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adjl posted...

It didn't kill them. It just provided an alternative that people liked better. As much as that's unfortunate for those that preferred the old communities that haven't been able to sustain themselves, that's just the nature of any service industry: People will leave one service if another one serves their needs better.

Are there issues inherent in consolidating the Internet into mega-sites that hold near-monopolies on whatever service they provide? Absolutely. We're seeing that with Twitter now, actually: Musk running it into the ground is causing problems for those that have come to rely on it and he's killing it faster than a competitor can take its place. But the demand is there and I expect several similar services will be competing to fill that vacuum in short order.

We didn't migrate to this because people liked it better, we migrated to this because it was cheaper than running and maintaining your own platform. If companies didn't rely on it, people wouldn't flock to it.