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The modern internet is absolute cancer, so here's some old-school alternatives to some of the major aspects of the modern web. If you have any others you'd like to mention and discuss, feel free.

Instead of social media and forums, try using Usenet and BBSes. There exists many a BBS to choose from, and you can even create your own. Usenet newsgroups exist for many, many topics, and if you wanna create one (ideally based on a topic with some decent amount of appeal), you can even present your idea to the folks at alt.config and they *may* create a newsgroup for you.

Instead of blogging on sites like Tumblr, Myspace, and all those sites with period blood smeared all over them, try running a Gopherspace. It's text-only and uncluttered, and there's no JavaShit to bog down the experience.

Instead of GitHub, host all your code on an FTP site. And instead of posting videos to JewTube, you can make the videos downloadable on that same FTP site, along with anything else you wanna offer up.

Finally, instead of insecure messaging applications, use encrypted email.
>>15628 (OP) 
Your points are correct, but you might want to update your copypasta. You mention Tumblr, Myspace, and Jewtube as the modern web, when it's really Substack, BlueSky, and TikTok.  It's like listening to a boomer complain about these new T.V. shows and when you ask him which ones he hates he says Space Patrol and The Fatman.
Also, you say old-school alternatives like FTP, Gopher, and 'encryption', but why not newer stuff like Zeronet, Gemini, and mailinabox?
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>>15628 (OP) 
>And instead of posting videos to JewTube, you can make the videos downloadable on that same FTP site
How about peertube? Granted, I don't have any first hand experience with it, but the basic idea is that anyone watching the video also uploads it to anyone else watching the same time. Also, you could share your videos as normal torrent files too.
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>>15629
>>15631
Yeah, those are all perfectly valid choices, and I even use the Fediverse, Gemini, and occasionally ZeroNet, I just especially like the more "retro" old-school networks/protocols. 

I should've also mentioned various "dark web" protocols like I2P, Freenet, and Tor. Oh well, hindsight's always 20-20.

I'd especially love to see a text-based chansite that you can run from a terminal browser and browse over I2P.
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>>15629
Zeronet sucks, I tried running it after cuckflare blocked 8ch.net, but the web interface is just awful and slow.
Anyway OP forgot about IRC, finger, MUDs (and related shit), and PBEM.
>>15633
You could go really old school and talk about sneakernet dead drops.

There used to be a wide community across 4chan/etc. that used a browser add-on that allowed steganographic comms. It was pretty neat as when it was at the height of its popularity, there was essentially a completely uncensored "second channel" of comms going on on all the chans. Over time, it was basically used entirely by Russians.
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>>15640
Test w/PassLok. This isn't the extension I remember. The one I remember was completely integrated. It'd make a little box in the bottom-right of the screen pop up with the side-channel discussions going on in a thread.
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>>15642
There was something like that to come out of Lainchan awhile back.
Oh, I just remembered after taking a fat shit. It was called DesuDesuTalk or DesuDesuChat. Something like that.
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>>15644
Yeah, that was it!  DDT!

Alright, let's give it a shot...
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Hrm, one more test...
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>>15647
>>15648
So does it work with this board software?
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>>15652
No. I gave up after that. It doesn't look like it posts the image. :/
>>15628 (OP) 
Here's an old school alternative...anyone still play any MU*s in 2025?
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>>15659
Even if nobody does, anyone who wants to can still start one up.
List of known MUDs here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20090820043750/http://geocities.com/mud_gallery/
>>15628 (OP) 
Is there something like Neocities/Angelfire/Geocities only for free gopher site hosting?
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