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In my opinion, it's a little bit of both. But I hope you're right, of course
Combination of being against an overly commercialized internet and largely based on GeoCities aesthetics, bit of an emphasis on minimal/non invasive coding as well. The main goal is starting and running your own site rather than maintaining a profile on the big social media platforms. I'd imagine the forum is more aimed at aiding with coding, sharing assets, and express discontent for modern web woes.
The forum, if I understood correctly, is a drop-in replacement for everything that happened on the Discord server. In this case, it will also be used for community projects (e-zine, radio, etc.)
Yeah, when I saw everyone needs to have their pronouns in their profile I got the vibe of the place. The funny thing about pronouns is they are almost useless. In conversation you only hear them in a group setting where the particular person is the topic to use their pronouns instead of name. On the Agora forum (not Agora chat) I rarely refer to people with pronouns because when dozens of people are replying you usually want to make clear who you mean. So having pronouns on your profile next to every post on Yesterweb just seems like a culture thing.
YW mods have already acknowledged they want to make it a large scale movement of some kind:
I wish they got more into specifics of their movement in their thread but it still feels a little vague to me. Like I get and agree with this idea of leaving the big social media sites and learning skills to bolster one's netizenship, but I am unsure why you would need to mobilize such a large number of people. I guess my lingering question is what is the endgame idealized goal of the YesterWeb? What is their metric of success?
I never understood that either, if you're serious about this concept of "old web" then go for something like IRC over Discord. It seems like they were more focused on growing and getting as many people as possible into the group. Better late than never in terms of moving away from Discord.
simple reason: kids too tarded to /msg NickServ, also would all be there like "where r my emojiys???
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I think this is what happened:
"There are too many opportunists, too many people that used the YW for financial or even just social gain. We thought maybe the issue was the discord server-it wasn't. It was a systemic issue."
That's the thing I didn't like about Yesterweb. It feels like they preach stuff but they are still 'safe' in a sort of way. You should make your own website, but host them on Neocities. Talk up the old web, but use Discord as the main platform and refuse to use IRC because of an 'association'. I signed up for the forum a while back and it was quite boring.
Pretty much, I think it grew too big for them to manage and the forum as a way of splitting it off into something more manageable filtered too many people. I got the impression the majority of their members on neocities were the type of person whose webpage was a static page linking to other more active mainstream social media, so not everyone was super engaged to begin with despite having a high headcount.
Except this forum has it's fair share of LGBT users and even communists. I see more of a tendency to divide people into ideological bubbles on the YW forum than I do here. Most here judge the posts on the context of the discussion rather than preconceived notions of what the user's overall alignment is.
Not sure where they're quoting this from, but this just falls into over generalization. Those "nutty conspiracies" have certainly struck a chord given how much some have been covered elsewhere, wouldn't be so quick to dismiss those questioning their surroundings. If one is skeptical of some of the ideas presented here then by all means come and debate it, Agora has always welcomed skeptics, makes things more lively. I guess what perplexes me most is how a group (YW) so critical of capitalism is apprehensive to the idea of questioning the corporate press or government, institutions that are both upheld by and seek to maintain such a system for their own benefit.
If one is unwilling to engage with an opposing perspective on mere principle then one can't just blame other factors like relaxed moderation on a place becoming a "circle jerk," in the end that falls on the individual/group for refusing to debate in good faith. Calling this place "alt-right" is just as poor a use of buzzwords as calling Yesterweb "radical left."
