These social media ghettos are echo chambers full of total morons anyway.

It’s all jumped the shark...

The only place to go is ‘back’ and people don’t wanna do that because they’re so addicted and desensitized.

The only way to weather what’s coming and enjoy yourself while doing so is to see the big picture and revert to the basic foundational principles.

You’ll see...

It’ll all make sense.

(12-11-2018, 10:49 AM)Trix Wrote: The only way to weather what’s coming and enjoy yourself while doing so is to see the big picture and revert to the basic foundational principles.

So true.

If I were going to operate a video hosting site, I would forbid accounts that are owned or funded by corporations and governments. It would be strictly private citizens hosting their own productions. No music videos, movies, or TV shows unless they're the poster's own work.

Anyone filing a copyright claim would have to prove the poster was violating "fair use" principles. No automatic takedowns unless the poster clearly uploaded copyrighted material verbatim without adding their own critique or commentary. No "three strikes, you're out." The offender would have to show an established history of copyright infringement and blatant disregard for the law to be banned.

There's a new monetization site, SubscribeStar, that claims to be politically neutral. We'll see how that goes. It seems these companies always become authoritarian when they get big enough.

https://www.subscribestar.com/

I think we were naive for ever believing communities as such with free hosting could ever work out...

Now we simply know better.

It’ll never work.

In any form.

No matter how it’s branded.

It’s time we accepted that.

Everyone must have their own sites.

And we’re dealing with a generation of people on the internet who think the whole internet is Facebook and YouTube. They practically don’t even KNOW you can have your own site. LOL.

And those of us who have always strived to have our own all along are just watching this shitshow and facepalming.

Fuck videos...

The days of the internet without videos (pre-YouTube etc.) are unmatched in their entertainment and glory.

That is my true opinion.

(12-11-2018, 02:35 PM)Trix Wrote: I think we were naive for ever believing communities as such with free hosting could ever work out...

True. When we discussed the idea of a video hosting site a long time ago, we concluded that it would be best to leave out the "community" crap and let users embed the videos on their own sites.

The problem with that is, you wouldn't be able to derive income from traffic and advertising on the video hosting site, so you'd have to charge users for the hosting their content in order to pay for the storage and bandwidth. They may as well pay for their own hosting.

(12-11-2018, 02:35 PM)Trix Wrote: Everyone must have their own sites.

And we’re dealing with a generation of people on the internet who think the whole internet is Facebook and YouTube. They practically don’t even KNOW you can have your own site. LOL.

Yes, and when we try to explain to them in detail, step by step, how easy it is to do so, they give a little golf clap and go right back to whining about social media censorship, and "muh Internet bill of rights," and how "we need a new platform" from the evil globalist tech giants. Let's keep trying the same shit that has failed time and time again. Most people really are too stupid to be on the Internet. Thanks, AOL.

(12-11-2018, 02:35 PM)Trix Wrote: The days of the internet without videos (pre-YouTube etc.) are unmatched in their entertainment and glory.

So true. Dialup BBSes, Usenet, and the early Web were the golden age. It was so thrilling to meet people from all over the world, share pirated MP3s, and all that. And you could say any fucking thing you wanted without snowflakes getting their panties in a twist. Good times.

(12-11-2018, 05:42 PM)Guest Wrote: So true. Dialup BBSes, Usenet, and the early Web were the golden age. It was so thrilling to meet people from all over the world, share pirated MP3s, and all that. And you could say any fucking thing you wanted without snowflakes getting their panties in a twist. Good times.

That essence is still what I aim for.

I'm borrowing a few things I've learned from this 'social media ghetto' era of the internet...

And I'm taking them forth into this new and simplified, independent oncoming era.

I feel sorry for people who weren't around in those internet glory days you and I remember...

But, too bad.

Like minds gravitate toward one another no matter what... people promoting free-thought materials of any kind on any of these social media platforms are spinning their wheels.

They're not even useful for getting traffic anymore. They're low quality, all the way around.

And those people who just looove those social media ghettos? Well, the truth is, we don't want them anyway.

Now of course, in no way am I implying that we can ever 'go back' to that "glory days essence"...

What's done is done.

But we can be inspired by it, and we can infuse that essence into what we go forth and create from here.

(12-11-2018, 05:42 PM)Guest Wrote: The problem with that is, you wouldn't be able to derive income from traffic and advertising on the video hosting site, so you'd have to charge users for the hosting their content in order to pay for the storage and bandwidth. They may as well pay for their own hosting.

Advertising has to become independent too.

It should be regular people paying other regular people to put ads on each other's sites.

But something TANGIBLE has to be offered somewhere along the line to get the momentum going, that's my opinion.

This is where things like selling art for example come into play.

It takes money to make money, as they say.

It takes money to keep a site up and running until it actually starts to generate money somehow...



Any way it goes, it's all in the hands of individuals...

And at some point, those individuals should be working together, toward sort of an 'alliance' of independent website owners.

Advertising on each other's sites, selling physical goods, etc.

(12-11-2018, 05:52 PM)Trix Wrote: And at some point, those individuals should be working together, toward sort of an 'alliance' of independent website owners.

Remember Web rings? You put this little navigator code on your pages that linked to other sites with the same kind of content. Users could fast forward and reverse through a shitload of related private sites or visit the master list of sites. Good times!

It's still there!

http://dir.webring.org/rw/

Yahoo! bought it a long time ago, then abandoned it like they abandon all the cool stuff. Looks like it's in private hands now.