I feel all the feels you are feeling. I am fighting my own disappointment about how it could be, versus how it is, but I am also looking at external factors in the world between 6 years ago and now and what has happened across the world in between, its actually a surprise people are still using the internet at all. Huge percentages are in countries with wars right now, others are just happy to be back outside after lockdown years, and everyone is also getting sick of more and more evil ON the web and also evil that is BUILDING the current internet.
AI, evil big tech company human data miners, spam, scams and an ever weakening level of content aimed at the idiocrasy that is spreading rampantly in newer generations, not the intellectual stronghold it was in the 90s and early 2000s.
The end of an era. But for some of us, there is hope in these small enclaves, for me, hope for a community where I can have discussions like this one. Which are getting rarer and rarer to find in low attention span world of the modern internet.
Thanks for your vote, as long as this system has electricity, Witty and I will be near it and trying to keep the lights on for the rest of us, so stop by anytime, "retiring" or not.