@ryo @PhenomX6 @amerika @bot @parker Pretty much. There weren't as many people around, but it was quality over quantity. People online were overall a lot more interesting. And more real too, since the internet didn't just mirror the real world, it was escapism.

Anyway, now there's also the great dilemma that the good websites have very few users and can't do anything to get more of them, because if you let outsiders know that they exist, retards that don't care about maintaining reasonable standards of post quality will come in and fuck it all up.

Even being as reluctant as I am to share stuff, I have made that mistake myself, though only with one person. You basically have to know someone for two or three years before sharing anything, and they have to be at least 25, or it will just turn into 4chan, Reddit, or Twitter. It doesn't help that the popular websites got so bad that even the bad users started going elsewhere.

8chan back in the day is an example of that, 4chan kept getting worse and 8chan ended up going downhill in quality too, from everyone going there. The first exodus was fine, that's how it got a userbase, but more kept happening and the quantity went up, but the quality went downhill, and things got stale.

I can even see this on Odysee, when a lot of people suddenly come from YouTube, comments get a lot shittier and I have to make my "don't reply to stupid comments" policy a little more strict so that I don't end up ripping my hair out. Though in that case it seemed to be mostly temporary. Also, the website itself is shit, and apparently is already censoring people, so it will go down sooner than later regardless of user quality. It's a matter of time at this point.