People/communities owning their own servers was the golden age of multiplayer

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It's not just about the kind of people you'd meet. It was maps too.
Currently there are still a bunch of generic Orange and Trade_Minecraft servers on TF2. Meanwhile, Cyberpunk and Wacky_Races have vanished.
And then in Valve servers, it's only the main game maps.
Still waiting on that third threat