Idiot Inside
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2025
It really is, the internet use to be more individualistic and for the past decade or so it's slowly devolved into centralised collectivism. You had an active forum for just about any niche subject, some of which I use to browse back in the day are still up but sadly dead. Even the original social media platforms like MySpace would let you customise your own profile with CSS, something you never see anymore.Its the end of a internet era. No matter how much you want to shit on them for a terrible antiquated UI, there's something charming about it. There was nothing charming about their retarded janny rules they kept implementing. They didn't do anything to stop spam. /pol/ was completely unusable for years after 2017 - I'd assumed the government got it.
I'm not one of those "dead internet" faggots who say it like it's as trendy as as the Backrooms or PCP, but the internet just feels so...boring and sanitized now. It's not about lack of "toxicity" which is still everywhere in abundance, but rather it feels like everything is for everybody and there's no more hardcore niche discussion among the hardcore fans of anything with a self-moderating energy.
I miss the old forums of the internet where people could actually talk about their interests without a bunch of newfag normalniggers shitting up the place. I miss personalized accounts and color no matter how gaudy. I miss game forums like the old League of Legends forums. I hated when they switched to the fast-moving reddit style before deleting the forums altogether for their shitty reddit.
The internet used to be a magical place, now it's just 5 boring websites every day. It's part enshitification, part contraction. The anonymous wild west is over. What we have now is boring vanity projects.
Kiwifarms and a few niche forums I still use are one of the last vestiges of what used to be. Its not looking good out there.