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2018-10-07 at 7:27 PM UTCI recently visited a few forums I haven't posted on for years. Forums concerning obscure subjects most people don't know about. There was almost no activity to speak of; in fact one of the most recent threads was about how dead the place was. People pointed out that other forums concerning fringe hobbies, weird video games, etc were also dead.
Basically, a majority of forums are dying. And everyone on that forum was looking for an answer as to why. Most people blamed Twitter and Instagram, but this is just a cop-out. The real reason forums are dying is because the developed world countries are aging rapidly. For 50 years, fertility in the developed world has declined every 10 years, meaning each generation is smaller than the previous.
The fertility decline was particularly great among educated middle class-upper middle class females; the same women who are most likely to produce children who do things like posting on forums. Most of the people who created and participated these forums are late baby boomers-Gen X. These people eventually gdt consumed by the wage cuck lifestyle and stop doing things like running and posting on forums.
Remember Jeff Hunter? Everyone is exploring a conspiracy as to why he stopped running a web forum. An equally likely explanation is that he was a middle aged male who had to move on in life, for whatever reason. Could he have been hit particularly hard by the 2008-2009 financial crisis, --which affected his age cohort the hardest--, and which seemed to strike at the exact time when he shut the forum down?
Did Jeff Hunter even have any kids? Do you guys? Probably, the majority of us do not. Late 2000s Totse and Zoklet were the peak era for web forum activity. That was the period in history where the largest number of relevant-age people with similar interests and intelligence were converging on web forums for discussing things in any detail. In every web forum I encounter the quality of discussion peaks around the years 2004-2012.
The "first world" countries are being engulfed in the ruins of dead shopping plazas, abandoned suburbs, empty playgrounds and inactive web forums. All of this can be traced back to the low birth rate.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-10-07 at 7:31 PM UTCI was expecting to see "low t" SOMEWHEREThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-10-07 at 7:32 PM UTCI think government(s) regulations is the reason. I remember the good ole days of Yahoo chats, why did they quit?
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2018-10-07 at 8:59 PM UTCniggerThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-10-07 at 9:05 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jim I recently visited a few forums I haven't posted on for years. Forums concerning obscure subjects most people don't know about. There was almost no activity to speak of; in fact one of the most recent threads was about how dead the place was. People pointed out that other forums concerning fringe hobbies, weird video games, etc were also dead.
Basically, a majority of forums are dying. And everyone on that forum was looking for an answer as to why. Most people blamed Twitter and Instagram, but this is just a cop-out. The real reason forums are dying is because the developed world countries are aging rapidly. For 50 years, fertility in the developed world has declined every 10 years, meaning each generation is smaller than the previous.
The fertility decline was particularly great among educated middle class-upper middle class females; the same women who are most likely to produce children who do things like posting on forums. Most of the people who created and participated these forums are late baby boomers-Gen X. These people eventually gdt consumed by the wage cuck lifestyle and stop doing things like running and posting on forums.
Remember Jeff Hunter? Everyone is exploring a conspiracy as to why he stopped running a web forum. An equally likely explanation is that he was a middle aged male who had to move on in life, for whatever reason. Could he have been hit particularly hard by the 2008-2009 financial crisis, –which affected his age cohort the hardest–, and which seemed to strike at the exact time when he shut the forum down?
Did Jeff Hunter even have any kids? Do you guys? Probably, the majority of us do not. Late 2000s Totse and Zoklet were the peak era for web forum activity. That was the period in history where the largest number of relevant-age people with similar interests and intelligence were converging on web forums for discussing things in any detail. In every web forum I encounter the quality of discussion peaks around the years 2004-2012.
The "first world" countries are being engulfed in the ruins of dead shopping plazas, abandoned suburbs, empty playgrounds and inactive web forums. All of this can be traced back to the low birth rate.
didnt everybody moved to facebook and youtube ?
i mean you could easily facebook or youtube the exact same fringe whatever you used to find on totse in those days on facebook or youtube today.
people are just too lazy to type and read these days. why type and read walls of texts when you can do shows and tells, and be a celebrety,
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2018-10-07 at 9:29 PM UTCread this earlier which was very interesting
Father of World Wide Web Launches Radical Startup to Take Back the Internet from Google & Facebook
A revolutionary startup was recently announced by the "father of the world wide web" which plans to radically decentralize the internet to give it back to the people.
“For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told Vanity Fair last month. “I was devastated” he said while going through a litany of harmful and dangerous developments of the past three decades of the web.
That’s why “the Father of the World Wide Web” has launched a start-up that intends to end the dominance of Facebook, Google, and Amazon, while in the process letting individuals take back control of their own data.
Berners-Lee’s new online platform and company Inrupt is being described as a “personal online data store,” or pod, where everything from messages, music, contacts or other personal data will be stored in one place overseen by the user instead of an array of platforms and apps run by corporations seeking to profit off personal information. The project seeks “personal empowerment through data” and aims to “take back” the web, according to company statements.
The man who created the world wide web by implementing the first ever successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the internet in 1989 lamented that his creation has been abused by powerful entities for everything mass surveillance to fake news to psychological manipulation to corporations commodifying individuals’ information.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Image via Wikimedia Commons
But he’s long been at work on a new project to take the web back, described in depth by the business technology magazine Fast Company:
This week, Berners-Lee will launch, Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, in stealth mode, for the past nine months. Backed by Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader movement afoot, among developers around the world, to decentralize the web and take back power from the forces that have profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon.
“We have to do it now,” Berners-Lee said of the newly launched project. “It’s a historical moment.” He identified the main impetus behind his recent announcement that he’ll be going on sabbatical from his research professor post at MIT to work full-time on the project as the recent revelation that Facebook allowed political operatives to gain access to some 50 million users’ private data.
At MIT Berners-Lee has for years led a team on designing and building a decentralized web platform called ‘Solid’ — which will underlie the Inrupt platform. The Inrupt venture will serve as users’ first access to the new Soliddecentralized web:
If all goes as planned, Inrupt will be to Solid what Netscape once was for many first-time users of the web: an easy way in. And like with Netscape, Berners-Lee hopes Inrupt will be just the first of many companies to emerge from Solid.
“I have been imagining this for a very long time,” says Berners-Lee.
As described on the Solid and Inrupt websites the new platform will allow users to have complete control over their information ‘pods’ (an acronym for “personal online data store”) — it is only they who will decide whether outside apps and sites will be granted access to it, and to what extent.
Unlike Facebook or Twitter where all user information ultimately resides in centralized data centers and servers under control of the companies, applications on Inrupt will compete for users based on the services they can offer, and only the users can grant these apps “views” into their data, making personal data instantly portable between similar applications.
“The main enhancement is that the web becomes a collaborative read-write space, passing control from owners of a server, to the users of that system. The Solid specification provides this functionality,” the Solid website says.
Visual of the Inrupt prototype platform
Berners-Lee explained to Fast Company one example currently under development that could radically changed a popular product that has been prone to overstepping privacy boundaries and compromising data:
For example, one idea Berners-Lee is currently working on is a way to create a decentralized version of Alexa, Amazon’s increasingly ubiquitous digital assistant. He calls it Charlie. Unlike with Alexa, on Charlie people would own all their data. That means they could trust Charlie with, for example, health records, children’s school events, or financial records. That is the kind of machine Berners-Lee hopes will spring up all over Solid to flip the power dynamics of the web from corporation to individuals.
With the weekend launch of Inrupt, developers across the globe this week will be invited to begin building their own decentralized apps through the Inrupt site. As its popularity grows the company will move forward to raise more funds, though it’s currently backed by a venture capital firm.
Yet as his latest interview notes, “his plans could impact billion-dollar business models that profit off of control over data. It’s not likely that the big powers of the web will give up control without a fight.”
When this major potential disruptor was noted, Berners-Lee shot back: “We are not talking to Facebook and Google about whether or not to introduce a complete change where all their business models are completely upended overnight. We are not asking their permission.”
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/world-wide-web-father-decentralize-internet/
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2018-10-07 at 9:37 PM UTCI hope dude has military like security.
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2018-10-07 at 10:47 PM UTC
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny didnt everybody moved to facebook and youtube ?
i mean you could easily facebook or youtube the exact same fringe whatever you used to find on totse in those days on facebook or youtube today.
people are just too lazy to type and read these days. why type and read walls of texts when you can do shows and tells, and be a celebrety,
real or imagined.
Facebook is dead, most active profiles are bots now. The internet in first world countries is dying for the most part.
https://www.inc.com/dakota-shane/research-shows-users-are-leaving-facebook-in-droves-heres-what-it-means-for-you.html -
2018-10-07 at 11:30 PM UTCnigger
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2018-10-08 at 12:15 AM UTC
Originally posted by Flatulant_bomb I think government(s) regulations is the reason. I remember the good ole days of Yahoo chats, why did they quit?
That's what I was telling people. Yahoo was about 20 years ago? at least when it started.
Facebook came along 10 years ago.. as if it was the first of it's kind. or Myspace even.
Yahoo was great. Had all the cool games. multiple camera chat rooms that you could control and no Admin to kick people out. Which may seem like a bad thing, but the Admins have only made rooms more like a clique. the downfall was the sexbots shitting up the place after Yahoo was one of the first flirt chat sites. I'm sure some people even met women or men on it.
Then it suddenly went away and only recently came back.
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2018-10-08 at 2:06 AM UTCSZHEOYOAAH!
actually i don't because i'm an og
the lady at 37 seconds is shaking her head like, "what a bunch of retards!" -
2018-10-08 at 3:01 AM UTC
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2018-10-08 at 3:17 AM UTC
Originally posted by Jim Facebook is dead, most active profiles are bots now. The internet in first world countries is dying for the most part.
https://www.inc.com/dakota-shane/research-shows-users-are-leaving-facebook-in-droves-heres-what-it-means-for-you.html
lol, not true at all.
1 - one of the thing i hate most about articles and opinion pieces are those that include the line 'Here's what it means for you'. its like the author already brazenly declare that you cant think and needed thoughts to be made for you.
2 - the first two icon after the title are facebook and twitter. and nothing else.
all these delete facebook thing is just a fad, like metoo thing. they will return like a good maschosist back into their gimp box soon.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-10-08 at 5:32 AM UTCAnyone thats not in their 20's or younger can get fucked in my opinion.
Y'all fuckers ruined the earth before I was even born. Once all the boomers die we will thrive without the need of currency or resources and you will ask;
"But who will pump my gas and bag my groceries?"
To that I say your gas and vehicle are destroying the earth and causing global warming and your survival hinders on supply and demand of corporations instead of what you can actually produce with your own labor. -
2018-10-08 at 10:44 AM UTCon one hand, it's true, the internet is fucking dead, it's done jim.
on the OTHER HAND
the internet, this terrible child that we are and that we birthed, mother, father, and midwife all at once, this thing has absolutely fucked up the world. our stupid shitposts have strong reverberations. they've "won" the internet but its such a Pyrrhic fucking victory. you will notice that its harder and harder to find good places to discussion but the same people are EVERYWHERE. I bump into you, every sort of weirdo and freak from this or that fringe site, we all show up at the same places at the same time. Maybe because sewage always flows down to the lowest point but maybe you know, we're not stuck in here with them...they're stuck in here with us.
They're going to (already) instituting China tier censorship and bullshit. But fuck that, this is not China. We will take this fucking thing down with us. Not that it needs any help, everything is so insecure and fragile it should fall apart with a slight push.
The internet created some of the most subversive and well educated people in this history of the world and they think they're winning because they can shadowban people.
lmao c'mon guys let's get real, we have been fucking with the MODS for a long time they are not going to stop us now
oh no they're cutting off my paypiggie payments
cut the fat, lame faggots can only try to control the forces of history that roll over them like a tsunami, they do not surfThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-10-08 at 11:42 AM UTClol@ birth rate
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2018-10-08 at 6:46 PM UTChttps://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-08/marketers-increasingly-hesitant-deploy-ad-dollars-facebook-deutsche
The good news is that incremental ad dollars shifting away from core Facebook is not new, and have largely been flowing to Instagram resulting in little or no impact to Facebook as a whole. However, in an unexpected shift, the bank is now not seeing all the departing core Facebook dollars flow to Instagram.
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2018-10-08 at 6:56 PM UTCGen x were fucking assholes (much like the userbase here) but maaan do I miss those losers.
There is nothing that comes close to the early 00s.
Being a 12 year old on TOTSE with a super active community.
It wasn't just that though it was the mindset.
The early 00s were the final years of Americana.
I can't relate to a bunch of effeminate bronies and normies who discovered anime through Netflix and Crunchyroll with their overly PC worldview and personality.
I miss the fuck you narcissism and misanthropy of the good old days.
Now you can't even have a preference for Asian anything because it's "racial fetishism", you can't play that game because it's white racist and patriarchal not that there are even any decent games worth playing anymore, no can't go to the movies because it's the same deal.
All my favorite bands and musicians are old now.
My generation doesn't have it in them to continue the helm of the greats.
Have you fucking even listened to the dogshit net labels and the indie scene is churning out now?
I really just want to die at this point.
Teens these days are like ... A super domesticated and cucked bizarro recreation of an alternate reality of the 20s - 50s aesthetics (Tumblr/Snapchat/etc fashion styles) it's like they all went back in time and stole those styles because they were too brain-dead to come up with anything new.
The 2010s has been the worst era of my life. -
2018-10-08 at 6:59 PM UTC
Originally posted by PrettyHateMachine Gen x were fucking assholes (much like the userbase here) but maaan do I miss those losers.
There is nothing that comes close to the early 00s.
Being a 12 year old on TOTSE with a super active community.
It wasn't just that though it was the mindset.
The early 00s were the final years of Americana.
I can't relate to a bunch of effeminate bronies and normies who discovered anime through Netflix and Crunchyroll with their overly PC worldview and personality.
I miss the fuck you narcissism and misanthropy of the good old days.
Now you can't even have a preference for Asian anything because it's "racial fetishism", you can't play that game because it's white racist and patriarchal not that there are even any decent games worth playing anymore, no can't go to the movies because it's the same deal.
All my favorite bands and musicians are old now.
My generation doesn't have it in them to continue the helm of the greats.
Have you fucking even listened to the dogshit net labels and the indie scene is churning out now?
I really just want to die at this point.
Teens these days are like … A super domesticated and cucked bizarro recreation of an alternate reality of the 20s - 50s aesthetics (Tumblr/Snapchat/etc fashion styles) it's like they all went back in time and stole those styles because they were too brain-dead to come up with anything new.
The 2010s has been the worst era of my life.
lmao you've wrapped up all the angst and terrible bullshit that's happened into the internet with your disgusting fetish for alien looking gook whores what is wrong with you, are you an NPC? -
2018-10-08 at 7:09 PM UTC
Originally posted by Jim https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-08/marketers-increasingly-hesitant-deploy-ad-dollars-facebook-deutsche
will never know how these data were gathered.
