@djlink

We need something like webrings on steroids to match the ease of use in finding different communities on reddit and discord.

@djlink maybe it's because they are walled garden, they have value and thus have finanvial support?

@djlink It's all great, until the company goes out of business. And that's the problem, because these are controlled by a single entity. If these companies go, all those communities go. Just ask the people who actually used Google+.

@djlink The #Lemmy network (ActivityPub) while mostly populated by people from Reddit, has a lot of potential to fill the niche that forums and Reddit used to, but don't anymore.

Like the Mastodon network, it is both small and interconnected at the same time.

@djlink At least reddit is (mostly) viewable by anyone...

Too many places anymore only post information/updates/news on platforms which require a login to view their ""public"" posts.

@djlink don’t you worry. This data is and will be compiled into beautiful looking somewhat AI. Why use an index if you can spend tokens on hilucinating machines.

@djlink @fennix I am part of a large (hundreds of participants, dozens of contributors) open source project, and we use Discord in place of a forum. My job is documentation. I can tell you first hand how much is lost in ephemeral conversations found with those tools.

@djlink I said it in 2010 and I say it again: Nobody wants to be on 30 forums with 30 logins.
Reddit works because you can be on 1000 forums with 1 login.

Thats also why mastodon sucks a lot.

@djlink phpbb is still around right?

@djlink How do we feel about the Discourse platform? To me it feels like forums with modern features.

@djlink Reddit had become annoying, now from what I have heard, advertisements are even worse. I kind of miss a few groups I followed, like Linux and a few others.

@djlink this may be the wrong place to ask but why does Reddit come up as the top source for all my google searches now?

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Dear Mr Amador

Is there any actual data that compares how well forums and discord/reddit work for the users you have in mind ?

@djlink you can spin up a discord community or a subreddit for free quite easily, whereas forums take technical knowledge, money, and energy for maintenance and increased moderation and administration, which is not many of us have. it's unfortunate, but it is what it is

@djlink "We're sorry, but this invite has expired" trying to download FOSS abandonware from less than five years ago

@djlink It is problematic but so are forums existing, as you mention. Unless it is StackOverflow or a blog, various forums I used just don't exist anymore. Also finding anything in a search engine is problematic these days. It is kind of a lose-lose-lose across the board.

@djlink @didier Every Discord could appoint a secretary to record all the highlights and post them on the web?

@djlink social networking sites that collect eyes beat sites that don't because they aren't held to account for the harms they cause, aggregate, and magnify. While small forums *are* held to account. Big social media is a *policy* decision

@djlink

I'm not sure I would miss forums, because they are most often a place where people wind each other up to do concern trolling (ie, gamergate).

@djlink
Just yesterday someone announced a new discord "server" for artists and I just thought. No thanks, I don't want to use an AI infested software made by nft fanboys and especially not for art.