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We need to reclaim the classic web.
Everything has been centralized, all websites look the same, with links to an organization's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and the like. All the meme/community sites are nearly identical, at least in the ways that really matter. Even some of the smaller boards on 4chan, and even the smaller chans, are getting increasingly plagued by these same cancers.
Back then (late 90s/early 00s), there were a ton of sites that seemed largely independent of one another, at least when compared to today. Now everyone spends time on a few monster-traffic sites, and a large portion of the smaller ones still look and feel like each other, and are highly influenced by the monster websites.
What each of you can do to retake the web is to start your own website. Scour the web for interesting people (500-1000), invite them to your private website, and invest time in cultivating a distinct community. Ban anyone who brings in any outside cancer. Sure, some of the stuff from smaller sites will leak out, but if enough people do this, they can't take from everybody, so there will be plenty of sites with distinct culture. But really, what's more important, is that stuff that originated from other websites and the cancerous monster websites doesn't end up on yours.
After you've cultivated a good community, then you can very slowly bring in more people, but I would try to keep the site limit to 5000 distinct users at the absolute most. Hopefully a lot of sites would never even get that high.
In addition, it would be wise if you stopped using monster sites. Boycott youtube, wikipedia, cheezzzzzeburger, twitter, instagram, redddddit, ign, facebook (I know many of you still have one of these, even if under an alias), and yes, even 4chan (though this maintained a certain quality and distinctiveness for something of its size for quite a while, but it too is beyond redemption now).
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Hopefully their influence will dwindle and some of these sites will go the way of myspace. And then with all the private web sites up and taking peoples' time and energy, there won't be a new superpower to be able to have the momentum take it's place that gets its cancerous tentacles in nearly ever corner of the web.
Of course you might have to have someone to be able to keep tabs on normie culture so new stuff you don't recognize doesn't invade your site, but maybe one guy could do this for multiple sites so at little traffic is given to them as possible, as well as being able to keep some of the smaller site culture from overlapping. Definitely encourage your users not to frequent too many sites, and certainly not any of the larger ones.
It'll be a slow and uphill battle, and maybe we won't really make much a difference here, but for too long, we've seen the web we grew up with destroyed by corporate interests and normie scum (not that normies didn't use the internet before, it's just that there was plenty of it and many aspects of it that was off their radar). If nothing else, maybe we can make it better for a small group of like-minded people.
Get to work gentlemen. I believe in you.
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>>36675323
I agree, OP. I actually have my own website, over 800 people. It's not privatized, but it's a niche enough community and the site has strict enough rules to keep away any normie scum. Still, keep finding myself drawn back to /r9k/. Good luck cutting ties OP, but I suspect that, like the rest of us, you're here forever.
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Wow, Cry more, faggot
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>>36675493
Good work
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too much work. sorry OP.
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>>36676236
It's really not that hard. Use open-source
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