01-09-2025, 01:40 PM
So... this is gonna be a thread that I think will be interesting to start but I think given the current climate of social media and what not, it'd be worth it to bring up this topic.
So... RECENTLY... Meta had made the announcement that they were going to get rid of fact checkers. Not only that, but another thing that got people pissed was that Meta announced that they were going to Ai created accounts on the platform... Only for it to fail miserably.
So here's the thing. Putting aside how Zuckerberg has clearly made a shift to the right and pissing off anyone who doesn't follow Republican ideology on the political side of things (Because that's not really the core of what's pissing people off) many people have come out of the wood work to announce that they were leaving facebook and instagram, even threads, and many people on Bluesky were discussing the possibility of the BBS forums coming back into style.
PERSONALLY FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCES, I've already been contemplating deleting my facebook for a year and a half now because of how Meta basically took that long to delete an old account of mine that got hacked only for me and a few of my own friends to rally and pester them to delete it when it should have been taken care of when said account initially got hacked back in July of 2023. I only found out it got deleted recently thanks to a friend of mine from college updating me after the hacker tried contacting them. I've chosen to follow through with the decision and I'm already making my moves to make sure I can still touch base with the communities and people I care about through other means.
Instagram... I haven't fully decided on what I'm going to do with that yet. I may end up deleting it down the road depending on how things go but I am shifting anything I do to Bluesky for the most part and plan on finishing up my own portfolio site. Personally I've also been going to the Newgrounds BBS forums more often lately.
Don't even get me started on the failure that is X AKA Elon's Shitter.
So.... I'm not expecting this thread to take off but I do want to hear from other users on here. Do you think that recent events with Meta may change the internet landscape and BBS forums could potentially make a comeback? I know that this community has been more active on the discord as of late, which is fine. But I'm wondering how this could potentially impact TVGR forums if there really ends up being a mass exodus from Meta Platforms and people decide to take to other means of social media.
So... RECENTLY... Meta had made the announcement that they were going to get rid of fact checkers. Not only that, but another thing that got people pissed was that Meta announced that they were going to Ai created accounts on the platform... Only for it to fail miserably.
So here's the thing. Putting aside how Zuckerberg has clearly made a shift to the right and pissing off anyone who doesn't follow Republican ideology on the political side of things (Because that's not really the core of what's pissing people off) many people have come out of the wood work to announce that they were leaving facebook and instagram, even threads, and many people on Bluesky were discussing the possibility of the BBS forums coming back into style.
PERSONALLY FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCES, I've already been contemplating deleting my facebook for a year and a half now because of how Meta basically took that long to delete an old account of mine that got hacked only for me and a few of my own friends to rally and pester them to delete it when it should have been taken care of when said account initially got hacked back in July of 2023. I only found out it got deleted recently thanks to a friend of mine from college updating me after the hacker tried contacting them. I've chosen to follow through with the decision and I'm already making my moves to make sure I can still touch base with the communities and people I care about through other means.
Instagram... I haven't fully decided on what I'm going to do with that yet. I may end up deleting it down the road depending on how things go but I am shifting anything I do to Bluesky for the most part and plan on finishing up my own portfolio site. Personally I've also been going to the Newgrounds BBS forums more often lately.
Don't even get me started on the failure that is X AKA Elon's Shitter.
So.... I'm not expecting this thread to take off but I do want to hear from other users on here. Do you think that recent events with Meta may change the internet landscape and BBS forums could potentially make a comeback? I know that this community has been more active on the discord as of late, which is fine. But I'm wondering how this could potentially impact TVGR forums if there really ends up being a mass exodus from Meta Platforms and people decide to take to other means of social media.