[joepie91_]

As somebody who has been involved in the operation of various things in the "shady back alleys" category, I can assure you that they do not have an established place on the internet anymore. It's a constant battle of keeping things online, with pretty much every service provider involved looking for a way to kick you out. You may not see this as an end user, but it is exceedingly difficult to host something that goes outside of the norm.

The idea that the internet is a city might have been true 10 years ago, but it is definitely not true anymore now. The default response to "I need an X" is "just do it on Facebook", and there are entire swaths of content that just don't have a place anymore on the web, "thanks" to ever-increasing enforcement of arbitrary moral guidelines and growing monoculture.

If the internet were to be described as a city, it'd be a gentrified city where most of the artists have long been chased away by ever-increasing rents.