Eltu
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Hi everyone!
As I mentioned a couple days back I wanted to make a post on the current state of ToS and its future. But first allow me to quote this post I made a bit under a year ago since it still stands very true:
I am still beyond grateful and amazed at this community, and incredibly happy that it still provides a place for people to come together. And, rest assured, I will always do all that I can to ensure that it stays around for as long as possible.
But let's look a bit more at specifics!
As several of you pointed out, ToS is in many ways representative of an era of the internet that is slowly fading away. This is exactly why it needs to stay around. We have seen independent internet communities being gradually less active, their role being taken up by large social media platforms (Discord, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and so on). I don't think all these services are universally bad - I personally frequent quite a few specific subreddits for instance, and I connect professionally through Twitter - but what's happened is that these large services have started accounting for all online communities.
In my mind this is a sad thing, since all these individual, self-hosted and self-managed internet communities are a huge part of what makes for an open and diverse internet - and there's a certain sense of togetherness that's, if not unique, at least very prominent in these places.
So what does this mean for Tree of Souls? Not as much as it might seem, just that I'm dedicated to to keeping the forums here indefinitely.
As was also pointed out, I think it's good to keep in mind that there probably won't be a huge resurgence of activity when Avatar 2 finally comes around. But that's OK! I'm sure at least a handful of people will drop by once more, and it will make for a wonderful time.
Finally, let me once more thank you all for being here. ToS was and will always be a monumental part of my life and I'm so happy to be a part of it. Oel ngati Kameie.
As I mentioned a couple days back I wanted to make a post on the current state of ToS and its future. But first allow me to quote this post I made a bit under a year ago since it still stands very true:
I am still beyond grateful and amazed at this community, and incredibly happy that it still provides a place for people to come together. And, rest assured, I will always do all that I can to ensure that it stays around for as long as possible.
But let's look a bit more at specifics!
As several of you pointed out, ToS is in many ways representative of an era of the internet that is slowly fading away. This is exactly why it needs to stay around. We have seen independent internet communities being gradually less active, their role being taken up by large social media platforms (Discord, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and so on). I don't think all these services are universally bad - I personally frequent quite a few specific subreddits for instance, and I connect professionally through Twitter - but what's happened is that these large services have started accounting for all online communities.
In my mind this is a sad thing, since all these individual, self-hosted and self-managed internet communities are a huge part of what makes for an open and diverse internet - and there's a certain sense of togetherness that's, if not unique, at least very prominent in these places.
So what does this mean for Tree of Souls? Not as much as it might seem, just that I'm dedicated to to keeping the forums here indefinitely.
As was also pointed out, I think it's good to keep in mind that there probably won't be a huge resurgence of activity when Avatar 2 finally comes around. But that's OK! I'm sure at least a handful of people will drop by once more, and it will make for a wonderful time.
Finally, let me once more thank you all for being here. ToS was and will always be a monumental part of my life and I'm so happy to be a part of it. Oel ngati Kameie.
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