I really thought this was going to be about gamergate and I was ready to just burn down the entire Internet

And they inevitably turn every service into an ad delivery service. Thus, enshitification. Subscription services directly convert the utility of the application into revenue. It will always make a better platform, but it might not scale as well.

XMPP is very underappreciated.

I stopped using 4chan when the probability of getting goddamn CP snuff videos in the browser cache because of a /b/ raid got beyond trivial, so like pretty fucking early on.

Anyone remember a small post-fark forum called bannination?