Y’all, the UK’s law about needing an ID to be on any social media platform over 10,000 users is the canary in the coal mine. Similar laws have already been proposed by US states and other countries. On a long enough timeline, this is coming for us all.
So, with that in mind, I want to get in early with some good old fashioned forum sites. You know, the kind that have no app and don’t need my Fing ID to let me sign up.
Any topic welcome as long as the community is active and strong.
mountainproject.com
fetlife.com
pretty much any communuty dedicated to a specific model of car or motorcycle.
astralcodexten.com is an old school blog that still has a very active comments section.
Yep all the car forms are active. We need to bring back forms. I would like that. And old school chatrooms with no AI or bots. I miss Yahoo chat that also had games you could play with other players. Like Domino’s and Pool.
One of the local dial up BBS’ I used to frequent was a multi line system with chat, they had a game called TeleArena which was basically a text based MMORPG you could play with the other players online. I think I had more fun with that game and another BBS game called Mutants than I have with most games with graphics.
Ugh FetLife has the worst people though. It’s all horny men who don’t understand boundaries.
FetLife is literally the biggest fucking cesspool of humanity on the internet. Its basically just a gateway for predators to find victims.
Source: Was active on it for years, tried to speak out against abusers in the scene, was told “we don’t throw people away”
Honestly, sounds like an oldschool forum to me!