[robocat]

> Perhaps these constant restrictions will finally spur us to create our own spaces again

We had forums using forum software but moderating the spam got too hard. If you create your own space using any common software platform then you'll be pwned (a la PHP-Nuke et al). I presume even pure custom web pages would end in tears these days (DoS complaints seem to be a more recent reason; also Bot form submission is pretty good at being bad).

[ArcHound]

It's not that bad. Yes, you need to make a couple of good sysadmin decisions, but it's very much possible to operate a small web.

Source: my VPS-hosted site was up through all of the recent AWS, Cloudflare and Azure outages.