I think this kind of handwringing shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how the internet works.

Everything you’ve ever pushed your eyeballs against on the internet was hosted somewhere. These days its pretty much all in the cloud.

All this team did was write a wrapper to automate the instance creation, which I just happily paid for, because even though I could have figured it out, it wasnt work several hours of my time to do so. And if I did, I still was going to use the same cloud providers this team is routing through.

I just paid to host an instance to do my part to support the fediverse. If you are from the elest team jbenguira hit me up or maybe I’ll hit your lemmy to get some help. Having some issues getting my domain to work and want to make sure I’m doing it right.

Its a good thing. Forums dying and the community moving on is a good thing. Things don’t need to last forever for them to be good, now. I think of it like a cleansing event; like a forest fire or flood.

Something Awful. was a website with a front page that had memes and the ability to comment on them. I think it ended up going in a bad way. I don’t think I’ve been there since the 90s.

And before Fark there were the craigslist forums.

IT feels like the early days of reddit.

Or before that the early days of digg.

Or before that the early days of fark.

Or before that the early days of sa.

And so it goes…