I'm also glad I got to experience phpBB message boards, justin.tv and a Facebook that was about friends.
But nowadays you get Discord servers with IS propaganda and twitch.tv is full of prostitutes. Facebook is "the feed", scoured by corporations, full of idealized vacation photos and Russian propaganda.
The old days are not coming back and doing nothing will lead to a further deterioration of the internet landscape.
Get off of FB, Twitch and Discord.
There's still choice. My 6 online friends are on signal and they're 5 real people I interact with irl and 1 guy I never met irl.