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[QUOTE="MorphedSnowman, post: 18113, member: 3191"] Well, you are right and I had to chew over this a good bit. You know, so far life in general goes I will just ignore this question, becuase it's a huge philosophical topic that I feel I could spend years pondering about and still make little progress. Let's focus on the web for now. The only thing that comes to my head is to imagine what kind of factors there could potentially be for such a change to get a more solid idea of what could be done to nurture them. [SIZE=4][/SIZE] I'll split this in two categories too. First one is about attracting others, second one is about protecting that. So what would be the reason someone would want to "abandon" the mainstream net for something more "exotic"? I think it could be culture, since what you see on these sites is what algorithm shows you, so a place for content and experiences that none of mainstream sites allow to exist is a step in the right direction. These things could be as simple as discussion. It's quite difficult to discuss anything meaningfully online on the big sites because of how easy it is for things to get hidden on there. It could be certain type of videos. NewGrounds was famous for it's animations that you couldn't find anywhere else, and it's even kinda true to this day. Or it's flash games, they were generally of a much higher quality and uniqueness than the rest. Something of that spirit that isn't a copy of the past, but something truly new is a step in the right direction. The part about protecting that is how easy would it be for mainstream net to eat it up and spit out it's own version. Think about something like pictures. It's very easy to just rip pictures from some site and spread them on instagram. Thereby pictures alone just aren't protected from mainstream net in a meaningful way. Although an page that somehow creates an interactive experience with images that [B][SIZE=4]you[/SIZE][/B] need to play with couldn't be easily copied. It would be a pain in the ass for them to add support for so much different things on these big services. Also there's the question that even if someone makes something like that, how do you find it? Because if you make a website and put it online, it will be a ghosttown. The issue of things being able to be discovered in a easy way needs to be solved somehow too. But not much comes to mind about that right now so I'll ignore it. But yeah, these are my rough thoughts that I kinda spat out just now. I feel like the post is commedically long too. It's certainly a difficult topic to think about. What do you think that would be a meaningful reason for someone to go against the mainstream net? [/QUOTE]
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