[gethly]

Yeah, i have the same experience.

The problem is that Facebook Groups decimated online forums. Those used to be great for thematic communities but became deserts and I think that whenever someone introduces something they did, whether paid or not, is now treated as spam or something one should pay for instead of discuss it(imagine how much technical talk could be had about a project you made) because the volume of messages became so low that any type of self promotion gets a lot of exposure(imagine that a forum gets 10 new posts per week, your post would then be shown for a quite some time until it would fall off the lists of recent posts) and search bots have time to index it.

FB Groups on the other hand became monetised, despite it breaking FB rules. So any link you post is instantly deleted, and you'll likely be banned, unless you pay for it to the administrator beforehand. It took these admins years to build these groups so they will not risk letting anyone use it to self promote without paying.

It's a total shitshow out there. Don't think it's just you. It's not. The internet just really sucks nowadays.

[rankiwiki]

Yeah, that matches what I’ve been experiencing elsewhere too. It feels like the space for small, exploratory projects to be discussed has shrunk a lot.