>>54433230Or an intranet.
Still, imo, that's just a patchwork measure that still tries to have it's cake and eat it too.
If your setting is gonna have muh isolated regions because of reasons, usually muh meme war, lack of knowledge in general from evolution methods to simple knowledge of which Pokemon is what Pokemon, X region not knowing about Y region regional variants, hoarding of knowledge because everyone loves to larp being in a Wuxia, etc, having an information sharing tool as powerful as the internet be a part of the setting is counter to the whole point.
Actually, I just realized something I hadn't thought about until now. Despite there being so many meme wars how can people not know about the Pokemon from other Regions? You know, the regions they warred with, the Pokemon they fought a war against, that were used against them. And with how paranoid the people who ended up participating on those wars are about a new one starting any second one I wouldn't be able to buy the idea that they wouldn't spread the knowledge of foreign Pokemon just in case.
>>54433282>Why not have an internet firewall?That would work too, but to this day I've yet to find a single fanfic that goes "every region has their own isolated independent internet network and there's nothing global set at all for reasons".
>What are the merits of the other fic hosting sites?Coverage. Awareness.
The more places you post your thing into the more people who will read it.
It's all the same at the end of the day. The thing I like the best about AO3 is being able to put the whole fic in one page instantly. Makes it easy to Control F for keywords to decide if a fic is gonna be cringe from the get-go.
>Do people prefer AO3 or is it some pedo smut dungeon?Kinda both honestly.
What I hear most about AO3 being good for is the tagging system but seeing those blocks of tags of all sorts of random shit is a turn-off and with how people throw so many tags at everything the results become diluted.
