who were more than willing to shell out a lot of cash for Blackberry servers and handsets, so money was never a problem at all, it was a key business tool for F500 corps. It only died out because users BADLY wanted the enshittified iOS experience with IG and the like that Blackberry locked them out of, and begged and lobbied their bosses to switch them over to iPhones for corporate messaging...
  - Bender 7mo ago
    Adding Blackberry was just like a private forum in that it's users data was kept inside the corporation on private servers and outside the view of governments. That is a threat to many third parties that would love to have visibility into that data for a myriad of nefarious reasons. The same switch-over also happened with internal systems moving to Google docs and other centralized monitoring. I would love to see a chaos monkey test of all the big centralized systems going offline to see what breaks.

I saw a great lot of forums decline and evaporate without being hit with any of the ailments you listed. People just lose interest because it is not "fun" enough - unlike the social media ragebait.

Bender 7mo ago

Certainly true in some cases. People also migrate as a flock to a new thing and stay if enough of their friends moved if there are enough colorful flashy widgets. I see it more as corporate capture and mass surveillance for sales, marketing, selling trends to governments and many other reasons. Those of us that remained in our little isolated bubbles are also on those platforms and remain connected even if the platforms get too censorious or controlling. People are less afraid of being "cancelled" if they have a place to fall back on.

anovikov 7mo ago
Biggest example of it, is Blackberry. It ceased to exist while being a great business tool loved by managers of fat ass companies everywhere - who were more than willing to shell out a lot of cash for Blackberry servers and handsets, so money was never a problem at all, it was a key business tool for F500 corps. It only died out because users BADLY wanted the enshittified iOS experience with IG and the like that Blackberry locked them out of, and begged and lobbied their bosses to switch them over to iPhones for corporate messaging...
- Bender 7mo ago
  Adding Blackberry was just like a private forum in that it's users data was kept inside the corporation on private servers and outside the view of governments. That is a threat to many third parties that would love to have visibility into that data for a myriad of nefarious reasons. The same switch-over also happened with internal systems moving to Google docs and other centralized monitoring. I would love to see a chaos monkey test of all the big centralized systems going offline to see what breaks.