Reddit has killed internet discussion forums. I've never liked Reddit. Before Reddit, it was common for webmasters to host their own internet forums. In the 80s and 90s with BBS (Bulletin Board Systems), web hosts would host internet forums with their phone modem and you had to dial-in to the forum's phone number in order to connect.

The difficulty with hosting your own forum is that you have to learn how to code. And then you need a way to get your forum indexed on search engines (Google being the largest one) and advertise your forum so that the target audience knows that it exists. Advertising your forum on other forums usually gets you banned from that forum for "spam."

Why do you think the left is obsessed with de-platforming the right? They want to make it difficult for the target audience to find these kinds of communities.

As someone who has hosted my own business site, which doesn't contain any controversial content, you have to learn how to do SEO (search engine optimization). Which is difficult enough as it is to get right. And if your content is controversial, Google's algorithm might nerf you.

Reddit has killed internet discussion forums. I've never liked Reddit. Before Reddit, it was common for webmasters to host their own internet forums. In the 80s and 90s with BBS (Bulletin Board Systems), web hosts would host internet forums with their phone modem and you had to dial-in to the forum's phone number in order to connect.

The difficulty with hosting your own forum is that you have to learn how to code. And then you need a way to get your forum indexed on search engines (Google being the largest one) and advertise your forum so that the target audience knows that it exists. Advertising your forum on other forums usually gets you banned from that forum for "spam."

Why do you think the left is obsessed with de-platforming the right? They want to make it difficult for the target audience to find these kinds of communities.